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Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone is worth the return trip

#JordanPeele #TwilightZone #RodSerling  #CBS #CBSAllAccess Though we still use its title as shorthand for the bizarre, dystopian times in which we live, a reboot of  The Twilight Zone  is a dicey proposition. Rod Serling’s classic genre-spanning anthology series has long been a standard-bearer for suspenseful storytelling suffused with social commentary—so long, in fact, that it’s already been reimagined on three previous occasions, including two TV revivals two decades apart and a 1983 feature film from Steven Spielberg, George Miller, John Landis, and Joe Dante. Try as they might, none of those iterations ever recaptured the unnerving magic of the original, not even when CBS, home to Serling’s series, took another stab at it in the ’80s.  Black Mirror   is a worthy enough successor, though its focus is a bit more narrow (mostly techno-nightmares) and its outlook far bleaker. Despite practically being embedded in the public consciousness, for TV creators and filmmakers,  The Twi