Will is the author of the little-read books Secure Immaturity: A Nostalgia-Crushing Journey Through Film and Obsessive Compulsive: Poetry Formed From Chaos. Will is a film critic at 25YL but also specializes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the occasional horror review. Will loves his hometown Buccaneers and lives in Phoenix, AZ, USA with his two daughters.
This is the episode we should have seen coming; the episode that a series with the name Jordan Peele attached to it would produce. And even though the episode is not written or directed by Peele himself, his fingerprints of genre manipulation and subversion are all over it. And thus, like Get Out and Us, […] More
I hesitate to use the word “finally” but with “The Blue Scorpion”, the new Twilight Zone reboot has finally found the perfect balance in merging social commentary and compelling drama into a cohesive whole. Though there have been excellent episodes in the past, such as “Replay”, which tackled topics of systemic racism, and “Not All […] More
While trying to come up with an angle for this week’s episode of The Twilight Zone, titled “Point of Origin,” all I could do was sigh. Thoughts ran through my head, ideas came out in bullet points, but ultimately, it all led to me sitting back in my chair, arms on my head, and sighing. […] More
“Tonight, Annie Miller found herself in the center of a mysterious and violent epidemic. What she encountered was no material disease but rather a plague of conscious. One that gave men permission to ignore decency, consent, and fear. And tonight, all it took was a few innocuous little rocks to turn men into monsters…here, in […] More
The first five episodes of the new Twilight Zone have stayed primarily Earthbound and metaphorical, examining myriad topics such as ambition, paranoia, systemic racism, and gaslighting, to name a few. The sixth episode takes us into outer space, far away from our familiar planet, and probes a concept much more insular and literal than the […] More
“Society is a fragile ecosystem,” says The Narrator (Jordan Peele) at the conclusion of the fifth episode of the new Twilight Zone. “Razzle and dazzle people with the right lies, and eventually they’ll go blind to the madness right in front of their faces.” And thus ends a truly haunting, reality-twisting Twilight Zone episode that […] More
Despite some mixed results between critics and viewers, I’ve been a champion of The Twilight Zone reboot so far. The premiere episode, “The Comedian”, was a well written and tense introduction while “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet” and “Replay” were atmospheric and innovative with their use of technology and social commentary in their narratives. The fourth […] More
The first two episodes of the new Twilight Zone used spooky, high-concept ideas to create a lot of tension and fun “what-will-happen-next” scenarios. However, those first two episodes had stakes that only affected the specific characters contained in the episode. The third episode released, “Replay,” still uses these concepts but extends the stakes from the […] More
The second episode of the new Twilight Zone, “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet,” takes a much different approach than its premiere “The Comedian” did. Not only is it 18 minutes shorter, but it’s also the first episode of this current Twilight Zone run to directly reference a seminal entry in the original series: the William Shatner […] More
Everyone knows what The Twilight Zone is, even if some have never even seen an episode of the seminal television show. As with pop-cultural landmarks such as Star Trek, Star Wars, or Seinfeld (just to name a few), the familiar tones of “do dee doo doo, do dee doo doo, do dee doo doo” are […] More
Not simply content with dominating the theatrical box office, the Disney owned Marvel Studios has slowly released information over the last few months about potential new mini-series that exist within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the MCU) that would play exclusively on Disney’s yet-unreleased new streaming service Disney+. Reports from September and October of 2018 seemed […] More
A pilot can make or break a show and, if it’s not so great, it can turn off any viewer from watching the rest of the series. Join 25YL as we take a deep dive into TV pilots—the good and the bad—in our joint Perfect Pilots and Power Through the Pilot series. This week, join […] More
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