Anthology
Anthology TV series, where each episode, or perhaps each season, is a distinct story
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The Twilight Zone: “Twenty Two” Is the Number of Nightmares
Near the start of The Twilight Zone‘s second season, after CBS had informed the production team that they were well over budget, it was decided that six episodes of the show would be shot on videotape in a matter similar to that of a live drama, then later transferred onto 16mm film for future syndication. […] More
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The Twilight Zone: “The Obsolete Man”
“You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one.” – Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone, “The Obsolete Man” Originally, I […] More
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Larks & Recs: Yellowjackets and The Mortuary Collection
Welcome to What’s the Buzz, where members of our staff provide you with recommendations on a weekly basis. Each week a rotating cast of writers will offer their recommendations based on things they have discovered. They won’t always be new to the world, but they’ll be new to us, or we hope new to you. […] More
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Loops, Disintegrating: Grouper — Shade
Even when a record is made up of material recorded over the last 15 years, Grouper finds a way to make it something new. Shade isn’t the first anthology-style release in the Grouper catalog; this approach may flash as lazy on the surface (and this may not be entirely unfounded), but the work speaks for […] More
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The Premise S1E5 Offers a Transcendent “Butt Plug” (Season Finale)
The following contains spoilers for The Premise S1E5, “Butt Plug,” the Season 1 finale For its season finale, The Premise offers us a “Butt Plug” and whereas I questioned the decision to kick off the series with an episode that attempted to combine a sexual theme with a deeper question of justice in an outlandish […] More
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The Premise S1E4: “The Commenter” — Are You Listening to Yourself?
The following contains spoilers for The Premise S1E4, “The Commenter” Four episodes in I find myself pondering a bit what The Premise is up to overall. There is a similarity between “The Commenter” and the previous episodes of the season that is actually a little difficult to pin down. Each story is playing with aspects […] More
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The Premise S1E3: “The Ballad of Jesse Wheeler”
The following contains spoilers for The Premise S1E3, “The Ballad of Jesse Wheeler” After Abbi (Kaitlyn Dever) gives the best valedictorian speech ever at the end of The Premise S1E3, we may well wonder: was she telling the truth? But the strength of “The Ballad of Jesse Wheeler” lies in the fact that it truly […] More
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The Premise Premieres with a “Social Justice Sex Tape” and a “Moment of Silence”
The following contains spoilers for The Premise S1E1, “Social Justice Sex Tape,” and S1E2, “Moment of Silence” An anthology television show presents an inherent risk. Rather than one continuing story that sucks you in and can compel you to keep going even when it drags, a show like The Premise presents a different story each […] More
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The Twilight Zone, Burgess Meredith, and the Paradox of Reading
Burgess Meredith is best known to audiences as Mickey, the hardscrabble gym owner/boxing trainer in Rocky, but I’ll always remember him first for two of his four appearances on the iconic original Twilight Zone series: “Time Enough at Last” (S1E8) and “The Obsolete Man” (S2E29). These two episodes are absolute classics of the original series, […] More
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: “Special Delivery” (S5E10)
Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. We’re going to look at Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and more specifically, the Ray Bradbury-penned episode, “Special Delivery.” The 1950s can be considered the golden age of television anthology series, particularly for the science fiction, horror, and mystery genres. One can hardly think of that era of television without conjuring images […] More
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Amazing Stories’ “Mirror, Mirror”: Scorsese’s Fever Dream Fable
Anthology series are all the rage now; Shudder has Creepshow, CBS rebooted Twilight Zone (again), Hulu started Monsterland, even Quibi has 50 States of Fright. Last year, AppleTV+ and Steven Spielberg brought Amazing Stories back to TV, reprieving the NBC series by giving it a new opportunity and home. Today’s Episode of the Week, “Mirror, […] More
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Room 104 S4E12 Recap and Analysis: “Generations” (Series Finale)
Room 104 S4E12 “Generations” (directed by Sydney Fleischmann and written by Julian Wass) brings things to an end with either lilies (white) or golden daffodils, but whatever happens after the frame turns to black hardly matters. Is this the end, or will there be another year? At least with regard to Room 104, the answer […] More
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