Happy New Year from the Scarecrow Blogspot!

Jackie (Joe Mantell) has a little discussion with himself.

I don't remember watching this one but I found a 2011 review on my IMDb account just the same. I got home after a fun family New Year's Eve and a tiresome work day, having only caught a bit of the end of The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine and bits and pieces of Walking Distance early December 31st. I'll be playing catch-up January 2nd, not because I have to as much as want to. I got home at the tail end of The Man in the Bottle, which isn't an episode I'm that wild and crazy for but Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room is now on my list of sleepers worth noting for a more in depth review this year at some point, perhaps one of my first true Twilight Zone write-ups for 2020. Clever storytelling device, where Jackie, a nervy, nail-biting hood, has a long come-to-Jesus meeting with himself. There is that reflection of who Jackie wants to be: a stronger, more confident, fed-up version that is done with being a patsy, some sweaty, lousy, minuscule landfill that has a limited future. Two different characterizations from Mantell makes for quite an acting showcase. It much like the next episode Syfy showed in their marathon, A Thing About Machines, with an incorrigible Hadyn as a crude, belligerent, volatile machine-hating grouch, the type with never a good thing to say about anything or anybody, is an episode best suited for the lateness of the hour. I was, however, a bit surprised Syfy opted to leave Walking Distance in the early morning of New Year's Eve. It is highly regarded by many TZ fans I know. I think it is certainly primetime worthy. But Haydn hurling chairs into televisions and telephones at the floor might always be better suited at 1:30 in the morning.