SYFY TZ Marathon - Eye of the Beholder

 "Eye of the Beholder" is just a keystone of The Twilight Zone. I still remember when I first saw this episode. That initial reaction as a teenager, the impact of what beauty and ugliness is, reversed and how the episode protects that twist all the way through, the ingenuity of the camera work, the makeup of the doctor, nurses, and staff, and the religious and cultural leader of this group while Maxine Stuart's agonizing young woman in bandages kvetches about her physical "deformity", the eleven procedures (all failures) attempted to fix the face in order to conform with the society of this place. I don't think it has lost its ability to land. Beauty and the desire to attain it in order to "fit in", to procure whatever procedure is needed to be accepted. It's a staple in the evening, to me. I'm guessing even if the lineup wasn't SYFY, this episode is too much an institution of the TZ not to be featured in prime time.



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