2023 Twilight Zone Marathon SYFY Pre-New Year's Eve morning block

 There is always a discussion on what season is the best in regards to Twilight Zone. I still think the first season has the most memorable, classic episodes. Of course, I've well documented my rationale on the blog as to why countless times. I mentioned "The Lonely" in my previous post, so that is left back there, but Twilight Zone sure had its share of assholes. in "Time Enough at Last", Henry Beamis just wants to read. Let the guy read, for goodness sake. The wife sure cucks oh Henry. ordering him around, discarding his poetry, disregarding his affinity for words. The bank boss sure smiles at the thought of Henry being deprived of his books, "the print". In "What You Need", Mr. Renard (I laughed at Serling's narration regarding his "carrying a chip on his shoulder the side of the national debt...imagine the chip he would have in 2023!!!) cannot be content that his life was saved by Pedott, the "peddlar" thanks to the scissors...or even the inky pen that led to a $250 payday for a particular horse. Mr. Renard wanted more, and more, and more. He'd be willing to pretty much beat "what he needs" out of Pedott...except for the shoes. And Arch Hammer uses his uncanny facial alteration by mental telepathy to trick and swindle...until the wrong face comes across a grieving father in "The Four of Us Are Dying". Or Office Corey, immediately insubordinate and argumentative, fighting his remaining astronauts for what water they have, willing to kill in order to survive, seemingly unbalanced for someone who should have taken quite a few psyche evaluations before ever getting into a spaceship or rocket of any kind in "I Shot an Arrow into the Air". Carling -- suspicious of Sturka from the get-go, as they leave the weapons factory, hangs around to spy on him and rocket pilot, Riden -- spends "Third from the Sun" on alert expecting the spaceship to be used by co-worker, Sturka. Lots of TZ dirtbags who get their due one way or the other.

8:00am – The Lonely

8:30am – Time Enough At Last

9:00am – Perchance to Dream (poor Edward Hall seems doomed from the moment we see him, whether awake or asleep, it seems he's haunted to close his eyes and never wake up)

9:30am – Judgment Night (for years and years, I would check on the status morbidly of Nehemiah Persoff to see if one of our last survivors of that era of Hollywood was still with us. The actor hung on until 2022, age the ripe ole age of 102!!! What casting by Serling for the Jewish Persoff as a tormented Nazi sub commander having to relive what his victims on the Glasgow suffered. His own hell)

10:00am – And When the Sky Was Opened

10:30am – What You Need

11:00am – The Four of Us Are Dying

11:30am -- Third from the Sun

12:00pm -- I Shot an Arrow into the Air