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The first season of The Twilight Zone reboot has come to an end and I couldn’t have been more shocked with how this episode turned out. What I originally thought was going to be an episode about Seth Rogen writing stories that would alter the world was something so much more and had very little Seth Rogen.
This episode started off just like any other Twilight Zone episode. Seth Rogen has been trying to get a novel started but can’t seem to come up with one idea to start the book. He eventually comes across the idea to start his book out during an apocalypse on Earth. His wife, played by Betty Gabriel, comes home to Rogen wanting to celebrate that he knows how he wants to start his book. Once he opens his curtains, it is revealed that he is living in an apocalyptic world that he just started writing. Jordan Peele enters the episode to talk about the upcoming events, which I was all aboard for, but it quickly takes a meta turn.
It is revealed that Rogen, Peele, and Gabriel are on the set of The Twilight Zone and they were filming the last episode. Zazie Beetz plays a staff writer named Sophie, who writes Peele’s openings. Peele isn’t happy with his opening and would like for Sophie to rewrite it. After many different attempts, she comes up with a perfect opening for the host. After the opening is filmed, a crew member pulls Sophie aside to ask her who appeared in a library scene of the last episode. The actor is too blurry, but Sophie has no idea who it is.
It is hard to discuss how the episode played out after Sophie realizes that the Blurryman has had a part in each episode of the Twilight Zone reboot so far, but no one seems to know who it is. The Blurryman is determined to speak with Sophie, but nobody is paying attention to Sophie. It’s like she doesn’t even exist. Is she in the Twilight Zone herself? That is an important question for Sophie, who grew up loving the original Twilight Zone with Rod Serling. At a young age, Sophie had a hard time balancing the art of The Twilight Zone with her social life. That translated into her career as a writer for The Twilight Zone, where she neglected relationships of her own.
The important message of art vs. entertainment played a role in the episode as some people considered The Twilight Zone to be pure entertainment, but others, like Sophie considered it be art since it provided messages throughout. As the episode progressed, Sophie was trying to understand the message the Blurryman was trying to give her, since she knew how the episodes were structured.
The ending of this episode is something I did not see coming. I usually can guess what the twist of each episode is going to be, but this episode’s ending truly caught me by surprise. The twist connects the whole season and wraps it up in a true Twilight Zone fashion. The episode was a nod to classic episodes like ‘Time Enough at Last’ as well as the reboot episodes. I couldn’t have been happier with how this episode turned and now I am so excited for Season 2.
P.S: I know this review is vague when it comes to the plot and importance of the Blurryman, but if I spoiled it for you, you wouldn’t be as surprised as I was with this episode. Trust me, go into the episode not knowing much!
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