![]() ![]() ![]() The film from director Andrew Patterson, which is now streaming on Prime Video, is set in the 1950s over the course of one night in a small town, as two teenagers explore the mystery of strange noises transmitted across radio signals. You can see The Twilight Zone influence in Amazon Studios’ latest feature, The Vast of Night. From The X-Files, to The Simpsons, Black Mirror, Fringe, The Mist, Ex Machina, Her (the list goes on, and on), Rod Serling’s anthology series has a permanence the writer himself didn’t anticipate-and is frequently considered one of the greatest TV shows of all time. Its cautionary tales of dark irony and serendipity continue to influence popular media. Running for five seasons, from October 1959 until June 1964, The Twilight Zone helped legitimize sci-fi as a serious genre on television. Once audiences had crossed over into that realm between science and superstition their minds-and television storytelling-were permanently altered. When Rod Serling first invited viewers into The Twilight Zone, his dimension of sight, sound, and a land of wondrous imagination 60 years ago, there was no looking back.
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