Panicked buyers are emptying supermarket shelves and stocking up on guns and ammo. A man in Maine said armed neighbors prevented him from leaving his home because they believe he’s infected. People have attacked Asian-Americans in public, blaming them for the pandemic. We can already see signs of that happening now in America. People sometimes turn on each other when confronted by a common threat. How ‘good White people’ derail racial progress.A war hero who was a stranger in his own land.Two enemies discover a ‘higher call’ in battle.Democrats are on the verge of repeating a voting rights blunder that led to the rise of Jim Crow.Conservatives actually love critical race theory – when they turn the subject to ‘oppressed White people’.People scoff, but as night approaches and more inexplicable events occur, they focus their suspicions on an eccentric neighbor whose car suddenly starts. People feel trapped in their neighborhood because they can’t leave.Ī boy suggests there’s been an invasion by aliens who have infiltrated Maple Street and are indistinguishable from humans.
But then there’s a roar and a flash of light, and everyone on Maple Street suddenly loses power. The episode begins with a cheery Saturday in suburbia, with the sound of children’s laughter and ice cream trucks. And they show us how not to act during this pandemic. But there are some eerie parallels between what happened on Maple Street and what’s going on across America today. It’s been 60 years since that episode aired.
The twilight zone the fear series#
“People who have never seen the series – you say to them, ‘I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone,’ and they know what you’re talking about.” “One of the themes of the show was disorientation, the idea that the ground beneath our feet may not be as firm as we once thought,” says Nicholas Parisi, author of “Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination.” But perhaps no episode of Serling’s celebrated show captures so well what so many Americans are experiencing now – and how grim life could quickly get if people aren’t careful.Įmpty shelves in a supermarket on March 20, 2020. Part of the genius of Rod Serling, the “Twilight Zone’s” creator, is that he depicts how people react to fear and paranoia in ways that remain timeless. The residents of Maple Street suddenly see sides of their neighbors that shock them. The power goes out and rumors spread of an alien invasion. The episode, titled “ The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” examines what happens to a leafy suburban neighborhood when it’s suddenly hit with an unseen menace.
On March 4, 1960, it aired a classic episode that’s a cautionary tale about how social order can quickly break down when an unseen threat causes fear to go viral. If life during the Covid-19 pandemic makes it seem like you’ve entered “The Twilight Zone,” that seminal sci-fi series about dread and paranoia, than you’re more right than you realize. Neighbors start seeing one another as threats. An invisible enemy brings life to a halt.
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