'The Twilight Zone': An Analysis Of The Twilight Zone

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The show I chose to watch for this assignment was The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone is a science-fiction horror anthology television series that first aired in 1959. The series ran for five seasons, with 156 episodes in total, on CBS with it being ended in 1964. The television series was created by Rod Serling, who served as the executive producer and writer for the show. The show was known featured many young actors who became famous later on in the later years. The show is about different unrelated situations of people finding themselves involved with unsettling and unusually events such as isolation or aliens. At the end of every episode, it tells the moral of the story and features a twist in the end. The first episode I watch was the …show more content…
By making assumptions, I think the series’ purpose is to make the American society to reflect on themselves as the show teaches the morals and depicted the American society at the time. During the 50s, the Cold War was still going on. People were afraid of communism and were pointing fingers at everyone who looked suspicious. The Twilight Zone was perfect at showing the issues that was going on in the American society. I remembered there was one episode of The Twilight Zone I had watched in Junior High as a class. There were meteors crashing into Earth and strange things are happening. The whole neighborhood started to blame each other for the unusual things happening. Then everyone went crazy and violently attacking each other. There were actual aliens watching the whole neighborhood at a distance hill controlling everything that was going on. I find it amusing how everything went collapsing downhill. This began to make sense to me how the Americans reacted during the Cold War. Everyone was afraid and wanted to have something blame just like the Salem Witch trials (McCarthyism at the time). Basically the show depicted McCarthyism going on in the
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