This was complete utter disaster of an episode and while I haven't finished the whole season. This is hands down the worst episode ever for the season. Where do I even start okay the fact the meteors affect only males and make them toxic. Great job with the clear message and agenda to paint men as the villains. But not only is that sexist on that front also to women by making them damsels in distress. Great job on whoever wrote this trashy episode that fails in every way. I don't care if I spoiled it trust me it's not worth watching.
If I were to rewrite this episode I would have kept the meteor thing and removed the dumbass mansplaining/woke part. Instead this meteor amplifies a person's dark primal self regardless of gender. You would establish characters with minor toxic things about them. Then when the meteor virus kicks in everyone is in chaos because of their dark selves. Fights ensue with families and friends and lovers. This would have been a far better and interesting premise than this crap. What I like about this premise is that it's like that one episode of classic TTZ where everyone is freaking out over no electricity. But with a modern twist and kinda exploring the same thing of everyone against each other. While yes not entirely original it's far better than a sexist virus.
For those curious, this is what the episode boils down to.
As it turns out, the meteorites are not the cause of men being violent, evil assholes in the episode. It is just a placebo that for reasons unknown made them all believe they could do whatever they wanted. The end of the episode has a kid say that "there is no cure" because there is no commonality. He mentions having chosen to embrace the anger near the end but stopped and it was all his choice, not a reaction to the meteorite in his back pocket. The final shot before Jordan Peele appears is a soldier telling Amy (main character) that she should smile more and that she would look better if she did, to which she defiantly says, "No." I'd bet $100 feminists who watch this cheered at that as if it's some "empowering" moment or some other bullshit.
Outside of that, this episode just does not feel like an episode of The Twilight Zone. If anything, it felt like a Purge movie. It was enjoyable until the in-your-face "all men are evil by choice" at the end, but as far as feeling like it is part of this series it fails.
Review by Jitse LemmensBlockedParent2019-05-10T20:16:35Z
A wise woman once said: "A guy like you should wear a warning - It's dangerous-I'm falling... I'm a dick ted to you don't you know that you're toxic?"
I'm sticking with my theory that the last episode of this season will wrap everything up as being a parody of reality or something like that. An episode of the writersroom of the Twilight Zone 2019 creating all these... stories in order to make a point and failing miserably at it, suddenly realising they themselves have created the Twilight Zone in their reality... our reality. And that we now live in the Twilight Zone due to all this propaganda instead of the "real world".
I didn't find this episode as annoying as the rest of 'm... even IF I am of the male type but it was once again a way too obvious tale without any nuance. Unlike other movies where a certain group of people suddenly go berserk this one was handled with extreme comedic effect. Hell, all men were attacking eachother, guess it would have been too harsh to see some actual male on female violence or rape. Can't go TOO far can we Mr.Peele?! No that would be wrong to show that.
In a way it's utterly fascinating to attempt to get into but I find it very hard to understand the mindset the creators and everyone else involved (or the people defending these mediocre stories).
Next week: The "remember that we're all immigrants!" episode