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For those who have seen this episode in syndication you might have seen the version entitled “The Private World of Darkness.” Serling’s original title was “Eye of the Beholder” and its meaning was the basic moral lesson to be taken from the story. Watch The Twilight Zone - Season 2, Episode 6 - The Eye of the Beholder: A young woman is forced to undergo experimental treatments in an attempt to make her appear 'normal.'
The Twilight Zone may have some crazy situations. Then again, these are some crazy times. With social distancing and self-quarantining in full force, some Netflix subscribers turned to this series for a break from coronavirus (COVID-19) news and we totally get it.Thankfully, there are five seasons of this series on the streaming platform. Here are some of the best episodes of The Twilight Zone to binge-watch on Netflix.Season 1, Episode 22It’s only in times of crisis that the monsters come out. When a strange alien encounter takes out the electricity of one neighborhood, the residents try to find the reason behind their bad luck.
One kid suggests that these aliens don’t want them to leave. The accusations and presumptions only snowball from there.Season 1, Episode 8Maybe a little too on-the-nose, this episode tells the story of one man who loves to read but never has enough time. When an explosion leaves him alone with some of his favorite books, the former bank clerk thinks he can read to his heart’s content. But, of course, this is the Twilight Zone, and things don’t go as planned.Season 5, Episode 3If you’re afraid of flying, you’re not alone. For one gentleman, that fear is taken to new heights when a mysterious creature begins destroying the wing of his plane.
The problem is every time he tries to tell someone, the monster disappears. Is the creature real to begin with, or is he just going crazy?Season 2, Episode 6Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But, when society demands conformity, one woman finds herself desperate to change her physical appearance. She undergoes surgery and, when her face hasn’t changed, she tries to escape her fate of living in a village with “her own kind.”(As an added bonus: this is one of Ariana Grande’s favorite episodes. She even dressed as one character for Halloween.)Season 3, Episode 14A ballet dancer, a major, a clown, a tramp, and a bagpipe player find themselves trapped in a kind of cylindrical room. No one remembers how they got there, why they got there, or even how to escape. One of the characters takes it upon himself to escape — it’s only then viewers realize who these characters really are.Season 2, Episode 7As a personal favorite, this episode begs the question of whether or not a person would want to know their future.
How far would you go to learn about yourself? One couple’s dumb luck at a diner quickly turns into an obsession.Episodes of the original Twilight Zone series are available for streaming on Netflix. Other spooky shows, including The Haunting of Hill House and American Horror Story, are available with a Netflix subscription.
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Rod Serling: Suspended in time and space for a moment, your introduction to Miss Janet Tyler, who lives in a very private world of darkness. A universe whose dimensions are the size, thickness, length of the swath of bandages that cover her face. In a moment we will go back into this room, and also in a moment we will look under those bandages. Keeping in mind of course that we are not to be surprised by what we see, for this isn't just a hospital, and this patient 307 is not just a woman. This happens to be the Twilight Zone, and Miss Janet Tyler, with you, is about to enter it.
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Air date: November 11, 1960
A woman, Janet Tyler, is confined in a hospital, her face wrapped in bandages as she awaits the outcome of an operation. This operation, the last allowed after multiple experimental treatments for her condition, is the only thing that might allow her to live in normal society, rather than being sent to a village of 'freaks'.
The Tropes of the Beholder:
- Ambiguous Situation: Rod Serling's ending narration raises the questions of this world and why it is, before saying the answers make no difference.
- An Aesop: Beauty is relative, and we should accept people as they are.
- Bandaged Face: Miss Tyler, until the end of the episode.
- Big Brother Is Watching: When the doctor wonders aloud why Janet Tyler and the others with her deformity can't simply be allowed to be different, the nurse warns him to be careful as he is speaking treason.
- Bittersweet Ending: Janet is unsuccessful in getting her face fixed. But is allowed to live in a community of people who also share her 'deformity'. Where, presumably at least, she'll be happy.
- Crapsack World: The pig-people live in some kind of fascist state where the Leader goes on rants about how there is only one standard for behavior and everyone must conform to it. Anyone who doesn't fit the Leader's appearance standards gets banished to distant villages for 'freaks'. We hear him rant about 'glorious conformity'. Say what you will about American beauty standards, at least we don't drive people out for falling short. And if all that isn't bad enough, the doctor makes a reference to the 'extermination of undesirables' and raises at least the possibility that this might happen to Janet.
- Dramatic Drop: The doctor drops his scissors as he says 'no change at all!' following Janet's unveiling.
- Emerging from the Shadows: The doctors do this when they reveal the difference in beauty standards.
- The Faceless: Everyone (excluding Rod Serling) until the last few minutes.
- Foreshadowing:
- The fact that it's carefully filmed to not show the doctor and nurses' faces suggests something's being hidden about their looks.
- Along with Janet's bandages making it look like her lip has an overhang (much like what the 'normal' people turn out to have), she flat out says she never wanted to look like a pig. Remember that, in this world, 'looking like a pig' means looking like a regular human being...
- I Am Not Pretty: Janet remembers such things as hearing a child scream at seeing her face, and when she sees that the operation has failed, she bursts into tears.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Janet Tyler has had 10 previous surgeries over the years to try and fix her face. The episode concerns the last one she's allowed to have before being sent away to a community. She tells the nurse that she never wanted to be beautiful, only for people not to scream when they looked at her.
- Magic Plastic Surgery: Inverted. Janet's face stays beautiful no matter how many times they try to alter it.
- Mars-and-Venus Gender Contrast: While all the 'normal' faces look like pigs (to us, anyways), all of the male faces are biased to the right while all the females are to the left.
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Leader is based on Adolf Hitler. In his speech, he continually stresses the importance of ensuring 'glorious conformity' and abiding by a single norm. He says that all that is different must be cut out like a cancerous filth as differences weaken the state.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Miss Tyler's face isn't actually revealed till the end of the episode, but everyone keeps talking about how horrible it is.
- Persecution Flip: Looking beautiful is horrifying in this world.
- The Reveal: Janet is strikingly beautiful — it's everyone else who is ugly. From our perspective, anyway.
- Scenery Censor: When the nurse enters the doctor's office, her face is hidden by a desk lamp. For the rest of that scene the doctor's face is hidden by placing the camera directly behind the nurse.
- Title Drop: Near the end of the episode, Walter Smith, a representative from the 'freak' community, tells Janet that there is a very old saying: 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.'
- Tomato Surprise: One of the most famous examples of this trope. As it turns out, Janet is actually conventionally beautiful. To us, anyway. In this world, she's as disfigured and hideous as we perceive the 'normal' doctors and staff. And, when she meets Mr. Smith, who will take her to the community of people like her, she has a minor freak-out, just like she described children reacting to her.
- Wham Shot:
- After we're told Janet's last surgery had no effect, we finally get to see her face... and it's that of a human's...
- As Janet has a Freak Out over continuing to look 'ugly', the doctor has the lights turned on and turns to a nurse to ask for the sedative needle... revealing he looks like a pig.
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Rod Serling: Now the questions that come to mind: 'Where is this place and when is it?' 'What kind of world where ugliness is the norm and beauty the deviation from that norm?' You want an answer? The answer is it doesn't make any difference because the old saying happens to be true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In this year or a hundred years hence. On this planet or wherever there is human life, perhaps out amongst the stars. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Lesson to be learned in the Twilight Zone.
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