Welcome to the finale of Season 2!! Time has flown by since we started recording this podcast, and we'd like to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who listens and especially everyone who has reached out to us to recommend an episode or share their thoughts on the show.

We're finishing off the season with a CLASSIC ep - Season One, Episode 2: One for the Angels. This one's a sweet and sentimental meditation on mortality, love, and the things that really matter. Join us for historical personifications of the Reaper, Ed Wynn Trivia, and meta-theories about the character of Death in the Twilight Zone extended universe.

Referenced in the Episode:

Scottie Dog in One for the Angels at 3:22

And at 19:31 in Nothing in the Dark

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The Hindsight Zone is written and produced by Olivia Sterne and Suzy Beller. The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling and is not our intellectual property.

Intro/Outro music and narration by Aaron Ussery

Cover art by Suzy Beller

"You see? No shock. No... engulfment. No tearing asunder. What you feared would come like an explosion, is like a whisper. What you thought was the end, the beginning."

Like many great TZ episodes, Nothing in the Dark contains equal measures of emotional poignancy and existential terror. Our coverage touches on our own thoughts about aging as one of us nears the big 3-0 (guess which one!), a dramatic reading from Robert Redford's Wikipedia page, and an account of the 60's Sci-Fi beef between Rod Serling and Ray Bradbury.

Referenced in the Episode

The Twilight Zone Vortex's review

Did the Creator of the Twilight Zone Plagiarize Ray Bradbury? - Literary Hub

Why Did Sci-fi Legend Ray Bradbury Only Write One Episode of The Twilight Zone? - SyFy

Death and the Maiden by Ray Bradbury - Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Next Week on The Hindsight Zone: Season One, Episode 2 - One for the Angels

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The Hindsight Zone is written and produced by Olivia Sterne and Suzy Beller. The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling and is not our intellectual property.

Intro/Outro music and narration by Aaron Ussery

Cover art by Suzy Beller

"Where's that idiot, Poole?"

"Here, Sir."

We both have very fond memories of watching Season 2, Episode 16, A Penny for Your Thoughts, as kids - but does this goofy comedy episode hold up? As we endeavor to answer this question, we also get into 1960s celebrity gossip, racehorse names, and the horrors of workplace misogyny.

Referenced in the episode:

Tuesday Weld!

Twilight Zone Vortex's review of A Penny for Your Thoughts

Next Week on The Hindsight Zone: Season 3, Episode 16: Nothing in the Dark

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The Hindsight Zone is written and produced by Olivia Sterne and Suzy Beller. The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling and is not our intellectual property.

Intro/Outro music and narration by Aaron Ussery

Cover art by Suzy Beller

"You go away now, Sandy."

Inspired by a listener suggestion, this week we're watching Season 5, Episode 15 - The Long Morrow. Atmospheric and tragic, with a classic TZ twist ending, this one's a gem that we had both sort of forgotten about. Digressions include: suspended animation, our deep and abiding love for Mariette Hartley, Gilmore Girls.

Referenced in the episode:

Mariette Hartley in the Star Trek episode "All Our Yesterdays"

Twilight Zone Vortex's Review of "The Long Morrow"

If you want us to cover your favorite episode, reach out at [email protected]!

Next week on The Hindsight Zone: Season 2, Episode 16: A Penny for your Thoughts

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The Hindsight Zone is written and produced by Olivia Sterne and Suzy Beller. The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling and is not our intellectual property.

Intro/Outro music and narration by Aaron Ussery

Cover art by Suzy Beller

"While there are men, there can be no peace"

This week, we're covering Season 1, Episode 20: Elegy. This one's a mixed bag, featuring a suspenseful and creepy first half followed by a frankly ridiculous conclusion. Digressions include: the phenomenon of actors trying to stand still on the Twilight Zone, whimsical old men in midcentury media, and how we'd like our bodies posed in a taxidermy-wish-fulfillment-cemetery situation.

Referenced in the episode:

Elegy, the short story by Charles Beaumont upon which this episode is based

The Twilight Zone Vortex's review of this episode

Next Week on The Hindsight Zone: Season 5, Episode 15: The Long Morrow

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The Hindsight Zone is written and produced by Olivia Sterne and Suzy Beller. The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling and is not our intellectual property.

Intro/Outro music and narration by Aaron Ussery

Cover art by Suzy Beller

"It is NOT a connection! It's a MAN!"

This week we're covering Season 5, Episode 19: Night Call. Despite its simple plot, this episode is visually and thematically rich, as well as atmospheric and genuinely scary! Our coverage includes some history of the telephone, some musings on aging and death, and a number of comparisons to Sorry, Right Number (also published as Long Distance Call), the short story upon which the episode was based.

Referenced in the episode:

Fears of Old Age, Cultural Representations of Elders and Narrative Twists of Aging in Four Horror Episodes of the Twilight Zone by Marta Miquel-Baldellou

Next Week on The Hindsight Zone: Season 1, Episode 20: Elegy

"Don't paint the sun anymore!"

This week we tapped our good friend, indie musician Christa Knickerbocker, to talks to us about Season 3, EPisode 10 - The Midnight Sun. This episode is a study in slow dread, endless suffering, and the looming threat of nuclear annihilation (with an added layer of climate anxiety for the 21st century listener!), but somehow we still find the strength to giggle as we unpack it.

Want more Christa? Follow her and stream her music here!!

Check out her debut EP, Running in Slow Motion, when it comes out everywhere April 3rd!

Next Week on The Hindsight Zone: Season 5, Episode 19 - Night Call

"It's just a napkin holder in a little cafe in Ridgeview, Ohio!"

This week we're excited to be covering one of the Twilight Zone's more subtle and psychological offerings - Season Two, Episode 7: Nick of Time. This episode inspired us to examine our own superstitiousness (or lack thereof), do a little light research into fortune telling machines of the twentieth century, and reflect on the many charms of one William Shatner.

Referenced in the Episode

Check out The Verbal Fortune-Teller and Princess Doraldina

Shadow & Substance's coverage of this episode

Next Week on The Hindsight Zone: Season 3, Episode 10: The Midnight Sun

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The Hindsight Zone is written and produced by Olivia Sterne and Suzy Beller. The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling and is not our intellectual property.

Intro/Outro music and narration by Aaron Ussery

Cover art by Suzy Beller

"So long, Hercules!"

This week we're tackling an episode out of one of the wackier regions of the Twilight Zone: Season 2, Episode 19: Mr. Dingle the Strong. Our discussion explores sports, the dubious quality of comedic Twilight Zone episodes in general (and this one in particular), and speculation as to what that 2-headed Martian might be hiding under his big metal suit.

Referenced in the Episode

Need more Dingle? Check out The View From the Junkyard's review of this episode

O'Toole From Moscow , by Rod Serling, produced for radio by WVXU!!

Next Week on The Hindsight Zone: Season 2, Episode 7: Nick of Time

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The Hindsight Zone is written and produced by Olivia Sterne and Suzy Beller. The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling and is not our intellectual property.

Intro/Outro music and narration by Aaron Ussery

Cover art by Suzy Beller

"No change - no change at all!"

Eye of the Beholder ranks as an all-time favorite among fans of the Twilight Zone, so we're thrilled to get a chance to discuss it this week on pod. We're talking about production history, fascist aesthetics, and the debate surrounding what the moral of this episode really is. Peel off your bandages and come join us!

Referenced in the Episode:

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-twilight-zone-eye-of-the-beholder-makeup-was-inspired-by-the-time-machine

Next Week on The Hindsight Zone: Season 2, Epsiode 19 - Mr. Dingle the Strong.