s01e08 — Point of Origin

The Twilight Zone — s01e08 — Point of Origin

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Release Date: 16.05.2019 19:00
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Discussion: Season 1, Episode 8
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Qtilla
Qtilla
16 May 2019, 14:43 #
Such a flawed mirror with a claim to a social agenda. It's too clumsy and anti-Trump. A C-minus
Trisha
Trisha
23 May 2019, 23:40 #
@Qtilla: Rather, the *black mirror* was created in the likeness of the *twilight zone*. see the very first version of 1959.
Wissl
Wissl
17 May 2019, 04:09 #
The maid is fucked up. "I've been working for you for 10 years, and you don't even know my kids' names!" And when you have your first period, she should know too, or is it disrespectful? And so haughtily agreed to help her, saying, of course, you're shit, but so be it, because of my grandson, I'll help. And what about the fact, you ungrateful scum, that you were provided with a job for 10 years, treated like a family member? Moreover, they were not obliged to be treated well at all. It was like she was doing a favor by cleaning the neighborhood and walking with the kids. You were fucking paid for this.
I suppose the scene was supposed to show that gg did not treat the maid as special and was not interested in her family, background and, apparently, some other set of mandatory topics (?) and for some reason this is bad. Should working as a maid give her any special privileges? Instead, I saw that gg treated the acolyte well under any circumstances, and the acolyte, as soon as she found herself in a winning position, began to treat her like shit and shame her for bullshit. Moreover, when gg has a chance to be saved, she takes a risk and saves this ungrateful fool. Of course, I was bombed by this maid.
Actually, I imagine how I break into the boss's office and yell that I've had enough, because he doesn't even know my son's name. And in tears I run away to the HR department to quit. Well, to make a row - they don't know the names of my children either.

And the main emigrant analogy is made clumsily and completely unprocessed. Well, you've tested your aunt, you've found out that she's from another dimension. And what? She's not some kind of spy, she doesn't remember a damn thing. Illegal immigrants are deported not because the government is evil, but because there is a law, and they violated it. And what law did you break? Or are you going to send her to another dimension somehow? Apparently, the pilgrims there will simply be stupefied in huge solitary cells with taxpayers' money, instead of just living on, as they have been living for decades.

So-so series, no script, no sensible SJW-wrestling.
nikitanka
nikitanka
PRO
19 May 2019, 01:24 #
@Wissl: +100500
monronastya
monronastya
27 May 2019, 03:16 #
This comment was the best thing that happened to this series.
Thanks to the author 🔥
jensenjar
jensenjar
11 Jun 2019, 12:24 #
@Wissl: everything is like that except cleaning up. Cleaning up.
Guarin
Guarin
17 May 2019, 06:53 #
I thought that it couldn't be worse than the previous one - a mistake.
floureed
floureed
27 May 2019, 21:00 #
@Guarin: And so it has been all season
Demonakor
Demonakor
17 May 2019, 16:42 #
It is also surprising that the children were not taken away as descendants of these immigrants.
SummerPolina
SummerPolina
17 May 2019, 23:50 #
Oh, I hoped so much that the series would be interesting
Explain the meaning
Лангольер
Лангольер
18 May 2019, 01:57 #
@SummerPolina: respect immigrants.
Tacito
Tacito
24 Sep 2020, 01:37 #
@SummerPolina: The point is that after emigrating to another country and living there for many years and even reaching some kind of position in society, this society will still not accept you as its own and will merge at the first opportunity. Just because you're an expat!
Weirdo_o
Weirdo_o
18 May 2019, 00:50 #
As I understand it, the moral of this fable is that you should not treat a refugee servant like shit, because evil aunt karma can suddenly knock on the head, and you will find yourself in the same boat with her?

Well... It's a good idea, it's a pity, it was filmed so disgusting that the maid does not cause any sympathy \_(ツ)_/
kuvaldin
kuvaldin
18 May 2019, 19:28 #
EXCUSE ME WHAT THE FUCK?
FRFD
FRFD
01 Jun 2019, 19:55 #
I didn't want to watch the series for a long time, but then I found out that it turns out I'm almost in the season finale (if I understood everything correctly) and I think well, SUDDENLY, as luck would have it, I didn't watch the most interesting thing, but alas and ah..
lilandra
lilandra
09 Jun 2019, 04:52 #
my husband's reaction in the end just killed me. for so many years he took care of his wife and in an instant she turned into garbage under his feet? It doesn't happen that way
zubizubizu78
zubizubizu78
10 Jul 2019, 16:24 #
Yeah, shit. The main character played well, I did not expect her to play the role of Snow White
RD1
RD1
03 Feb 2020, 03:11 #
Absolutely correctly noted. The plot has not been worked out at all. The idea is there, but the implementation is zero
pushkinairaa
pushkinairaa
04 Jul 2020, 15:28 #
It seems that the cliche of a housewife in a similar image sticks to this actress, after the series "why women kill"
svtln96
svtln96
22 Sep 2020, 19:45 #
The best episode so far, as far as I'm concerned. In places, for some reason, it reminded me of "The Handmaid's Tale."
abyssinian
abyssinian
17 Nov 2020, 02:22 #
In the second series, the flight was 1015, in the third - the car number, and here - the password for escape.
Mashvat
Mashvat
02 Jan 2021, 17:33 #
Each episode has references to the others. In one of them there was a street "Laski", this is the surname of a policeman in the 3rd series. In the series about space, the heroine was holding a Nordic Airlines plane or something like that. This is an airplane from a series about an airplane, sorry for the tautology. In general, it is quite interesting to look for these Easter eggs in each episode. Well, you've got it right about 1015.
id498700854
id498700854
18 May 2023, 12:38 #
There is excellent camerawork in this series
Yula2707
Yula2707
30 Jul 2023, 12:34 #
The dumbest episode
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