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By William Kozy “Alex, I’ll take “Silliest Twilight Zone Episodes” for $200 please.” “This escape room plot of an episode received only 5 votes in a survey of fans and writers asking, ‘What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?’ tying it with 7 other episodes for 117th thru 123rd place of […]
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The Twilight Zone Review: The Jeopardy Room
April 8th, 2021 
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Comments Off on The Twilight Zone Review: The Jeopardy RoomThe Twilight Zone Review: Uncle Simon
April 1st, 2021 Bad Brad By William Kozy Uncle Simon sometimes feels like a writing exercise to see how many creative insult monikers Serling can come up with. He’ll use “garbage head”, “wilting blossom”, “passionless vegetable”, “angular turnip”, “night-crawling imitation of the female gender”, “crooked-seamed grubber”, “scrounging female ape”, “thin-lipped toothpick-legged conniver”, “money-sick crone”, “lint-headed clod”, “torpid lotus-eater”, “bovine crab”, […]
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March 24th, 2021 Bad Brad By William Kozy Wow. Just wow. There have been many awful Twilight Zone episodes, but upon seeing this one, I am convinced (and hoping) that I have seen the worst episode. And yes, I’ve seen The Bard, Black Leather Jackets, and Cavender Is Coming. It received a lowly 5 votes in my survey of fans […]
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March 16th, 2021 Bad Brad By William Kozy Pat Hingle’s performance in “The Incredible World of Horace Ford” offers one of the more polarizing subjects amongst critics and fans of The Twilight Zone. Aside from the merits of The Bewitchin’ Pool, I haven’t come across another episode that has divided fan opinion as much. There are those that think Mr. […]
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March 9th, 2021 Bad Brad By William Kozy There are a handful of Twilight Zone episodes centered on The Civil War (“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, “The Passersby” “Back There”) and of those, “Still Valley” received the fewest votes, just 4, in my survey of fans and writers asking, “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” […]
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March 2nd, 2021 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy It’s a great premise: a man finds that he can trade anything that he possesses for anything else that someone else possesses upon their agreeing to the bargain. We viewers start thinking about what we would do, how we would best exploit this ability. At first it might not seem so […]
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February 15th, 2021 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy Here’s another episode I thought would have fared better in my survey asking, “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” “Person or Persons Unknown” received only 4 votes, tying it with 9 other episodes for 124th thru 132nd place. It surprises me because, it seems to have […]
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February 9th, 2021 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] RSR Press Release RSR’s very own feature writer William Kozy turns 51 today. On behalf of the entire team, we wish him a happy birthday.
Posted in COLUMNS BY WILLIAM KOZY Tags: RSR Wishes Feature Writer Bill Kozy a Happy 51st Birthday - Entertainment News Comments Off on RSR Wishes Feature Writer William Kozy a Happy 51st Birthday – Entertainment NewsThe Twilight Zone Review: No Time Like The Past
February 8th, 2021 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy Sometimes the flowery prose Rod Serling writes works out very nicely in “Twilight Zone” episodes—the tone and circumstances of the story help determine the appropriateness of that style. He attempts it here as well, but from the very opening scene it feels off, forced. And it doesn’t help that the lead […]
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February 1st, 2021 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy If ever there were a Twilight Zone that was decent, simple, and well-acted, but almost ruined by one shot it was this one. In fact, it very well may that one shot that caused this episode to receive only 4 votes in my survey that asked, “What is your favorite episode […]
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January 26th, 2021 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy Here’s an episode that initially might seem confusing, but upon repeated viewing, you’ll discover a much simpler story structure. It’s the curse of the Season 4, hour-long episodes. Essentially, these hour-long episodes aren’t terribly complicated but because they are padded with so much unnecessary dialogue, or repetitive scenes illustrating the same […]
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January 19th, 2021 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy I’ve come to feel as I watch this episode over and over that it rates up there with the best of Twilight Zone episodes. It is surely one of the most underrated episodes, receiving only 4 votes in my survey that asked, “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight […]
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January 12th, 2021 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy Since I started writing these reviews, this is the first episode that I’ve arrived at that I had never ever seen before. So, it’s a unique experience to discover an episode that is 60 years old but brand new to me. I wasn’t expecting much since “The Brain Center at Whipple’s” […]
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January 7th, 2021 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy There are two kinds of creepy. One is the kind where you have an uneasy sense of dread regarding mystery and danger being dangled in front of you, and the other kind of creepy is the unpleasant annoyance you might feel toward a person or situation that is possibly tinged with […]
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December 30th, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy “One More Pallbearer” could indeed have used a few more voters to carry it up from the near-depths of the survey results to the question: “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” Receiving only 3 votes, it was tied with 6 other episodes for 133rd thru 139th […]
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December 23rd, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy At bat this week is “The Mighty Casey” which avoided getting shut out, receiving only 3 votes in the survey that asked “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” This put it in a tie with 6 other episodes for 133rd thru 139th place—too many games out […]
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December 15th, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy Burdened by dim-witted logic, and a pacing as slow as moss growing, “Valley of the Shadow” received only 3 votes in the survey asking “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” This put it in a tie with 6 other episodes for 133rd thru 139th place. Reporter […]
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December 9th, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy The overly histrionic ranting of “Four O’Clock” led to its receiving only 3 votes in the survey asking “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” This put it in a tie with 6 other episodes for 133rd thru 139th place. It’s an unpleasant episode to sit through, […]
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December 2nd, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy A plaintive oboe accompanies the sad sight of Jonathan West, a ventriloquist just off the boat from Ireland—he is in a pawn shop, and with poignant reluctance, has just pawned his grandfather’s watch, practically begging the owner not to sell it until Jonathan can buy it back. Stafford Repp by the […]
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November 25th, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy Here’s an episode that deserves much better than to be lumped in the group of episodes that received only 2 votes from respondents to the poll asking “What is you favorite episode of the Twilight Zone?” It’s miles better than that group’s “Cavender Is Coming”, “From Agnes – With Love”, “Black […]
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November 18th, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy Ramos Clemente (Peter Falk) stands on a balcony waving at the throng of citizens who shout “Viva Clemente!” after his recent overthrow of this Latin country’s previous leader, General De Cruz. The crowd sound effects are not exactly inspiring, but Clemente turns back into the palatial room overjoyed as he faces […]
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November 12th, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy “What’s your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” And here come all the episodes rounding the final turn…3,000 fans and writers responded to the poll…here they come down the stretch, and it’s “The Last Night of the Jockey!”…coming in a tie for 151st place after receiving just 2 votes. […]
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October 27th, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy “The Lateness of the Hour” was the first of the six Twilight Zone episodes to be shot in the failed experiment called “Let’s shoot videotape to save money!” The poor visual quality though was very obvious to viewers, and the practice was soon scrapped. In my survey asking writers and TZ […]
Posted in COLUMNS BY WILLIAM KOZY, TWILIGHT ZONE REVIEWS Tags: The Twilight Zone Review: The Lateness of the Hour Comments Off on The Twilight Zone Review: The Lateness of the HourThe Twilight Zone Review: Ninety Years Without Slumbering
October 21st, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy With only two votes “Ninety Years Without Slumbering” remained asleep near the bottom of the list that asked writers and Facebook fan page Twilight Zone members for their favorite episodes. It is tied with 11 other episodes for essentially 149th place out of 156 episodes. We open on Sam Forstmann, played […]
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October 15th, 2020 Bad Brad [AdSense-A] By William Kozy Finally, an episode I can honestly say I have never ever seen before. I embarked on this survey project asking writers in the fantasy/sci-fi genre and members of Facebook Twilight Zone groups: “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” Understandably some episodes are heavily favored by the […]
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