

This is the fear on which much of The Twilight Zone is founded: fear of isolation.
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Not-fully-trusted technology, like robots and large airplanes, held dangers, while technology that felt as though it might arrive soon, like time travel, perhaps held even more. The human legacy of endless war hung over the world always. Space travel was everywhere, both as opportunity and threat. Allegories connected to the civil rights movement and other efforts to escape systemic injustices were common. The fear of nuclear annihilation was ever-present in characters who built shelters and feared missiles. It's true that Serling's show was always connected, both in text and in subtext, to events of the moment. Peele, in his films Get Out and Us, has spent a lot of time thinking about one of The Twilight Zone's central questions, going back to original creator and host Rod Serling: What is the scariest thing you can imagine? He developed the new version alongside a team of executive producers including Simon Kinberg and Glen Morgan (Morgan was one of the primary writers behind The X-Files). Now, it returns on the CBS streaming service CBS All Access, hosted and executive produced by the man who may be America's most exciting filmmaker, Jordan Peele. It was adapted into a film in 1983, then revived on television for brief runs in 19. What is the scariest thing you can imagine? Old stuff spoiler alert: This piece discusses the plot of Jordan Peele's Get Out and the plots of a handful of old Twilight Zone episodes, but doesn't spoil episodes from the new run that debuts Monday. Jordan Peele acts as the narrator on the new incarnation of The Twilight Zone.
