A neat and somewhat frustrating episode about a little man who only wished to have time enough to read. And when he finally got his wish, he was struck by the worst kind of luck. One of the things this episode most excelled at was the apocalyptic look. It’s a very expensive looking episode for a story as simple as it was. Very well done.
Quote: Well, at least I still have my books. And the best thing is, there’s time now… all the time I need. – Bemis
Highlights
– “Witness Mr. Henry Bemis a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man who’s passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue clockers and the unrelenting hands of the clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He’ll have a world to himself without anyone.”
– Reading his books while working
– Being bullied by his horrible wife
– Having his poem book destroyed
– The world going to hell while he was reading a book in the safe room
– Finding the library with all the books in the world
– Arranging all the books by mounth to read
– Breaking his glasses before actually reading any of the books
– It’s not fair 🙁
– “The best laid plans of mice and men and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis in the Twilight Zone.”
Rating: 8/10