Great first episode, full of mystery and intrigue. It is about a man suddenly winding up in a town with no people. He soon believes to be the last man alive and begins to go wild of loneliness. It’s a neat experiment, to see how a human would react to complete and utter loneliness.
Quote:You may be an undigested bit of beef, a crumb of cheese, a blot of mustard, a fragment of an undone potato, but there’s more of gravy than of grave about you.- Ferris
Highlights
– “The place is here, the time is now, and the journey into the shadows that we’re about to watch could be our journey.”
– The sheer loneliness of being alone
– Talking to the mannequin
– Feeling trapped inside the phone booth
– Talking to his mirror image
– ‘The Last Man on Earth’ being the only book in the store
– The Rock Hudson film poster
– Walking into a mirror
– Feeling watched
– It all being part of an experiment
– “Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting. Waiting with the patience of eons. Forever waiting…in the Twilight Zone.”
Rating: 8.5/10