2019-20
Previous TV revivals of The Twilight Zone used the name and the approximate format for anthologies of short SF/F/H stories, but this one, produced and hosted by Jordan Peele, is expressly about The Twilight Zone as a source of ideas and images. Every episode has visual references and quotes in the press kit, Peele plays the on-screen narrator like Rod Serling, and one of the episodes in the opening double bill is Nightmare At Thirty Thousand Feet. There are a couple of great episodes here but it doesn't always work. Though that was always true of The Twilight Zone.
One advantage this version had is that streaming meant episodes could vary wildly in length, especially in season two, so only a couple overstay their welcome. (Although 8 manages it for me despite being one of the shortest.) My favourite here is A Small Town, a light-hearted take on sympathetic magic.
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