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Tear Jerker / The Twilight Zone (2019)

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The Comedian

  • Every second of Samir Wassan's final stand-up routine.
    Samir: I'm a comedian, which is a job like any other. Except instead of climbing into the gears of an enormous machine to chase a hat like I assume all of you do, I come up here and I try and make people laugh. Why? Because I wanna spread joy? Because I want the world to be a better place? Nope! It's because I'm a garbage can who needs lots of love and validation emptied right into me! I want people to come up to me on the street and ask for selfies! I don't even care if they know who I am! I just want them to think I'm somebody! And I wanted to have it so much that I wanna be sick of it! I want them to come up to me and I wanna be like, "Don't you know I'm just a garbage can who wants to live my own life?!" Why do I want that?! ...I don't know. But it doesn't matter. I am a bully. People are just material to me. I throw them away. I'm a country with one export, and there's really only ONE THING LEFT FOR ME TO GIVE! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I'VE BEEN SAMIR WASSAN!
    [Samir's mic hits the stage, backed by the sound of uproarious laughter and applause.]

Nightmare at 30,000 Feet

  • Justin Sanderson's fate. You also wonder, considering the surrealism of the ending, why the survivors seem so un-dead. Does Justin end up in hell, or is he suffering from a nightmare? It does not make his fate any less sad or disturbing, but it doesn't seem entirely consistent to the rest of the episode.

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Point Of Origin

  • Eve has tried to start a new life with a husband and two children, even forgetting the world she escaped from. Her escape was all for nothing as her husband rejects her for being from "someplace else". Eve and whatever her kind happen to be are not malevolent, they just want to exist. However, the dominant powers that be happen to scrutinize them just because they're from another world. Eve ends up getting sent back to the facility and she and even her husband are seen crying.

Blurryman

  • Sophie worries that she has outgrown the Twilight Zone that she loved as a kid, so she works to inscribe meaning into every episode in the hopes of ensuring that her passion hasn't died and has done good in a bleak world. Many creatives who do speculative fiction media can relate.
  • Rod Serling is revealed to be the blurry figure following Sophie through the episode and tells her You Are Better Than You Think You Are. He reassures her that she hasn't lost her joy, and that she can still do good with her passion for speculative horror. Sophie starts crying Tears of Joy when Serling invites her into the real Twilight Zone to finally fulfill her childhood dreams.

Among the Untrodden

  • The ending. Madison's new friend, Irene, is revealed to be the result of conjuring, along with, implicitly, the rest of Madison's friends. All just creations of a lonely schoolgirl with psychic powers, desperate for companionship. And now they're gone, leaving her alone again.

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