YMMV / The Twilight Zone 1985 S 1 E 1

• Harsher in Hindsight: "Shatterday" ends with Bruce Willis' main character in bed, dying and fading away after talking to his Alternate Self. It's a lot harder to watch after in 2022, it was revealed he had Aphasia which affected his acting abilities and in February 2023, it was announced by his family that it had graduated to frontotemporal dementia.
• Spiritual Successor: "A Little Peace and Quiet" is one to "A Kind of a Stopwatch" from the original series, although the ending of this episode is much darker.
• Unintentional Period Piece: As it was made in 1985, the ending of "A Little Peace and Quiet" is dated to the time of the pre-glasnost, pre-fall of the Berlin Wall cultural fear of a nuclear World War III between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
• The Woobie: Penny, a frazzled housewife who suffers from chronic migraines and is seconds away from a nervous breakdown every day, thanks to the noise and stress genereated by her outrageously dysfunctional family. The reason she freezes time to her heart's content just so she can have some peace and solitude for the first time in years. Unforunately, by only thinking of herself in this manner, Penny freezes time when World War III starts, a mere second after a missile is heard exploding near her house. The final scene shows her learning about her lose-lose dilemma, either staying the only living person in a frozen world, or unfreeze the world so she and everyone on it can be destroyed, all because she was desperate to avoid her inevitable spiral into madness. Makes you just wanna give the poor woman a hug.

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