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A little too much doom and gloom!


I guess Night Gallery does not hold up to Twilight Zone because of all of the downer endings. The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes is a good example. Terrible ending. Very preachy about what rotten people human beings are. I guess I like to look at the positive things in people and believe there is a lot of good in people. Don't lump human kind in as one evil thing. The Ozzie & Harriet episode was terrible. Ozzie was great, but the way it ended was terrible. I always loved Ozzie & Harriet and was very upset. There was also an episode where a father was shown as a hateful human being who wanted to see his son kill an animal and then he would give him his fortune. Just a total waste of my time watching that episode. I guess Rod Serling hates people who hunt.

There were exceptions where the endings worked. The Mickey Rooney episode where he was a gangster was very good. The episode with Carl Betz as the man experimenting with a young man was excellent. The episode with Burl Ives who lured Stuart Whitman to his home was excellent.

A lot of the other episodes were just average. I still have most of season 2 to watch. Hopefully there is better material coming. I do remember an episode where they reversed the story used in Eye of the Beholder from Twilight Zone. That was a good one.

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For the most part, the gloomy endings worked. I liked the one with Ozzie & Harriet. Though it was a downer, it was also kind of funny. The one with the hunter would be more of a happy ending since it was the crabby hunter that received the final fate. I'm sure Serling is no fan of hunting. "The Different Ones", the one like "Eye of the Beholder", had practically the same ending only the aliens sent their "ugly" one while accepting the man's son. Unlike "Twilight Zone", "Night Gallery" simply tried to scare the viewers. No secret messages or morals to learn, just pure fear.



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