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TALES OF THE EXPECTED
April 1, 2019  | By David Bianculli  | 29 comments

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SERIES PREMIERE: Today on CBS All Access, that streaming subscription service presents the first episodes of The Twilight Zone, the new version of the classic Rod Serling anthology series from 60 years ago. The new Zone is hosted by Jordan Peele, who is one of its executive producers – and for my review of the new Twilight Zone on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, visit the Fresh Air website and for the review on TVWW, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. Meanwhile, it’s not at all surprising, on the same calendar day that this new Zone launches, that I can write about a rival series premiering the same day on a rival streaming service. As a comic counterpart to the new Twilight Zone, Hulu presents its own anthology series, Tales of the Expected. Some of the stories summarized in press materials for the opening season include people getting ready to go to work, doing the bills, and being visited by relatives. But today’s opener has a Twilight Zone feel, and twist, even while the blind auditions are over. Which marching towards an “expected ending” in “Send in the Clones,” a New York art curator mounts a show about the history of television, acquires a loan of Rod Serling’s typewriter, and puts it on display to the delight of museum attendees. But after hours, an unsuccessful screenwriter friend of the curator’s takes advantage of after-hours access to swab DNA samples from the typewriter and, from a scientist friend, clones a replica of Rod Serling, who begins cranking out brilliant new scripts almost immediately. That’s the Twilight Zone part. The Tales of the Expected part is that, when the screenwriter takes these new Serling scripts to the networks, passing them off as his own, the networks uniformly reject them.

 
 
 
 
 
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