Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone gets a spooky season 2 trailer, premiere date
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Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone reboot for CBS All Access was a mixed bag of big ideas, bigger stars, and some clumsy execution. Nevertheless, we remain excited for the anthology series’ second season, which just received an official premiere date and trailer.
In a switch-up from last season, CBS All Access will pull a Netflix by releasing every episode of the second season at once on June 25. Will such a flood of star power overwhelm the burgeoning streamer? After all, the series’ sophomore outing features the likes of Gillian Jacobs, Topher Grace, Joel McHale, Thomas Lennon, and Billy Porter, as well as ringers like Sky Ferreira, Tavi Gevinson, and Jenna Elfman. The season’s also got an impressive slate of directors, with Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night), Oz Perkins (Gretel And Hansel), and Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (The Endless) helming episodes.
Check out the trailer below, which confronts us with tarot cards, a glowing hole in the ice, and some “world maintenance” that’s giving us Dark City vibes.
Check out our recaps of the first season here.
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I wonder what the point is of releasing an anthology show all at once.
It’s so the bad episodes don’t have to stand on their own for a full week until a good one comes along
You see, it’s so you can watch the whole thing at once.
If they released them individually you could still watch them all when it’s over.
But then I couldn’t run every episode simultaneously on my 10 screens!…right away.
Way to ruin the twist! Jerk!
I sense a very conscious choice in closing with “I’m not what I started as; whatever I am, it’s something new.”
“CBS All Access will pull a Netflix by releasing every episode of the second season at once on June 25″Nice. That will make it a lot easier to sign up for a month, binge watch, and then cancel. Suckers.
Depressingly by-the-numbers.Ah well. We’ll always have Get Out.
Hopefully it’s a major improvement over season 1. They should also get away from trying to fill Rod Serlings shoes and just give up the whole idea of a narrator. They keep doing an absolutely terrible job casting the role.
The first season happened already?
Don’t worry. I watched most of it and even I kinda forget it happened.
But what MADE you forget?*spooky music*
Yeah, apparently it was not good
If a tree falls in the woods, and no one’s around to hear it, does it
make a sound? If a show releases on a niche streaming service, and no
one watches it, does it exist? Submitted for your approval, one Jordan Peele, a director and actor who
looks to bring back a beloved TV show where no casual TV viewers can see it. Is the show good, underrated, or even being watched? Only Jordan Peele truly knows, as he’s the producer… of the Twilight Zone.
The “world maintenance” line made me think of the classic 80s Twilight Zone reboot episode where the world is rebuilt from minute to minute.
I want to say it’s a Richard Matheson short story, which tracks, as he wrote a lot of iconic TZ episodes.
Actually it(“A Matter of Minutes”) was written by Rockne O’Bannon, and the episode credits say it’s “suggested by” the Theodore Sturgeon short story “Yesterday was Monday.”
As I said before, some things that make me more hopeful for this season like Peele writing an ep and Meloni starring in an ep written by one writer whose ep I liked in S1. But still meh after Season 1 overall.On side note, If US pro sports don’t come back and theaters don’t open, July is going to be a pop culture dead zone. Only hope is Dark, which is almost certainly going to be late June instead. Rough.
Damn, I didn’t realize Simon Kinberg was part creative team of the show as a whole until now. No wonder it’s been so mediocre.
I watched every episode of the first season, and thinking back, can not recall a single one of them that I view as really successful. Some had a good idea but were execute messily, many were overlong, and some were just plain trash.