#TWILIGHT ZONE MEANING SERIES#
This essay will consider what specific fears of contemporary American audiences the series identified and exploited in order to scare viewers. Serling’s work is a fascinating subject of study not just as a popular and critically acclaimed cultural product, but also - and especially - as a horror series.
Serling should not have much trouble in making his mark.” Five years later, when Serling announced his departure from the world of television, the Times called him “perhaps television’s most prolific and famous literary practitioner,” and bemoaned the ending of The Twilight Zone as the “disappearance of serious drama from television.” After the airing of its first episode in fall 1959, a New York Times critic was immediately convinced that the program would stand out among its peers, “In the desultory field of filmed half-hour drama, …Mr. The Twilight Zone was also recognized for its artistic greatness in its own time. The enduring nature of the series’ fan base is evidenced by the fact that it has been revived twice, once in 1989 and once in 2002 the fact that reruns still air on a daily basis on the Syfy channel and elsewhere and the fact that Zone, with only a few other cult shows like Star Trek, completely dominated the market of VHS television collections throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Countless later series and films have taken inspiration from the series, which ran on the CBS network from 1959 until 1964 and to this day maintains a devoted following.
It is impossible to measure the impact that Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone has had on television and on American popular culture in general.
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