Now with important life lessons from the Jordan Peele reboot, the
earlier TV reboot, and the 1983 movie.
Can you live your life by what The Twilight Zone has to teach you?
Yes, and maybe you should. The proof is in this lighthearted collection
of life lessons, ground rules, inspirational thoughts, and stirring
reminders found in Rod Serling's timeless fantasy series.
The notion that "it's never too late to reinvent yourself" soars through
"The Last Flight, '' in which a World War I flier goes forward in time
and gets the chance to trade cowardice for heroism. A visit from an
angel blares out the wisdom of "follow your passion" in "A Passage for
Trumpet." The meaning of "divided we fall" is driven home with dramatic
results when neighbors suspect neighbors of being invading aliens in
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." The old maxim about never
judging a book by its cover is given a tasty twist when an alien tome is
translated in "To Serve Man."
An unauthorized tribute, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the
Twilight Zone, written by veteran TV critic Mark Dawidziak, is a
celebration of the classic anthology show; but also, on another level, a
kind of fifth-dimension self-help book, with each lesson supported by
the morality tales told by Serling and his writers.