A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's
rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his
own personal Twilight Zone.
We recognize him as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of
The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as
the "Angry Young Man" of Television. Before he became the revered master
of science fiction, Rod Serling was a just a writer who had to fight to
make his voice heard. He vehemently challenged the networks and
viewership alike to expand their minds and standards--rejecting notions
of censorship, racism and war. But it wasn't until he began to write
about real world enemies in the guise of aliens and monsters that people
lent their ears. In doing so, he pushed the television industry to the
edge of glory, and himself to the edge of sanity. Rod operated in a
dimension beyond that of contemporary society, making him both a
revolutionary and an outsider.