What is your favorite episode?
Mine is "Two." About the only thing this lacks, that Twilight Zone was famous for, was a twist ending. But I think it was just a beautifully told story, and I think it's all the more impressive that it only features two actors, and one of them utters a single word of dialogue. The story is mostly told with visuals, and non-verbal acting from both performers, and I think it's brilliant. I also think it's a near-perfect commentary on human nature: how destructive and dangerous we are, but how capable of transcending that we can be. The characterizations, the actions, the motivations of both the man and the woman in the episode are pitch perfect, and the ending is hopeful, without being sappy, and without failing to acknowledge that the two protagonists are only in their situation because of tragic human failure, and the whole episode serves as a warning of how terrible it would be if we destroyed our civilization, but how we might just possibly manage to carry on as a species if we did.
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