Review: 'The Twilight Zone' returns, in case anyone needed the extra anxiety right now
Adam Scott plays Justin Sanderson in the “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet” episode of “The Twilight Zone.” By Hank Stuever Hank Stuever TV critic Email Bio Follow TV critic March 31 at 2:39 PM “The Twilight Zone” is back, but as a person trying to navigate daily life in 2019, you already knew that. You’re traveling through another dimension, a detour you never should have taken, and now there’s something wonky in the works, a major malfunction, ghosts in the machine.
In its first four episodes , the series finds new angles to ponder on such varied topics as the personal costs of stand-up comedy routines; airline etiquette ; corruption among small-town civil servants; and, most bluntly, the fear of driving while black in America. Without spoiling the central themes or outcomes of any episode, it seems the new “Twilight Zone” is perhaps too fixated on personal damnation and curses rather than straight-on, clutch-the-couch-pillow surprises.Tracy Morgan as reclusive superstar J.C. Wheeler in “The Twilight Zone.” In “The Comedian,” for example, Kumail Nanjiani gives a stirring opening performance as Samir, a stand-up comedian whose predictably lefty political tirades are falling flat with audiences.
“Nightmare at 30,000 Feet” impressively relocates the “gremlin” tormentor of the story from the wing of the plane to the main cabin, where Adam Scott plays a mentally fragile passenger. On a flight from Dulles to Tel Aviv, he finds an MP3 player that contains a multipart podcast that tries to elaborately solve the mysterious disappearance of the very flight Scott’s character is on. He can’t resist listening to it, and no one will listen to his increasingly panicked warnings of onboard threats.
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