A look back at the Twilight Zone

maurvir · Post by **maurvir** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:46 pm

https://www.truthorfiction.com/did-rod- ... k-censors/

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Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" originally endeavored to sneak weighty political topics past network censors who gutted his prior social commentaries.
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ukimalefu · Post by **ukimalefu** » Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:56 pm

Star Trek did it too

DukeofNuke · Post by **DukeofNuke** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:59 am

Wasn't Science Fiction invented to slip social/political commentary past the censors?

iDaemon · Post by **iDaemon** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 9:12 am

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cul ... 180971837/

He did stuff already, but it was Emmitt Till that learnt him.

Séamas · Post by **Séamas** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:37 am

The nutcases (of the white conservative stripe) have zero sense of irony and even less understanding of what so many TZ episodes were describing.

I have to laugh at their outrage regarding who Peele casts as lead actors. Doubtful any single one of them has ever batted an eye at the number of white directors who never cast a person of color into a lead role.

Post by dv » Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:12 am

Séamas wrote: The nutcases (of the white conservative stripe) have zero sense of irony and even less understanding of what so many TZ episodes were describing.

I have to laugh at their outrage regarding who Peele casts as lead actors. Doubtful any single one of them has ever batted an eye at the number of white directors who never cast a person of color into a lead role.

Peele is making movies about black people though, so, like, duh?

It's not the BBC.

iDaemon · Post by **iDaemon** » Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:59 am

“A Tale of The Tape (Brixette)”

https://logicmag.io/05-how-to-kill-your-tech-industry/

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