The Twilight Zone DVD Volume 2, "The Monsters Are Due On Main St"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Interesting little parable about a small town and the residents who suspect an alien invasion. "It could be any one of us...maybe even YOU."

People who got along, then a series of external events got everyone agitated so they started pointing the finger at their neighbor.

Sometimes the search for the monsters on Main Street makes monsters of the searchers. Sometimes "you're one of us, or you're NOT" is a real pain in the ass. Sometimes one side isn't "right" and the other side isn't "wrong"...it's just two fucking sides.

And in the episode, the people of the happy little town beat the living crap out of the people they think are on the "other side," and they feel better about themselves...for a while.

Funny how sometimes life imitates art...isn't it.

[LowerManhattanite]

1. Prescient as hell...

...I bought the three CD set of the original scores for the series (Wild Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith and Nathan Van Cleave stuff---including excellent alternate opening and closing themes). Scarifying! Plus Serling was a big-time progressive and used the show to deliver parables against the right's worst excesses--racism, xenophobia, callousness towrads the environment, greed, etc.)

"Sigh"...now I have to add the DVDs to the Fadduh's Day/ Birthday list. :)