Two - Twilight-Tober Zone

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[@goodnewsgeek42]

You get "prekrasnyy" in Russian if you put in "lovely" in English!

[@trinaq]

Yes, we've made it to Season 3 already! Thanks for making October extra spooky, Walter!

[@vicbaez]

Someone is on the comments catfishing as the channel trying to scam people

[@projectkabal]

Amazing series Walter, i have been looking forward to October for the last 3 years because of it, i truly enjoy the more in depth review of each episode, not that the previous "Skit" approach was not appreciated but this format is so much better and immersive!! thanks again for such a great series!

[@albertnormal6834]

@@vicbaez It's almost every channel now. I try to report as many as possible but I don't think youtube cares.

[@trinaq]

Elizabeth Montgomery gave a very powerful dramatic performance, just three years before "Bewitched." She conveys all of her emotions through facial expressions alone, only speaking one word in Russian at the end.

[@IAmTheAce5]

I’d say she was always magic

[@sweeney60]

Between this, Bewitched and Lizzy Borden she had unprecedented range.

[@kylekullin2520]

Do you like Tom Petty?

[@PrometheusOfVideos]

I loved the ending when Elizabeth Montgomery's character arrives in the white dress and gives a smile so warm and bright it lights this dark world up, then walks off with Charles Bronson to become the Adam and Eve of this new world.. A highly underrated episode and one of my personal favorites!

[@LA_HA]

Prometheus of Videos: I forget, but is this the episode where they do actually give their names as Adam and Eve? Or is it the other very similar episode of a post apocalyptic couple?

[@PrometheusOfVideos]

@@LA_HA No, in this episode they're only known as 'The Man' and 'The Woman' (I checked IMDB to make sure. Which makes sense I guess to match Rod Serling's opening narration where everything is kept ambiguous.

[@LA_HA]

@@PrometheusOfVideos Okay, then I'm thinking of another similar TZ episode. Thank you so much for checking. I appreciate it

[@spacedinosaur8733]

@@LA_HA That episode is called Probe 7, Over and Out.

[@LA_HA]

@@spacedinosaur8733 Thank you for sharing this information. I really appreciate it. That was very cool of you. Have a great weekend and Halloween

[@lolec35]

Prekrásny in Slovak means Beautiful. And as it is a Slavic language as well they are quiet close.

[@trinaq]

Thanks so much, I hadn't realised that before, and it makes the potential romance between the two all the more heartwarming. ♥️

[@zvimur]

The irony could be that they both could be intentionally speaking the opponent's language. Bronson's (originally Buchinski) part Slavic roots show in his accent.

[@henryottis295]

@@zvimur Bronson to my eye looks very Russian. If he played one it would be very believable.

[@Monsterboy1199]

Who else hears procrastinate ?

[@coolanimegirls]

@@Monsterboy1199 I do

[@Malicious_Hero]

Two is probably my favorite episode of Twilight Zone. Such a strong episode.

[@WebMonkey741]

It's so memorable from most other TV from the time. There's nothing quite like it.

[@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084]

this was my favorite episode, I also could never remember the episode name so I re-watched the twilight zone to find it again lol

[@sifatshams1113]

Elizabeth Montgomery's smile at the end is to this day one of the most genuinely beautiful things I have ever seen in my 32 years on this planet.

[@Mysteryof89]

She is a beautiful lady

[@PabloCruise1]

Yeah, right.

[@ramsfan0868]

"This has been ... a love story, about two lonely people who found each other ... in the Twilight Zone." (Rod's Closing narration)

[@DinobotTM2]

I don't think it's a bad or even average episode. But it's a very different one. It's a love story between two soldiers that lost everything else. It's not the normal, evil twist plot that we see, and that might make it feel weird. But it's still amazing, and the acting is pure perfection.

[@johnrussellpelt9091]

I like to think the evil plot twist is more or less a modern anthology trope than all that prevalent in classic TZ. I blame OUTER LIMITS, both classic and modern. Horror anths like NIGHT GALLERY and CRYPT RALES less so... you expect them to have bad endings.

[@sweeney60]

It feels more like a play then tv episode. I bet it would work great on stage as a one act.

[@shainewhite2781]

I like how tense this episode is. It has very little to no dialogue between the characters.

[@trinaq]

Agreed, it just goes to show that you only need a few cast members and escalating, well established tension, to make a compelling episode.

[@collegeman1988]

That’s one thing I immediately noticed when seeing this episode for the first time. Almost no dialogue between the only two characters in the story, but still very effective.

[@stevenlester2606]

I don’t know if you’ll ever read this, but I did want to express my deep admiration to your presentation and writing talent. You’re very, very good at what you do.

[@ramsfan0868]

"Two" is one of the universally loved episodes of the Twilight Zone.

[@samus88]

Elizabeth Montgomery is stunning in this episode. When she smiles at him in the final scene, my heart just melts.

[@Rat2rrj]

Didn't even know this episode existed, damn its beautiful

[@wstine79]

I remember this story. I like how both are opposites of gender and a nationality slowly working together as the last two people on Earth.

[@Gerwulf569]

I watch this episode and a bunch of others every New Years still. This is one of my favorites and the most memorable for me.

[@Omar-wq9dz]

All 4 of the main cast for Bewitched appeared in Twilight Zone before coming together for the former show

[@teamcyeborg]

I love how this one feels so backwards. A terrifying, apocalyptic setup, with a cute, very _normal_ twist

[@henryottis295]

This one of my all-time favourites. The acting is fantastic, and the story is timely even more so now.

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

I am glad we made it to season three. I think it is my favorite season to binge. In season one, there we still trying to find their footing, season two they try to limit themselves a little, but in season three is where the show became really experimental. It has a lot of creative and enjoyable episodes, so we are in for some fun. I'll see you in the zone.

[@julieporter7805]

Excellent mostly mute performances by Bronson and Montgomery. I like that the female character is more combative and the male more diplomatic. It's a great reversal of expected gender roles and if you consider her character it makes perfect sense. She is a female soldier in what is more than likely enemy territory (the signs are in English so they're in his world.) So she quite likely has been raped or been assaulted by enemy male soldiers (Also the fact that she reacts to the posters of male soldiers seems to trigger PTSD ) or told that they would. So she is constantly on the defensive.

[@gregorytyson995]

After the in-your-face bombast of Obsolete Man it's nice to have a quieter, more subdued piece of work like this one.

[@wakeangel2001]

This kind of reminds me of the first episode of Gundam: 8th MS team, where the main character ends up trapped in a derilect spaceship with an enemy soldier and they have to work together to survive. There was also a Star Trek TNG episode where Geordi and a Romulan officer were stuck on a hostile planet and needed to carry each other to a beacon since both were injured...or an episode of Enterprise with Mayweather and some reptile dude...this is a very commonly used story trope is what I'm getting at

[@ThePa1riot]

Huh, you know what? I actually really like that ending. It actually caught me off guard because I guessed out loud they were gonna kill each other. Instead it turns what is possibly the worst situation imaginable into an unlikely star crossed love story.

[@ramsfan0868]

Bro. Never skip this one. There are very few bad episodes. This is far from that

[@Ytcinema18]

I like this episode, I love how this story is more Show don’t tell

[@xxSandt21xx]

This is my all time favorite TZ episode! It’s the closest the show ever got to a perfect love story! 🥰🥰🥰

[@spacedinosaur8733]

Followed closely by "Probe 7, Over & Out" & "The Fugitive" & "The Hunt"

[@xxSandt21xx]

@@spacedinosaur8733 oh, I’m a big fan of “The Hunt”, but for me, “Two” will always be number one 🥰🥰🥰

[@petrastedman669]

Prekrasnyy is technically Czech for beautiful, but the Russian version is прекрасный. (also the e is pronounced like an e - pree-kraz-ne-ya.) If it's 1 y (prekrasny) it means wonderful, and one of my cousins has a shooting script from this episode (it's one of their most prized possessions; it's in more of a place of honor than family photos) with the single-y spelling when she says it and the double y when he says it. No idea if that's just a typo, but an interesting bit of trivia.

[@fierceditiesnaruto]

I like that ending, it's a refreshing change from all the dreary endings I see.

[@mst3KGf]

He wasn't well known at the time, so it probably wasn't intentional, but it is ironic to see Charles Bronson play the pacifist in the episode.

[@jeffreyberkin-ez3uh]

He had done a couple Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes.

[@claytonrios1]

It takes two to tango in the Twilight Zone!

[@jessetorres8738]

Ah man, you beat me to it.

[@trinaq]

"It takes two to make a thing go right. It takes two to make it out of sight!" ♥️🎶

[@jrcarter9175]

@@trinaq Damn! Beat me to it!

[@Hanmerhack]

Just the two of us, we can make it if we try

[@scottishmisfit]

Elizabeth Montgomery was great in this one and I liked her with the darker hair

[@MajorSleeve]

Works pretty well as a season opener honestly

[@nickmanzo8459]

Wait a minute, Hal Roach studios?! Can you imagine how different this episode would have been with Laurel and Hardy as the two survivors?! “Here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”

[@rivaridge7211]

Or better yet, how about the "Our Gang" kids coming out of the rubble (along with "Petey," their faithful dog) and creating a new world - in their own screw-ball comedy way! I also like your thought here - Cheers!

[@TBgunsandbutter]

definitely one of my favorites👍🏾 up there with The Howling Man and Living Doll

[@KRPeart]

Totally in my top 10 episodes!

[@georger64]

I don‘t think there‘s any “ah, you can skip this episode“ for any classic series, be it Star Trek, Twilight Zone or whatever. Take the bad and mediocre ones with the good and the best, to really be able to judge the whole thing.

[@katherinegilks3880]

I disagree. There are only so many hours in a days and days in a life. One shouldn’t be forced to waste any time of that life just for the sake of completeness, especially in an anthology series. If one’s goal is completeness or rigourous academic study, of course no skipping. If one’s goal is to expand one’s horizons, have a nostalgia trip, or just watch something fun on a Friday night, skipping is perfectly fine - especially in old shows where values dissonance can ruin someone’s enjoyment of an otherwise good show. It doesn’t make anyone less of a fan or unable to truly appreciate the show overall.

[@benjaminpew8473]

This is one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. I am glad that the woman kept her rifle at the end, it's a nice nod to equality.

[@AlkoPRO11]

"Прекрасное" it's beautiful.

[@jrbrayjr2003]

This was one of my favorite classic Twilight Zone episodes.

[@epicfail9693]

This has always been one of my favorite episodes

[@Dentist93]

She said: "Прекрасный", which means "Beautiful" or "Pretty", so yeah - Cold War possible outcome episode.

[@politenonparticipant4859]

My first experience with this story was as through the speech and debate club at my old high-school in a short story format. It's a rather moving story to read aloud and to this day brings a tear to my eye. Very few books or films have managed to do that. It's beauty, tragedy, and hope all rolled into one.

[@frankboring1996]

One of my favorite episodes

[@NorthernTigress]

I'm so glad that I found Twilightober. I grew up when after midnight was the time for all the old black and white classics. I would sneak out of bed and watch episodes of Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and Tales from the Crypt.

[@champslim]

Two is one of my favorites!

[@redglassesart]

This is one of my favorite episodes ❤

[@richewilson6394]

I like that Charles Bronson was in this everybody forgets like he was the Bruce Willis of the 60s 70s partially '80s.

[@EternalKHFan0]

I checked Wikipedia page for the episode, which shows the word in Cyrillic script, прекрасный(prekrasnyy). If you put it in Russian English translation, it gets translated as "beautiful".

[@beauhughes1285]

My favorite episode of all

[@400KrispyKremes]

Bronson was great in this episode. Perfect casting.

[@leodouskyron5671]

Stories like this hit HARD back in the days of the Cold War. Back then they were not far removed from having nuclear attack drills and every week they tested the emergency broadcast system. So this story has lost a lot of it’s bite for a contemporary audience, but it even outside of that initial zeitgeist the story it is very well done. Its still really well done and well acted that is is worth look today - even if in someways, it’s a time capsule of a time thankfully long gone.

[@henryottis295]

You're kidding right ??? Either that, or you live under a rock, because Putin is threatening us with nuclear weapons almost daily now, and China is as well !!! I can't believe you said that last sentence ! Mind boggling!

[@SeenAGreatLight]

That's a very good point, it didn't occur to me the amount of conflicted feelings this kind of episode would cause. It must have been bittersweet, seeing two fictional people from different sides making peace, then coming back to the unfortunate reality of the Cold War. By the way, I think that word is "zeitgeist," although Zen Geist sounds a lot cooler. :)

[@leodouskyron5671]

@@SeenAGreatLight Yeah this time I was talking into the phone and did not double check … actually glad it worked out … mostly. 😂

[@SeenAGreatLight]

@@leodouskyron5671 That's actually pretty impressive for voice-to-text!

[@dividedstatesofamerica2520]

You act like nuclear annihilation isn't one goddamn step away nowadays.

[@Razorgeist]

I remember this one quite well. The acting was superb and as you mentioned Elizabeth Montgomery was the standout...plus ( and forgive me for being a little fratboyish) she was quite the smoke show back in the day.

[@liftbotful]

One of my favorite TZ episodes.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

Anyone who is a teen or older can understand this episode. For an episode that only uses a handful of words, it has a lot to say and it says it in a way such that no matter what language the viewer speaks.... they will understand it. If you ask me, it is powerful, both visually and emotionally. It's a great episode.

[@TodaysDante]

If you want to see Elizabeth Montgomery in something other than Bewitched, watch her in The Untouchables. She owned that episode.

[@druidvw2088]

Best damn episode, period.

[@razekt149]

How nobody ever made a serie out of this ending concept? A man and a woman with militar training and laser guns who don't speak a word of each others language in pos nuclear war futuristic wolrd. That sounds amazing

[@Harperlarp]

Yes! We're back, baby! Love me some Twilight Tober Zone. Comfort watching. Having never see the show probably helps me enjoy these vids more.

[@collegeman1988]

Although I’d watched The Twilight Zone for years in syndication, I’d never seen this episode until buying the series DVD set about 10 years ago. Near the beginning of the story, the music composed was later reused as the theme music for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, an anthology series hosted by E.G. Marshall in the 1970s. Two is a very effective story with almost no dialogue between Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery, and also one that is set in the future, but no definitive year is mentioned.

[@RockySamson]

Years from now, when you get to Season 5, I hope you don’t compare “Probe 7 Over and Out” too unfavorably with “Two” given their similarities. “Probe 7” is one of my favorite most underrated Twilight Zone stories and I personally consider it even more beautiful than this episode was.

[@vottak5964]

5:29 she says "beautiful" "прекрасный" in masculine form. That form is incorrent if she refers it for dress(neutral gender)

[@cheneethompson5756]

The beautiful Elizabeth Montgomery was great in this! Three years later, she became known as the lovely Samantha stephens in bewitched

[@stanloretta92]

As mentioned, the entire main cast of “Bewitched” was on “The Twilight Zone” prior to that show. Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha) > “Two” Dick York (Darrin) > “The Purple Testament” and “A Penny For Your Thoughts” Agnes Moorehead (Endora) > “The Invaders” David White (Larry Tate) > “A World of Difference” and “I Sing the Body Electric” Some of the less regular cast members were also on both shows: Alice Pearce (Gladys Kravitz #1) > “Static” Sandra Gould (Gladys Kravitz #2) > “What’s in the Box” and “Cavendar is Coming” Robert F. Simon (Frank Stephens #1) > “No Time Like the Past” Roy Roberts (Frank Stephens #2) > “A Kind of Stopwatch” Plus some more minor characters. Montgomery, York, Moorehead, and Pearce would all get Emmy nominations for “Bewitched” with Pearce winning posthumously. In season 5’s “It’s So Nice to Have a Spouse Around the House,” after a witch sends Samantha back to the Old South, Darrin says his wife is “in the Twilight Zone.” Well, they ALL were!

[@theredknight1757]

The actors sold the prime conflict of the episode. Their past, where they were conditioned to hate the other side and shoot on sight, against their humanity and desperation for human contact. Could one be put aside for the other? The man does so earlier, the woman struggles with it more. The recruitment station scene brilliantly reinforce that. Remember, it is the woman who is the invader, stuck on enemy soil. That would be harder then struggling on home turf, so to speak.

[@katherinegilks3880]

We only have his word that she is an invader. They could actually be two different ethnic groups from the same territory, where “invader” is more of a slur than a historic reality. She could have been fighting to get her home back, with the recruiters calling her people “vermin” who need to be stamped out to make way for a “better, civilised society”. The posters reminded her that his nice gesture of giving her the dress was potentially just a precursor to rape. (As in, he wanted her to look nice before he raped and killed her.) Besides, if there are only two people left in the general area, does it matter who is invader and who is invaded? Not to mention that if the area is supposed to be the US, both of them are invaders (desert regions of the former USSR too, for that matter).

[@Unownshipper]

This was a fine way to start season 3. "Two" is something different, something not seen in the Twilight Zone yet: a love story. I'm so not counting "The Chaser" or "A World of His Own," those are warped stories of obsession. This is the question of if love can conquer hate, and it's well done. I agree that Elizabeth Montgomery edges out Charles Bronson as the standout. I like the dilemma that plays in her head. Yes, the two of them may be the only two people left, but can she overcome the intense hatred she probably feels for this man who represents the nation that wiped hers and the rest of the planet out? I like that it's a struggle; those feelings don't just go away. I think I like this more than "The Invaders," in a way it's more streamlined. And while I thought that one was tense, it was also goofy with its tiny robot men. This is straight drama from start to finish. The lack of dialogue for most of it really lets the scenery speak, it's perfectly moody. Definitely an episode I can get behind.

[@miroslavtomic7038]

Rod's ending narration explained everything literally "This has been... a love story, about two lonely people who found each other... in the Twilight Zone".

[@goodnewsgeek42]

This one seems lovely

[@goodnewsgeek42]

Lmao! Lovely is "prekrasnyy" in Russian 😂

[@jacksampsonforever]

my favorite

[@psychomammoth9640]

One of the first episodes I’ve seen of the series and a personal favorite.

[@Mysteryof89]

Aw nuts Walter, this is one of my favorite episodes :(

[@jeepamir508]

5:29 - she says: "Prekransniy". Which in English sounds like "Handsome" when it refers to men.

[@mikaelcrews7232]

This is one of top three favorite episodes!

[@wehosrmthink7510]

One of my favorite episodes!

[@brendakrieger7000]

Thanks

[@mrcheaterson]

I think the optimistic endings are part of why the twilight zone is so good. going into each episode you genuinely don't know if it will end good or bad.

[@phunkym8]

rod hit the nail on the head. half of all episodes are about small groups of people or sometimes even one, or here two, discovering some barren, abandoned area. most of the runtime is dedicated to just watching them with very little actually happening. but i really liked the acting in this episode. she is beautiful and it took me until he smiled that the guy is charles fucking bronson.

[@tubularfrog]

My advice: Don't skip it. This is a really good episode of warriors who are done fighting because there's nothing left to fight for except their own future together. It could be a tale our children will face.

[@philipportelli7700]

I disagree. "Two" is one of TZ's best! It has one of Charles Bronson's best performances and Elizabeth Montgomery is a wonder! She made herself look more disheveled for the role!

[@charlespfaff6585]

One of my favs. In the top ten.

[@ramsfan0868]

Just got done watching an episode you will cover later this month called "The Jungle." Now time to check out the newest video

[@rc1564]

Excellent episode. Love Charles Bronson. He was always a perfect bad ass.

[@BairumFX]

Greetings from Russia. So, yeah, the woman says "Прекрасный" with heavy accent. It means "beautiful". Depending on context it can also mean "handsome", "pretty". Thanks for your videos, by the way.

[@brianbannon6746]

Short and sweet.

[@RussianJackal]

Prekrasno “Прекрасно” - beautiful, wonderful, excellent, and so on.

[@Dr.Phibes71]

Post apocalyptic Adam and Eve was a science fiction cliche of the 50s and 60s, and to jaded modern audiences it's a bit cheesy. But this was a particularly well done example.

[@CCaster2000]

The one thing I've always liked about Twilight Zone is the variety of endings each episode had. Most of the time the episodes ends on a dark & tragic note, but other times the endinfsnare bittersweet & ambiguous (such as this one). On some occasions the episodes even had good endings.

[@Galilee1964]

I see that even as they are walking off together, they are still each carrying their guns.

[@EvilTheOne]

The episode evolves pretty much the way a typical story does. For me, the small 'Twilight Zone' twist is the laser projectiles fired by the weapon. In my view, that suggest that this may be our future, if humans don't divert from our course of hate, division and wars. We may destroy enough of mankind (99.999999% of us) that it'll take an 'Adam & Eve' to start our civilization all over again. A lesson, courtesy of the 'Twilight Zone'.

[@vicbaez]

The laser guns took me a bit outside of the expirience

[@matsujonen]

Elizabeth Montgomery was so gorgeous

[@DK-un9km]

The great Elizabeth Montgomery brought me here.

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@MrsAlchymista]

Yeah, the word is „прекрасный“ :)

[@williamcrowe2576]

This almost predates "Enemy Mine". Almost.

[@angbandsbane]

It's not even all THAT of an optimistic ending, considering they're still both carrying their rifles. (Of course, post apocalypse, you might run into Warboys, Supermutants or zombies so...who knows)

[@brianfuller757]

This is an awesome episode. Serling wrote it and you get great performances from both Bronson and Montgomery.

[@pirobot668beta]

"Hell in the Pacific", "Enemy Mine" Two films that told the same story: former enemies learning to trust each other despite language barriers.

[@bruceeng3376]

Reedit quick and mention the iconic music...it got a lot of mileage.

[@TheCreepypro]

what a great episode

[@wstine79]

When Samantha Stevens and Paul Kersey enter the Twilight-Tober Zone.