Customer Reviews:
 Quintessential Serling September 12, 2008
Jo Stanford (Southfield, MI)
"A Nice Place to Vist" is among my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. It brings together the usual Rod Serling elements of fantasy, drama and of course, the ironic, surprise ending. And like most of the episodes, this one has a social message about mankind's foibles and weaknesses. My favorite scene comes at the end -- I can still hear Burl Ives' sinister laughing while saying, "This is the other place." Watch it if you haven't already.
One of the essential T.Z. episodes illustrating the true state of human nature November 8, 2007
Jenny Y. Hernandez (Houston, TX USA)
Twilight ZoneOne of my favorite episodes (The Shelter #68 season 3). For 1.99 this is a great deal. I downloaded this episode because I was writing a paper over how it effectively illustrates the state of human nature, as seen through Thomas Hobbes philosophy. Definitely beat paying $5 for a rental. No commercials, good image, downloaded in one minute with ethernet here in my dorm.
 Unbox is Amateur September 26, 2007
Doug Morrisson (D.C. Metro Area)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Who the heck is "Red" Serling? Everybody knows it's ROd Serling. Unbox' error is not just a typo either, because it is repeated in several places. C'mon, Unbox! Don't insult classical TV like that!
 Too predictable September 5, 2007
Yoda (Hadera, Israel)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The viewer can see the conclusion this episode is going to only a third into it. Too predictable. Maybe original in its time but today a tale told too many times before.
This Has Been...a Love Story March 9, 2007
Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I finally made my first purchase from Amazon's Unbox Video Downloads just to try the service and am happy to report a solid customer experience. For $1.99, I purchased and downloaded one of my favorite episodes of "The Twilight Zone", and it took about twenty minutes to download through a broadband connection. I don't think it's the most ideal way to see full-length motion pictures, but for a 26-minute classic TV program, I think my 17" LCD monitor makes for a suitable viewing experience, and the video quality of the downloaded file is clean.
Aired on September 15, 1961 as the show's third season opener, the episode is a Cold War fantasy appropriately called "Two" about the last two survivors on earth, a man and a woman, after an apocalyptic world war in 2109. Written and directed by TV veteran Montgomery Pittman, the simple plot revolves around the complicating fact that he is an American infantryman and she is an invading Russian soldier. Like two feral animals, they glare at each other among the debris of a deserted town destroyed by the war. He even knocks her out her after she aggressively throws pots and pans at him. The reality of their solitary existence, however, gradually dawns on them, especially after they see an evening dress in a shop window inspiring her to speak her only word of dialogue - "Prekrassnyi" - the Russian word for "lovely".
What really makes this episode memorable is the unlikely casting. Two years before she twitched her nose on "Bewitched", a brunette Elizabeth Montgomery, looking appropriately ravaged and sporting a deadly ray gun, plays the untrusting Russian soldier with surprising fierceness and vulnerability. The American is played by perennial tough-guy Charles Bronson, fresh from "The Magnificent Seven". Even though he has to spout some inane philosophical lines to describe the futility of war, he leavens his natural sullenness with a determined romanticism. They make an odd couple, but it works splendidly. I also learned that canned fried chicken will become a staple in the 22nd century. Narrated by Rod Serling in his inimitably halting manner, the show ends with my favorite line in his signature postscript: "This has been...a love story." This is classic TV.
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