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Life in the ‘Twilight Zone’

Today on Jewcy: How Rod Serling’s identity as a Jewish WWII vet shaped the iconic show

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February 06, 2018

If television had a prophet, he was called Rod Serling, a Space Age Jeremiah, come to edify the masses. So long has his reputation stretched over the medium, that any anthology series produced in its wake—from British import Black Mirror to the recently premiered Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams—is often tagged as “The Next Twilight Zone.” Chided gently these days for the same bluntness that ensures the show’s longevity, Serling’s weekly doses of mussar nevertheless characterized The Twilight Zone as a series informed by his experiences as a veteran and a Jew writing in the aftermath of World War II.

Gabriela Geselowitz is a writer and the former editor of Jewcy.com.

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