I think I know.įun Fact: The original story was written by Lucille Fletcher, the wife of Bernard Herrmann, and had a male protagonist. But just know, for the first time, looking out at the night, I think I know. Somewhere among them, he’s waiting for me. Ahead of me, stretch of a thousand miles of empty Mesa. The stars that look down from the darkness. It’s as if someone had pulled out some kind of a plug in me, and everything, emotion, feeling, fear has drained out. But after learning why this man is following her and who he is, she resigns herself to her fate: Like any woman, Nan Adams (Inger Stevens) is terrified of the strange man following her everywhere she goes. Fun Fact: Like Gloria Swanson, Ida Lupino accepted her fading star very gracefully and made history as one of Hollywood’s first women directors, where she directed films like The Hitch-Hiker, The Bigamist, The Trouble With Angels and future TZ episode, “The Masks”. However, unlike Norma Desmond, Jean gets her happy ending in a more peaceful way. Trenton spends her days locked away in a room watching her films of yesteryear. Sharing a plot similar to Sunset Boulevard, where an aging actress (Ida Lupino) can’t accept that she’s not the superstar she used to be, Ms. Another note: Not all of the episodes were written by Serling but I’m including them anyway.īarbara Jean Trenton – “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine” If they’re secondary characters (“Little Girl Lost”) or part of an ensemble cast (“Five Characters In Search of An Exit”), they’re not included or we’d be here all day. Note: I only counted episodes where the women are the central characters of the story. Let’s enter the fifth dimension, meet these ladies and learn about their situations. Of the 156 episodes, 22 featured female protagonists and they were in some of The Twilight Zone‘s finest episodes. When hearing this I thought immediately of that article, so I decided to do a little digging. Vera Miles and the rest of us – in The Twilight Zone. I hope to see you next week, you in your living room and Ms. Ms.Vera Miles takes my side in a most unusual and unique story we call “Mirror Image”. … Settle an argument to the effect that I’m not at my best when writing scripts for women. It appears that Rod Serling was aware of this years before. Not surprisingly readers scoffed at the puff piece. According to the author of the post, TZ has a problem with women (and its racist! And predictable!). Back in 2014, Buzzfeed published an article ranking every Twilight Zone episode from worst to best.
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