moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (02/10/86)
Wanted to particularly comment on the very excellent, funny &
amusing "Welcome to Winfield" on the last (2/7) Twilight Zone.
This episode opens with a grimmer view of those
dressed-in-white accountants who populate Prudential ads and
escort various newly-dead people up the escalator to heaven (what
can we infer from this -- that only virtous people own Prudential
life insurance policies?). These commercials never show the
anguish or loss that their clients' departures induce; and this is
where the story begins, with a young couple on the run (the
husband is terminally ill, apparently) from one of these pristine
executives who intends to take the boy whose "number is up". As
the smarmy yuppie-like "agent of Death" is nigh all-powerful, you
have to wonder who can save the couple from eventual capture; the
answer is provided in this light-hearted episode, where about
twenty character actors (including Elisah Cooke, Alan Fudge and
Henry Gibson) have an infectiously good time portraying the
awfully nice folks of Winfield, a little town that Time remembers
even less than Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. If you missed it,
catch it again when it comes around on repeats.
Oh, and the adaptation of the Stephen King story by Harlan Ellison
is due on the Feb. 14th episode of TZ.
"All this self-sacrifice is *nauseating*!"
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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