Tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone is another one of those existential stories of dread that I love so much. An army officer wakes up to find himself trapped in a cylindrical room. He has no idea how he got in there. He can’t even remember his name. All he knows is that 1) there doesn’t appear to any way out and 2) he’s trapped with four others; a hobo, a clown, a bagpiper, and a ballet dancer.
The officer wants to escape but, as his fellow prisoners explain to him, existence is pain.
This episode originally aired on December 22nd, 1961.
Through the Shattered Lens 
Cesar Romero getting warmed up for his role as TV’s Joker!!
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Five characters is a good episode, except I have one thing to pick at. An army sergeant is trapped in a strange circular nothing with seemingly no way to escape, and he’s trapped there with four other oddball people. My nitpick is how come the sergeant is the only one desperate to get out of there and that he’s the only one who’s even worried and notices there’s a real problem here. He states, along with the others, that he can’t remember who he is, but the other characters seem totally content and even stupified. They all seem happy just to stay as they are with no ambitions to try to get out or even question each other on any gameplans. The sergeant makes all the moves on organizing everyone else on strategies for escape such as forming a human ladder. I still like the surprise twist at the end, though.
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In my review above, instead of the word stupified, I meant to use the word nonchalant.
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In my review above, I meant to use the word nonchalant instead of stupified.
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