You unlock this door with the key of imagination

I watched the premiere of the new Twilight Zone last night. My reaction can be summarized as "Enh," mostly because there was almost nothing new about it. How many times have we seen "bad things happen to misfits in exclusive private community"? There's no surprise left in this ending. Likewise, the second segment - a by-the-numbers retread of the Death-Takes-A-Holiday story - lurches to a conclusion as inevitable as death itself.

A show that pretends to the legacy of Serling's masterwork should have at least a few ideas not seen before. (Perhaps these plots might have been fresh 35 years ago... but I doubt it.) I can only hope that the next episode will have stories that aren't so very familiar to most of its audience.