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That's Peter "Columbo" Falk playing totally not Fidel in the worst Twilight Zone episode (until the revival lmao)

You see, my wife, she's a big historical materialism fan. She loves that guy... aw geez, what was his name again? Lenin? Anyway, she was telling me without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. Isn't that something?

Anyway, I just thought I'd mention it cause you have a lot of books about this stuff. It's funny to me, though, they all look brand new.

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[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago

I've wondered how much of this episode was cold war brainworms and how much was "need to crank out scripts + topical for the time event + general nihilism + compulsory twist".

For a while I had assumed Rod Serling was cool because I erroneously thought he was the blacklisted writer behind Planet of the Apes but this episode slapped me right out of it.


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[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

It's funny to me, though, they all look brand new.

how are you all so good at columbo-posting I genuinely had no idea where this was going until the end doggirl-lol

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

The Statin and Revolution

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago

Loving the Columbo Trap House era/arc.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

is it the one with the mirror, i think ive listened to the radio play version

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes. It's called "The Mirror".

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. Prepare to enter The Scary Door

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fun ep. With Bad politics.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

To be fair, the amount Hitler Particles emitted from it is indistinguishable from background levels in the US

[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

extremely bad politics, not even trying to hide it as portraying the Cuban Revolution and Castro in a very negative light. Another episode that was obvious cold war propaganda was the episode "On Thursday We Leave for Home" , basically glorious Capitalist Individualism vs evil Soviet Collectivism.