**SPOILERS** #1 "Need to Know". A bit underwhelming twin episodes of the "New Twilight Zone" involving the meaning of life and everything that you always wanted to know about existence but were afraid to ask as well as a vampire infestation in a Siberian gulag in the then now defunct "Evil Empire" the USSR.
The first episode "Need to Know" tells those of us watching that knowing isn't everything if you know too much. That's too much for your brain to comprehend in what this the meaning of life and everything in between is really all about. This happened in a place called Loma County where someone somehow found out what it's all about and ended up losing his mind. Not only that everyone else who got the message, from word to mouth, ended up going crazy as well!
That's until the US Government sent a special agent to investigate this strange phenomenon Edward Sayers, William Petersen, who by finding out what the big secret, the meaning of everything in existence, really is ended up going as mad as a hatter as well! What the episode "Need to Know" tells you is that the less you know the better off you are.
#2. "Red Snow". In this episode of "The New Twilight Zone" Soviet KGB Agent Col. Ulyanov, George Dzundza, is sent on a secret mission to the upper reaches of the Siberian frozen wilderness to the village of Vercoda where the sun almost never shines. It's Col Ulyanov's job to find out why two Soviet officials ended up dead there possibly killed by the people living in the village.
Col.Ulyanov soon finds out that the two officials had been drained of all their blood and put on ice by the local villagers! It's later that Col.Ulyanov is attacked by a group of vampires lead by woman vampire Victoria Tennant whom he caught in the act of gorging herself on the blood of a wolf that she and her fellow vampires has just killed in the wild. Being the nice and understanding KGB officer, which is a rarity among KGB men, that he is Col. Ulyanov is not only allowed to live in that killing him would only bring attention to the group of vampires in Vercoda he's also allowed to join them!
In the end Col. Ulyanov is back in Moscow now a full fledged vampire, with fangs, making sure that his superiors in the KGB and Soviet Government are kept in the dark to what's going on in far off Vercoda. Col. Ulyanov's job now is not only to protect his fellow vampires but also himself, who'd be shot on the spot if found out, as well.
The first episode "Need to Know" tells those of us watching that knowing isn't everything if you know too much. That's too much for your brain to comprehend in what this the meaning of life and everything in between is really all about. This happened in a place called Loma County where someone somehow found out what it's all about and ended up losing his mind. Not only that everyone else who got the message, from word to mouth, ended up going crazy as well!
That's until the US Government sent a special agent to investigate this strange phenomenon Edward Sayers, William Petersen, who by finding out what the big secret, the meaning of everything in existence, really is ended up going as mad as a hatter as well! What the episode "Need to Know" tells you is that the less you know the better off you are.
#2. "Red Snow". In this episode of "The New Twilight Zone" Soviet KGB Agent Col. Ulyanov, George Dzundza, is sent on a secret mission to the upper reaches of the Siberian frozen wilderness to the village of Vercoda where the sun almost never shines. It's Col Ulyanov's job to find out why two Soviet officials ended up dead there possibly killed by the people living in the village.
Col.Ulyanov soon finds out that the two officials had been drained of all their blood and put on ice by the local villagers! It's later that Col.Ulyanov is attacked by a group of vampires lead by woman vampire Victoria Tennant whom he caught in the act of gorging herself on the blood of a wolf that she and her fellow vampires has just killed in the wild. Being the nice and understanding KGB officer, which is a rarity among KGB men, that he is Col. Ulyanov is not only allowed to live in that killing him would only bring attention to the group of vampires in Vercoda he's also allowed to join them!
In the end Col. Ulyanov is back in Moscow now a full fledged vampire, with fangs, making sure that his superiors in the KGB and Soviet Government are kept in the dark to what's going on in far off Vercoda. Col. Ulyanov's job now is not only to protect his fellow vampires but also himself, who'd be shot on the spot if found out, as well.