Review of Elegy

The Twilight Zone: Elegy (1960)
Season 1, Episode 20
8/10
While there are men, there can be no peace.
20 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The irresistible Cecil Kellaway adds another memorable portrait to his array of lovable characters. A group of American astronauts lands on what seems to be Earth and encounters a series of life like creatures who aren't quite mannequins yet not really people. Along comes Kellaway at the most inopportune time to explain and the consequences which follow are eerily both surprising and undeniably true.

For most of this episode of "The Twilight Zone", the atmosphere is extremely light-hearted, but that is a foolish ideal to believe how it will unfold and conclude. As the astronauts (among them Jeff Morrow and Kevin Hague of "Little House on the Prairie") walk around, they encounter a farm dog, the farmer, a fisherman, a group of models and contestants in a beauty contest and finally Kellaway. Watching the astronauts deal with a scantily clad beauty contestants who won't even blink is amusing, imagining what would be going through their mind. it's up to Kellaway, as a typical wizened older character that record throughout various Twilight Zone episodes, to explain the moral and it is one that can still be understood nearly 60 years later.
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