As with some Twilight Zone episodes, this one is more an interesting premise than an interesting story. But it is an interesting premise. Imagine someone yelling "cut!" on your life.
One thing about this episode, though, it's open to multiple interpretations. What's *really* going on? Which "reality" is real? Or are both of them? Is Reagan having delusions of being actually being the character he's playing, Curtis? Or is *Curtis* the one having a delusion, the delusion of being in some other reality where his home, family, and company don't exist? Or are both realities somehow simultaneously true? That's the weirdest, but most interesting possibility.
An unanswered question which might give us a clue: *Does* Reagan/Curtis know more about Curtis' life than is contained in the script? It's odd that he can't manage to remember any telephone numbers. Yet he knows all the addresses. Seems unlikely a man wouldn't remember his own telephone number, yet it seems equally unlikely that a movie script would include the address of the office building in which a businessman character works.
Serling's voice-over provides equal contradiction. In the intro, he states that Curtis is a real flesh-and-blood man. Yet in the outro, as Curtis is flying away, Serling suggests he's flying off to the Twilight Zone. That would only be so if it were *Reagan* who was real; if Curtis is real, then, flying away on the airplane, he's back in reality and has successfully *escaped* the Twilight Zone.
Most interesting. What do *you* think?
One thing about this episode, though, it's open to multiple interpretations. What's *really* going on? Which "reality" is real? Or are both of them? Is Reagan having delusions of being actually being the character he's playing, Curtis? Or is *Curtis* the one having a delusion, the delusion of being in some other reality where his home, family, and company don't exist? Or are both realities somehow simultaneously true? That's the weirdest, but most interesting possibility.
An unanswered question which might give us a clue: *Does* Reagan/Curtis know more about Curtis' life than is contained in the script? It's odd that he can't manage to remember any telephone numbers. Yet he knows all the addresses. Seems unlikely a man wouldn't remember his own telephone number, yet it seems equally unlikely that a movie script would include the address of the office building in which a businessman character works.
Serling's voice-over provides equal contradiction. In the intro, he states that Curtis is a real flesh-and-blood man. Yet in the outro, as Curtis is flying away, Serling suggests he's flying off to the Twilight Zone. That would only be so if it were *Reagan* who was real; if Curtis is real, then, flying away on the airplane, he's back in reality and has successfully *escaped* the Twilight Zone.
Most interesting. What do *you* think?