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The Twilight Zone Podcast

Showdown With Rance McGrew

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Twilight Zone goes back to the old west, but with a lighter tone than before in Showdown with Rance McGrew. Tom Elliot takes a look...

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0:00.0

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind,

0:15.0

a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

0:19.0

Your next stop, the Twilight's on.

0:21.6

The... In the 1950s and 1960s, movie and television westerns were as abundant as superhero films and TV shows are today

0:57.0

and the Twilight Zone itself had its fair share of visits to the Old West.

1:04.0

So far back in season one we had Mr Denton on Doomsday, the story of the alcoholic Mr. Denton being given a chance

1:13.9

at redemption from the Twilight Zone.

1:17.6

In execution, the villainous Joe Caswell was brought from the Old West to the future and

1:23.7

brought death with him.

1:26.3

In dust, a Mexican man sits in a jail cell waiting to be hung for causing the death of a young girl.

1:34.3

And in the grave, an All-Star Western cast delivers a story of revenge from beyond the grave.

1:42.3

So if we look at these stories, it seems that the Twilight Zone so far

1:47.8

has used the Western to deliver some of its grittiest tales. Alcoholism, revenge, tragedy, forgiveness,

1:56.9

the Twilight Zone Westerns weren't light-hearted, until now.

2:03.4

Perhaps playing on the audience's knowledge of the Twilight Zone's past, or maybe just

2:08.4

Western iconography in general, the opening of tonight's episode sees a couple of cowboys

2:14.4

stood looking down the centre of a typical western town but in a nice

2:20.1

moment of subverting expectations instead of a rider coming in on a horse we got our

2:27.5

star Rance McGrew driving in a car.

2:40.0

Well, it's about time. You're an hour and 15 minutes late, ranch.

2:42.0

Side, side, don't start that with me.

2:44.0

You know how emotional scenes upset me before we shoot.

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