--- title: Why Jordan Peele Is Perfect to Remake 'The Twilight Zone' description: Jordan Peele, the filmmaker behind 'Get Out' and 'Us,' is the perfect heir to helm an update of 'The Twilight Zone,' premiering on April 1. canonical: https://time.com/5560234/jordan-peele-the-twilight-zone-remake-review/ author: Judy Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-28T09:49:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T23:09:59.423Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Review: Why Jordan Peele Is the Perfect Heir to Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling og:description: Peele's 'Twilight Zone' debuts April 1 on CBS All Access og:url: https://time.com/5560234/jordan-peele-the-twilight-zone-remake-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1a32bddaf99a674/6989476822fb857f02e2802e/time-off-twilight-zone-reviews.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Time Off Twilight Zone Reviews og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Review: Why Jordan Peele Is the Perfect Heir to Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling twitter:description: Peele's 'Twilight Zone' debuts April 1 on CBS All Access twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1a32bddaf99a674/6989476822fb857f02e2802e/time-off-twilight-zone-reviews.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Jordan Peele Is the Perfect Heir to _Twilight Zone_ Creator Rod Serling > Sponsored content. 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Hoping to make it to his first day at a historically black college without incident, they endure the cop’s casual racism. But when the officer sees an old camcorder recording, he reaches into the car and a scuffle ensues. Just as a gunshot seems inevitable, Nina hits the rewind button, and she and her son are transported back in time. Welcome to the new _Twilight Zone_, which is very much what you’d expect from a reboot of the classic sci-fi anthology series helmed and hosted by _Get Out_ mastermind Jordan Peele. (The comedian turned socially engaged filmmaker’s latest hit movie, Us, arrived in theaters in March.) The scene shares resonant details with the stories of Sandra Bland, Philando Castile and other black victims of widely publicized police violence. Yet the episode, “Replay,” isn’t just about one prototypical experience of oppression. Peele’s _Twilight Zone_, debuting on April 1 on subscription-only CBS All Access, is a dimension where the trauma that people–and communities–repress in order to move forward can throw the universe out of whack. For the protagonists of these stories, the past is a festering wound. In “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet,” an airplane-set vignette whose series of chilling last-minute twists rescues a plot that seems to be heading somewhere predictable, Adam Scott plays a journalist throwing himself into work too soon after a breakdown. “A Traveler” forces an indigenous Alaska state trooper (Marika Sila) to decide whom to trust: her power-tripping white boss (Greg Kinnear) or a mysterious foreigner (Steven Yeun) who appears at the station on Christmas Eve. Like Peele’s films, the show works on multiple levels, weaving together the personal and the political to craft characters as nuanced as its themes. “The Comedian” casts Kumail Nanjiani as an inept stand-up who discovers he can get laughs by discussing people he knows; the only problem is that the people he mentions instantly cease to exist. A case study in how one partner’s selfishness can eat away at a romance, the episode also functions as an astute metaphor for comedy’s parasitic relationship to the comedian’s life offstage. Occasionally these multitasking episodes go off the rails. But most of the time, they bend the mind and expand it at once. Whenever an old franchise resurfaces with updated values or more diverse personnel, some pushback is inevitable. The thing is, _The Twilight Zone_–which ran from 1959 to 1964, was rebooted in the ’80s and 2000s, and set a template for the comparatively repetitive tech-dystopia scenarios of _Black Mirror_–was always a progressive show. At a time when TV offered mostly light entertainment, Rod Serling used science fiction to cloak allegories for racism, censorship, nukes. That makes Peele an ideal successor–and it’s fitting that he’s made the return of the repressed the central metaphor of a revival emerging amid a resurgence of authoritarianism and white supremacy in America. What isn’t ideal is the show’s platform, a subscription service that capitalizes on legacy fan bases’ willingness to shell out for a _Good Wife_ spin-off or a new _Star Trek_. CBS reported in August that All Access had just 2.5 million subscribers–about 20% of _The Big Bang Theory_‘s weekly audience. By contrast, the original _Twilight Zone_ aired on CBS in an era when viewing options were very limited, and its easy accessibility was crucial to its influence. (Now, you can watch the old show on all major streaming services.) Peele’s update is fresh, smart, entertaining and inspired. 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