It's still a good life

You know what I would have preferred over the ending they did? Remember how his daughter made everyone disappear? Well as they were leaving the town I would have had the daughter look back while her father was distracted talking to the people in the car who were asking directions and cause all the people she "sent away" to reappear unharmed to show that she had not sent them to the "cornfield" or destroyed them but had merely temporarily sent them to another dimension for "safe keeping", and to boot that poor lady rendered mute as a punishment for her conspiracy would be amazed that she can speak again. In other words by freeing the residents of the town and undoing some of the damage done by her father it would show that unlike him she is NOT evil and will hopefully use her powers for good and because she is MORE powerful than him she can keep him in check as well.

You know what is REALLY disturbing about this episode? It is to my knowledge the ONLY Twilight Zone (or similar show like One Step Beyond or Outer Limits or Tales from the Dark Side) to have rape, that's right RAPE in it. Oh no rape was shown but for the continuity of the story a rape is almost certainly necessary.

Here is what I mean. I was watching a discussion about slavery on the Atheist Experience talk show and Tracie Harris was saying that when a slave has sex with her master its essentially a form of rape because she cannot say no. Even if he is not using physical violence he has power over her.

Well Anthony Freemont had to have sex with a woman to be a father (and where the hell was her mother, was she banished to the cornfield too?) and with his powers any woman who denies him sex if he wants it would almost certainly suffer a horrible fate, so its basically rape via threat.

I may be reading too much into it but it does weird me out a tad that Twilight Zone would have a story that requires a rape for it's continuity.

..Seriously? They just brought a WORSE monster to reign?

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It was only half-hour and I thought the acting was fine. Leachman was great when she finally got a chance to let everything out in front of both son Anthony and granddaughter Audrey. I was cringing as to what Anthony would do. Would he burn his own mother up before sending her to the cornfield? However, you're right about the ending and that it falls flat. It is a twist ending where we see Audrey has more powers than her Dad (we saw her gradual build up), but she still loves her Dad. That she has more powers and turned against her grandmother is terrifying to Agnes and the audience. At the end, we see Audrey can bring whole groups including the rest of the world to the cornfield and back. Like father, like daughter. She proclaims people better be nice to her and her Dad. What she did was bring the rest of the world except the town residents back. Thus, the twist ending.

I wanted to see pointing finger scene and you're a bad man, a very bad man by a grown Anthony, but I suppose that would've been childish ha ha.

I found it surprising he would have a wife and a daughter. Who would marry him? I guess he could make someone.