Parents looking to kick back and binge-watch the series with their kids may also be confounded by the show's decision to pepper in a ton of F-bombs and other profanities, which seems to be the main thing driving its TV-MA rating. The protracted runtime also gives viewers far too many chances to think about how little internal logic the show even has - stories break down under even the mildest scrutiny here. These themes are wasted when padded out with so much repetition and filler, which gives audiences far too long to guess the utterly predictable twists in one especially eye-rolling case, a character actually speaks the "surprise" ending out loud. (The original series made a similar misstep in its fourth season, a move that creator Rod Serling fiercely opposed.) The Twilight Zone has historically offered up creepy and memorable little fables that make you think about moral quandaries, about humanity, even about the nature of reality itself. The episodes are just too darn long: Old-school Twilight Zone eps clocked in at 30 minutes, while these are stretched out to an interminable 60 minutes on average, a length the stories just aren't strong enough to withstand. Rebooting a beloved genre series like this offered producers the chance to showcase inventive and fresh voices, but sadly, they've chosen to rehash tired old plotlines that even nostalgia can't save.
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