A Stop At Willoughby - Twilight-Tober Zone
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- čas přidán 29. 10. 2020
- "A Stop At Willoughby" is a well conceived and executed story with great performances from the handful of actors that are focused on. Unlike the melancholy, but ultimately positive tone of a similar Twilight Zone episode "Walking Distance", this episode gives us a darker angle on a similar story. What did everyone think of this episode? Let us know in the comments!
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"A Stop at Willoughby" is episode 30 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling cited this as his favorite story from the first season of the series.
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The conductor should have been the one from the funeral home picking up the body. That would have been a perfect creepy ending.
Man, I can’t believe we’re almost at the end of Twilight-Tober, this should be a new Channel Awesome tradition
As someone with depression and anxiety, I can really relate to this character, since I always have this fantasy world where everything is better, in my head, than dealing with the real world
Willoughby is heaven and the reason he couldn't get off previously was because he wasn't dead yet, as soon as he died, he was able to get off the train. The train is also symbolic of being in purgatory.
This is probably one of the darkest episode of the Twilight Zone, being as it’s a metaphor for suicide
Theory: The conductor is the Grim Reaper
Willoughby looks more and more beautiful everyday may god find mercy on us
I never thought of it as him committing intentionally, I thought he genuinely believed in his mind that he was getting off at Willoughby, and when he died, his afterlife was the Willoughby he'd been dreaming of.
A stop at Willoughby was not Garth’s ending, but rather his new beginning..
There actually is a town called Willoughby, and apparently they have an annual festival there dedicated to this episode.
When I saw that one, I thought his soul went to Willoughby; but his body was left behind dead.
Rod Serling was ahead of his time when it came to the portrayals of mental health in fiction, especially since mental health was such a foreign concept to most people at that time.
No horror just peace. Serling’s depiction of death being that welcoming force is something he returned to time and again. May all of you be at peace when death comes.
I don't think Gart committed suicide, I think he really believed he was stepping off a stopped train. Whether or not he made it to Willoughby depends on whether or not you believe in the soul.
If you believe human spirituality and the afterlife is real then this man simply decided to move to a better neighborhood. I always found this episode to be charming.
Here's my theory for a stop at Willoughby, the train conductor is death and he's trying to tell the man that it's his time and he should go, that's why the conductor is always trying to entice him to Willoughby because he knows that he'll like it there more
I interpreted the ending as his supernatural escape into a more humane place. Which makes the conductor into a good guy; perhaps some sort of angel.
as someone who has contemplated suicide this episode sort of gets it. when you are at your all-time low you look for any kind of mercy. Willoughby with it's kind, pleasant and slow atmosphere is a personification of the mercy we think death will give us when we finally jump. I'm not saying that death is the answer because by any means you shouldn't kill yourself. But i think maybe this episode can help explain that feeling to people that don't understand that mind set and will give them something to think about on how much they could be pushing someone to the edge and to remember that the person they could be pushing is still indeed a person not a machine.
Right before he closed the shade on the commuter train that last time, the look on Gart's face said it all: THIS IS IT! WILLOUGHBY OR BUST!!! James Daly was absolutely brilliant in this episode