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- "The Midnight Sun" features a very simple, but massive in scope premise that effectively captured and maintained the viewers attention across it's twenty-six minutes. Join Walter as he continues his deep dive into The Twilight Zone.
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"The Midnight Sun" is episode 75 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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Well the idea of eventually burning up or freezing to death in a world going way off orbit is scary enough. What really frightened me was when the intruder broke into Norma's apartment! I was afraid at first because I thought that he was going to rape them! But when he told of losing his wife and baby to the heat I simply felt sorry for him.
I liked it immensely, the suspense was very well built up, and I didn't see the ending coming.
You left out the little-known fun fact that this is perhaps the only episode, where Rod Serling's presence is noticed by the characters. Also, in my opinion, it's better for the Earth move away from the Sun than towards it because then, people can move underground where it's warm.
Loved it!
To me, the twist was meant to emphasize the tragedy: she made up a fantasy so horrible, that the reality was just slightly bearable.
What's worse, burning or freezing to death?
@@brandonmedina494 Whichever it is, if you're doing one, you'd probably wish for the other.
Having the Earth doomed to an ice age is a lot better because people can still play with snow for a while unlike having the Earth burn and everyone living their life in hell.
@@brandonmedina494at least you can find warmth if it were freezing. Don't know how you'd escape a heating earth, except going deep underground
In an ice age scenario a handful of humans could still probably survive underground using geothermal heat, at least for a time. In a scenario where the Earth is inevitably going to crash into the Sun, there's really nowhere to hide.
This is without a doubt one of the scariest episodes. The imagery, the acting, all make for one frightening episode
Soooo true
Agreed, impending doom can easily happen, especially after the pandemic, we can easily relate.
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The way the threat isn’t a person or someone who can be reasoned with makes it scarier. This is a natural phenomenon on overdrive, at its most extreme. All that’s left to do is to deal with the situation when there’s no end in sight.
He claims the episode says nothing other than “Humanity doomed in case of doomsday”. This is very wrong! Midnight Sun is a story of desperation and a person’s final acts while at death’s door: will they be selfish, will they panic, will they prioritize the happiness of others? Does it matter when they all die all the same? Why should we be kind in our final moments? Will our kindness be rewarded? Does the absence of reward make a kind person kinder? Question upon question…
This is one of those episodes that serves as an example of how to handle an expansive premise in just 26 minutes. Something that many shows afterwards couldn't do as effectively.
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""The Midnight Sun" features a very simple, but massive in scope premise that effectively captured and maintained the viewers attention across it's twenty-six minutes. "
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Wow, congratlations. You tried to do the trick every high school student did; rephrasing sentences to try to get away with plagiarism.
@@mad_max21 lol
But tbh that's fairly common, rephrasing or rearranging sentences
The twist ending is frankly something of a relief. Between the choice of freezing to death and burning to a crisp, well, "let it snow, let it snow, let it snoooooow!"
Agreed. Both suck but at least with the cold you can get nice and snug before you die of dehydration or something. With the heat it's suffering right up until you finally black out.
And at least the cold will let you gently die, just nod off to sleep and never wake again.
As much as I hate the snow I rather take that over the humidity, I’m more of a autumn person than winter person.
It would’ve been funny if an instrumental version of that song were playing as the soundtrack.
The other issue being that while you'd lose a great deal of humanity theoretically life could still survive underground. Water would the Frozen but accessible geothermal heat would still exist and so on.
A nightmare scenario to be sure of course, but if the Earth went hurtling towards the Sun all the water on the planet would evaporate let alone the Planet itself would cease to exist entirely when the sun enveloped it.
This is my favorite episode. The characters all try to go about their day-to-day lives as if they're not all going to die, which is literally what we're all doing anyways just on a shorter time scale.
One of my favorite things is how much Norma does to try and keep things as lighthearted and hopeful as possible. When Ms. Bronson says she's acting like a wild animal over juice, Norma tries to get her to laugh by telling her how she crazily ran around the store, knocking everything over and apparently somehow still being the calmest there. When she gets scared, Norma tries to comfort her by saying the people reporting the weather on the radio are scared too, and she's not alone. When she's begged to not paint the sun anymore, and instead paint a beautiful waterfall, she fights through the heat and paints it for Ms. Bronson, just to give her a smile and a bit more hope.
I think that's what really makes Norma's panic at towards the end all the more sad. She's done everything she can, but none of it will stop the sun from growing closer and closer. In the end, there's nothing left she can do.
VERY well analyzed! Add to: The nightmare heat was Norma's own FEVER dream!
This is my favorite episode of the show. The simply but unique premise is great and there's just something about it that gets under my skin! The atmosphere and tone is so despondent, you really get the feeling that there's no escaping the doom the characters are heading towards. The music in particular is great, it's so odd and creepy.
I love that the character tries to remain upbeat and hopeful, it almost makes it worse! You want to believe there's some way for her to succeed but the episode makes you feel like there's no chance of that. The man's speech about losing his family is heartbreaking.
It's also notable how even though everyone is doomed, the basic animal drive to survive leads people to do stuff like steal water just to prolong life a little longer.
Definitely going to give this a watch this month I’m really enjoying the twilight zone and Walter’s review of the episodes are great.
I love how this “It was all a dream” idea was flipped on it’s head here
i usually hate those twist because it makes the story meaningless, you know like in twilight or that episode from the new adventures of batman, but here is one of the few examples in how to do it right
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I disagree. “Over the Edge” (the Batman episode I assume you’re talking about) was exploring a what-if without having to break the status quo. Having it be a dream helped that aspect be clear, as well as turning it into a character study into the psychology of Batgirl, a well-established character.
This TZ episode making it a dream doesn’t add anything to the story. It just sets up an irony for irony’s sake.
Ergo, this episode’s use of the all-just-a-dream ending is meaningless compared to the Batman example.
@@BlackCover95 sure and batgirl entire subplot in the killing joke was needed to "understand" her character.
I don't care if its a "what if", honestly i wouldn't be mad if it was an actual what if and not a just a last minute dream, unlike something like "perchance to dream" were they give you hints at the beggining that it can, or not, be a dream, theres ZERO hints that it was a dream specially since barbara barrelly has a part in that story outside of the ending and beeing fridged at the begging. hell the episode didn't even started with batgirl getting knockout, it started with batman and robin beeing chase down by the police and the entire episode acted like shit got real and this is actually happening like the friggin red wedding from game of thrones. But nope it was a dream making it more frustrasting than someone dreaming an oposite apocalipse from the one shes living, plus she is not even a recuring character like the bat family she is just one story arc character like the boy who yell the wolf or ebenezer scrooge.
This one scared the SHIT out of me when I first saw it. The melting paintings were so incredibly effective.
You can definitely feel the heat both from the Sun and from the tension in this episode.
As a person living in a city where it's HOT ALL YEAR, this is my worst nightmare.
Sounds a lot like global warming!
are you from ecuador?
Welcome to Arizona. Where its hot majority of the year and only during late fall to winter is it colder. : D
@@UrSammich In my city, it's all year long. There are only two seasons: rainy and dry. In the rainy season, when it's not raining, it's EVEN HOTTER.
California summers here are brutal. I consider it a blessing when rainstorms happen.
my fav Twilight episode. For the future, will be cool also a Night-vember Gallery maybe! after all the Twilight-tober zones
Yes. This all the way. I grew up watching reruns of Night Gallery as a kid and that was the one show/movie situation that scared the hell out of me. There are episodes I'm pretty sure I'd still refuse to watch because they creeped me out so bad as a kid.
coming 2026?
@@NewPaulActs17 or even before why not
@@clown599 I'd say Walter already spends a good chunk of the year between each October putting this series together.
@@MandleRoss ooh i know.. Just tossing ideas for distante future
This was a pretty insane episode with the Earth hurtling towards the Sun.
Then she wakes up and it turns out the Eaarth is hurtling away from the sun.
This is one of those rare occasions where the, "It was all a dream," actually works.
One of my favorite episodes. Not many stories can pull off the it was all a dream cliche but this episode has a neat take on it.
beats the dream cliche b/c it of the fever-flip!
My favorite story about this episode was how they managed to accomplish the “melting painting” affect. They had an artist paint the painting in wax on a hot plate, then just turned it on.
yes, that was ingenious!
I think a big part of this episode's terror factor is how completely helpless they are. The whole planet is doomed, there's no getting away, and it's not entirely impossible. All it would take would be a major event in the solar system to send the delicate orbits of the planets - Earth included - out of whack.
It is hard to believe that this show is almost sixty years old. I can't think of even one show that is current that people will be talking about, with passion, that people will be talking about in sixty years.
This was one of the most memorable because of the "logical" aspect of the twist ending -- that she was burning up with a fever while the world was freezing.
This is one of my favorite episodes. There is such a huge sense of dread.
The Twist was pure genius, I was genuinely taken by surprise when I first watched the episode. Usually I dislike the "It was only a Dream" plots... But the reality was SO much worse! 😱
Not really, I'd much rather freeze. Dying from being too hot is agony all the way, when you're frozen you'll get too a point of being numb and won't feel it at the end. Note we're talking about dying here, not just being uncomfortable.
It was, for the most part. I’m with you, with disliking the “it was all a dream” most of the time, but sometimes it works
Easier yo heat up than to cool down.
@@Omar-wq9dz The "It's all a dream" can work if the reality is harsher, or if it is a deus-ex machina in universe that the main character begged for (as seen in grant morrison's animal man)
What made the Zone ep work is that the "only a dream" part was b/c of the fever! The climatic horror of the ending, blazing heat - including PAINT melting and running - SOLD the closing reality that her fever had "reversed" reality. Wow.
Saw this one during a particularly hot Texas summer; made it almost unbearable, until the surprise ending, which actually was a moment of relief. Also saw this during a miserably cold Northern winter's day and it made it feel warmer, though made the characters' problem less dire for me, until that ending, which I had forgotten by then, making me feel even more freezing than before. Love how powerful this show can be thanms to such stellar acting, directing, writing and whatever else goes into making good TV.
I watched this episode this morning, and it became one of my favorite episodes of the show.
Finally, we've reached my all-time favorite episode! I've been waiting for this one for years. It may not be quite as iconic to the series as episodes like "Time Enough At Last", "It's a Good Life", "To Serve Man", or "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", but for my money, the way the tension in this one is slowly ratcheted up, second by second, minute by minute, makes it a masterclass in suspense. The scoring plays a big role in that. And as a painter myself, I absolutely _adore_ the melting painting effect toward the end. I also feel that, out of a series that made a hallmark out of bleak twist endings, this may just be one of the bleakest.
2.4k views in 26 minutes? WOW! We LOVE this series, please do them all if you can and want to!
The most memorable part of this episode for me was when Ms. Bronson was begging Norma to paint images of cool things, like waterfalls, and seeing her cling onto the images for some kind of mental relief.
Not intentional but, with environmental changes and global warming I feel like this episode gets more real every year. We might not be hurtling towards the sun but, as the summers get hotter I can’t help but, think about what it will be like in another 20 or 30 years while watching this episode.
This episode hits a lot harder, the execution is exaggerated, but given the current rise of heat waves and the frightening shortages of water supply. I can see this story being a reality in some capacity.
One of my favorite Twilight Zone" episodes,I love these episodes where the main villain/threat is something that is inevitable". The characters can't stop what's the come,but they try their damnedest to try and survive for as long as possible. Only to accept their fate,it's grim but definitely one of my favorite tropes in shows/movies.
This is one of my favorite episodes. It’s legitimately frightening, and has a really cool twist ending. Also, it never wastes a minute.
One of my fav TZ episodes and the actress was beautiful.
Two interesting facts about Lois Nettleton:
-She was married for a while to humorist Jean Shepherd (the "Christmas Story" guy).
-She was a guest star in a memorable Golden Girls episode, as Dorothy's lesbian friend who'd just lost her longtime partner and developed a crush on Rose.
That episode scarred me for years when I was a child.
Because here, the end of the world wasn't a war or a alien invasion. It was ... random luck. Nothing you can do against.
I watched it a few month back, it still works great ... especially since we manage the 'overheat' by ourself more and more.
This is my all time favorite episode! When I saw it the first time my first reaction to how big the sun was, "Whoa!" My dad had told me about it beforehand even the ending because he likes this episode too!
Love the original audio from Twilight Zone and other shows from the same time period, some of the best ASMR out there.
When you finish Twilight-Tober Zone, you gotta talk about Night Gallery as your replacement
A perfect episode for anyone who needs some gratitude that our lovely blue marble can sustain us. And for anyone who needs the motivation to make sure this planet stays healthy.
I got introduced to Twilight Zone during a labor day tv marathon. They played a bunch of episodes, not in order, and this one shook me the most. The hoplessness is so effective. In most other episodes there's something you can do, but here you are just waiting with no control, unsure how long it will continue.
This episode literally traumatized me as a kid. To this day, I still technically haven't watched it from beginning to end, because it just freaked me out too much. As a kid, I hated the heat, as i, like most people, knew about how with the cold you could at least put on more layers, but with the heat there's only so much you can do to make yourself feel cooler. At least with the winter you can just put on more blankets at night and wrap yourself up in your own body heat, but when it's already hot outside, taking the blanket off at all is just uncomfortable, and if you're still hot after that then you're kind of screwed.
I remember watching this episode and then going up to my room and just seeing the sun beating in through the window, and I immediately closed the curtains and hit under the bed because I somehow thought that would help keep me cooler.
While I know enjoy the summer more than the winter, even to this day, I refuse to watch this episode during the summer.
Thanks, Walter, for doing a review about this episode. Actually, I had been thinking of leaving a comment to ask if you would post a review of The Midnight Sun episode. The descriptions and commentary are well done!
This one is a common on for stages to adapt for the Serling Festivals that happen. Its so easy to do but can be pretty intense with the right people. I played Norma once.
This is one of my favorite episodes! The imagery of the painting melting is so cool to look at and the end twist is one of my favorites.
This was one of the first episodes of the TZ I remember seeing and it stuck with me ever since. The thought of how the characters would perish in such an agonizing way plus finding out the twist would still lead to the same result made 8 year old me think a little differently about life and think about it just a little more cynically.
One of my faves, I remember my dad had the VHS sets and we watched this episode during a hot summer night.
Love this always....love from India......The twilight zone is the best show ever in the history of television
this was the absolutely scariest episode of the TZ for me. The fact that it isn't very far fetched and the ending shots with the thermometer breaking, the melting paint, and her super unsettling scream, plus that brief sense of security only for us to realize there is no hope. absolutely horrifying.
There are around a dozen episodes that I love the most and this is one of them.
Definitely in my top 5 Twilight Zone episodes-terrifying
This is one of my all time favorites!
Great episode and a credit to the series. Unbelievably well acted last scene. As good as Norma is in her final part, Mrs. Bronson steals the scene with “Yes my dear…it’s wonderful”.
I don't know what it tells about me, but "Tropic Thunder" forever connects the Tug Speedman trailers to this episode.
Wow, Rod managed to make the "it was all a dream" twist work! I'm impressed!
One of my favorite episodes!
Yes, I like this episode too. Worth coming back for!
I've been waiting for this review for years. I remember reading the graphic novel in middle school, alongside the graphic novels for The Odyssey of Flight 33 and The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. I'd never heard of The Twilight Zone until then and those novels sparked an interest in that style of horror that's stayed with me into adulthood. Even watching this video I could see the equivalent scenes from the novel still fresh and colorful in my head. It may not have been the best episode, but the story has had a lasting impact on me. As a resident of the frozen north of Maine, and after spending a year in the California Desert, I can honestly say that the midnight sun would be my personal nightmare. Excellent dissection of the themes!
What a great episode! All of the Earth-burning terror shown to be a fever-based fantasy. Only to be shattered to its opposite, in reality, when her fever breaks! The mastery of the tale being what the brain can conjure and what we are fighting for it to do so. The way her friend was so "confused" about how she murmured about the cool feeling SO good.
Being someone from Texas, who absolutely hates hot weather and the sun, this is definitely a version of hell for me.
This one was the only episode that kept me up at night.
I watched this episode in the summer when I was alone with my cat nephew. It was late at night, and it creeped me out…
I live in Texas and I watched this episode of the Twilight Zone in the summer, so I can relate to the main characters.
Honestly, I give it credit for being one the only twilight zone episodes I’ve seen that actually freaks me out
Probably my favorite episode.
This has been my favorite episode since I was a child. So terrifying.
WALTER I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I LOVE THIS SERIES AND YOU DO A VERY GOOD JOB AND EVERYONE WORKING ON THIS DOES A VERY GOOD JOB AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS EVERY YEAR AND I WILL BE SAD WHEN THIS ENDS AND
I haven’t seen this episode, but I now plan to. It reminds me of my favorite episode of Night Gallery.
When I went to Ithaca College, they talked about the effectiveness of music in the Twilight Zone and played this episode afterwards.
It's significant because the episode name drops Ithaca NY, and the college has his archives and some of his Emmys.
My favorite episode.
My absolute favorite !
Great video.
I love this episode.
Classic Episode
“Crazy dames. It’s too hot to play games.” I chuckle when he says that.
Another one of my favorites.
Now this was a great twist!
One of a few I remember from when it first aired.
This is the one episode that scared me the most. The monster isn’t a ghost or an alien or a werewolf or even other people, it’s nature itself. The orbit changes, there’s not a DAMN THING us puny humans can do about it. All we can do is wait for our death, suffering more and more each day.
True. Even when most people were moving further north or south depending on both scenarios they were only prolonging the inevitable.
Which is why it's so stupid right now with all the nonsense about trying to stop "climate change." The climate is always changing! In the 70s it was global cooling, LOL!
It's easily my favorite episode.
A keen analysis.
Oh, my goodness that was such a good ending line.
One of my favorite 😍
1 of the best episodes in my opinion.
Another great one. I get overheated easily and am susceptible to illness because of temperature so this is one of those concepts that personally terrifies me
Ever thought of moving to a colder climate?
@@graciegj63 Teachers lie when they say there's no such thing as a stupid question.
@@graciegj63 I live in Missouri where the weather changes constantly. The saying is ,"If you don't like it, wait a couple of hours and things will change."
Not to mention, financial constraints keep me from moving.
I am just saying when the heat becomes extreme like in July and August is when I am most likely to become seriously ill. Luckily, I work from home so I only go out when I absolutely have to and do things to combat that heat like showering in the middle of the day instead of at night or drinking lots of water.
The migraines occur whenever a cold front comes through and severe storms pop up. I usually take medicine and lie down until it passes.
However, because of these physical discomforts in my real life, that's why The Midnight Sun for me is one of those episodes that I find the most haunting.
@@julieporter7805 Ok, yea I didn't figure in financial reasons for why you can't move. But at least you found a method to deal with it until winter gets here. :)
Another classic one for me.
Even after multiple re-watches, it still scares the hell out of me.
Whenever there is an extremely hot summer here in India I remember this episode
Lois Nettleton in night gallery? hell yea!
♫ Let the Midnight Sun shine a light on me! ♫
I remember my junior year in hs (2017), my theater department let the seniors do one acts and my friend Xavier adapted this for the stage.
I'm a SE Texas native, this show describes every year during the summer here. Hot burning death.
My favorite episode, I remember getting into it due to the comic.
This hits differently in 2022
I looooooooove this episode!
If they made the set as hot as you say and that is real sweat, that set must have stunk
My favorite Twilight Zone twist
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It's interesting that in Norma's fever dream, she's the stronger and calmer one and Mrs. Bronson is the more hysterical one, while the reality is just the opposite.
I remember seeing this episode for the 1st time during the summer day and I said never looked at the sun the same way again
This reminds me of the game, Don't Escape 4. Had a similar thing where the MC dies from different world ending events over and over, waking up to a new one each time.
Maybe you should do a themed month for ‘Night Gallery’ and a review of the graphic novel. Those sound fun.
This always puts me in mind of The Day The Earth Caught Fire.