Posts Categorized "Twilight Zone – Gender Roles Throughout the Series"
by Grace White
Summary: A musician accidentally enters a time loop that ends with his death when he talks a girl into giving him her folk song. Bechdel Test: Fails…
Summary: Dying, Jason forces his family to wear masks that represent their ugly natures in order to get their inheritance, but their faces end up looking like the…
Summary: Marilyn is trying to avoid a required procedure that makes her look like the “ideal” woman, but she is eventually forced into it. Bechdel Test: Passes!…
Summary: An elderly man believes he will die when his grandfather clocks runs down, and he is freed when he lets go of this idea. Bechdel Test:…
Summary: When his step-daughter gets a talking doll, conflict arises between Eric and all of those in his household, including the doll, which eventually murders him. Bechdel…
Summary: After the mother of three children dies, their father gets them a robotic grandmother that takes care of them. Bechdel Test: Passes! Anne and Karen talk…
Summary: Two astronauts land on a planet needing to make repairs, and one of them finds a civilization of tiny people, which he acts like a cruel god…
Summary: A man buys his wife a player piano for her birthday, but, when the piano plays, people show their innermost selves. Bechdel Test: Passes! A few…
Summary: An old woman, who is hiding from “Mr. Death,” lets a wounded police officer into her home, not realizing it is “Mr. Death” in disguise. Bechdel…
Summary: A six-year-old named Anthony can control everything with his mind, causing everyone around him to live in fear, hoping that he won’t murder them… or worse. …
Summary: A man has a dream that he is being executed for a crime that he didn’t commit over and over again, and he spends his time trying…
Summary: Liz is in the hospital and keeps having a “dream” that a series of events happen (they are always the same) leading her to the morgue (room…
Summary: When a man flips a coin and it lands on its side, he begins hearing people’s thoughts. Originally only causing problems at work, it eventually leads to…
Summary: A man and woman rob an antique store, finding a camera that tells the future. Using the camera, the couple and the woman’s brother bet money on…
Summary: Janet’s face is covered in bandages, as she has had a procedure done in the hopes of not being extraordinarily ugly in a conformists society; when she…
Summary: A woman ends up on a “non-existent” floor of a department store, and she soon remembers that she is a mannequin who had taken a month long…
Summary: Rocky dies, thinks he wakes up in heaven, but learns he is in Hell. Bechdel Test: There are several women in the episode Only one woman…
Summary: After the power goes out in a neighborhood, a boy shares the plot of a comic book, causing the neighborhood to become paranoid. The neighbors are afraid…
Summary: A man named Archie is a con man who has the ability to change his face at will. Using this power, Archie makes himself look like dead…
Summary: A bank teller loves to read, but everyone around him (customers, his boss, his wife) won’t let him read. One day, he hides in a vault to…