S4YA S310 – The Midnight Sun – Twilight Zone

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Chris Osborne, from the Play Comics Podcast, joins me just as summer is heating up to discuss the uncomfortable “The Midnight Sun”!

Chris is the host of the Play Comics Podcast, a show that looks at how well video game adaptations of popular comics translate from their source material. He’s also the co-host of Meddling Kids Podcast where they talk about Scooby Doo!

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SHOW NOTES – The Midnight Sun

Originally aired: October 20th, 1961

Starring:

Directed by: Anton Leader (2 episodes – Long Live Walter Jameson)

Teleplay by: Rod Serling

You, Me, and IMDB Synopses:

  • You: The weather has gone horribly.
  • Me: As Earth hurtles from its orbit straight toward the sun, a young woman struggles to cool down.
  • IMDB: When the Earth falls out of orbit, two women try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned city

Discussion:

  • What are your initial thoughts?
  • Science!
    • It’s always sunny in New York
    • It’s always nighttime in New York
  • What would you have done if you knew the earth was going to end
  • Sympathy for the man
  • The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes
  • How effective the episode is in making you FEEL uncomfortably hot
    • Using Wax instead of paint with a heater behind it
  • Stray Observations
    • The Radio announcer dialogue
    • The gun she has
  • Submitted for Your Approval: alternate endings!
    • Let us know who wins @S4YA_Podcast
  • What do you rate the episode?
    • I give it 9/10 melted paintings

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