Submitted for your approval: an episode entirely without metaphor. The statement itself is a bold one for The Twilight Zone , considering the original series had some of its best episodes with you-can’t-say-that-on-television masked by way of the tropes of science fiction, horror, and westerns. Yet “Replay” succeeds without metaphor, and eminently so. Indeed, in so far as commercials can spoil a story (hint: they can, exceedingly so), the shape of “Replay” was tipped loud and clear: racial profiling, and more, received by African-American mother Nina (Sanaa Lathan) and son Dorian (Damson Idris) at the hands of the droll and decidedly white Officer Lasky (Glenn Fleshler). As for what was shown in previews, the episode is just that: a ponderance on American racism, casual and powerful and sometimes both. However, the episode, directed by Gerard McMurray, is also very much more. As someone who likely will never be pulled over by a profiling police officer, the episode was for me a vivid,
Picard pieces together a deep Romulan conspiracy and presents it to Starfleet, albeit as an outsider. Narek keeps close tabs on his assignment. Matt and Pete chart episode 102, “Maps and Legends.”
Is there any way to fast forward through a podcast? I had listened to over an hour yesterday when I had to quit. I had noted the time so that it would be easy to pick up where I had left off, or so I thought. Problem was that the only way I could do that was not so easy - clicking on the 30 second FF circle over and over and over again. Luv the cast, guys.
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