The Twilight Zone: The Hitch-Hiker
Nov. 11th, 2025 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerNoticing “The Hitch-Hiker” had a female main character got my attention. There hadn’t been any Twilight Zone episodes I could say that about since “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine.” At the same time, though, I was and I am conscious of all the potential problems in “judging the past,” and of the potential problems in not making a big deal of that.
On a note closer to a number of other Twilight Zone episodes, it was possible to guess at the twist ending early on, but this didn’t get in the way of being able to appreciate the ominous, even frightening mood being created on the way. The mood did, perhaps, get in the way of casual considerations of a New York to Los Angeles road trip, whether that was something now more “once upon a time,” and whether it had been simulated with locations closer to Los Angeles itself. I also noticed just how much voiceover narration the main character was providing herself. It could have both given her more presence and felt unusual in the context of the series. When the end credits suggested the episode had been adapted from a radio play, though, it was easier to suppose that was where the voiceover had come from.
On a note closer to a number of other Twilight Zone episodes, it was possible to guess at the twist ending early on, but this didn’t get in the way of being able to appreciate the ominous, even frightening mood being created on the way. The mood did, perhaps, get in the way of casual considerations of a New York to Los Angeles road trip, whether that was something now more “once upon a time,” and whether it had been simulated with locations closer to Los Angeles itself. I also noticed just how much voiceover narration the main character was providing herself. It could have both given her more presence and felt unusual in the context of the series. When the end credits suggested the episode had been adapted from a radio play, though, it was easier to suppose that was where the voiceover had come from.