Eye of the Beholder (2003 The Twilight Zone episode)
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"Eye of the Beholder" is the thirty-ninth episode of the science fiction
television series 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone
. The episode aired April 30, 2003 on UPN
. It is a remake of the 1960 episode "The Eye of the Beholder
".
The outcome of the procedure cannot be known until the bandages are removed. Tyler starts to go berserk with the doctor and eventually convinces him to remove the bandages early. After a climactic buildup, the bandages are removed, revealing to the audience that she is beautiful.
However, the reaction of the doctor and nurses is disappointment; the operation has failed, her face has undergone "no change — no change at all". There are gasps, even sympathetic remarks from the nurses. Janet tries to run, but they restrain her—-and then turn on the light.
At this point, the doctor, nurses and other people in the hospital, whose faces have never been seen clearly before, are now revealed to be grotesquely deformed in the audience's perspective, faces with thick melted skin like plastic, deep ridges and in the shape of muddled clay. Looking ghoulish and sagging with deep ridges. Distraught by it all, Janet runs through the hospital as the terrible faces of everyone she runs into, the norm in this society, are revealed. Plasma screens throughout the hospital project an image of the state's despotic leader (sounding like the radical leader of a fascist demagogue), demanding "that the ugly must be no longer allowed in our society." He tells us all "conformity must be worshiped and held sacred." She smashes the big screen, causing the gel to spill everywhere. But there are many others all around with the leader's fearsome face and voice, still spreading his message of totalitarianist propaganda.
Eventually, a handsome man afflicted with the same "condition" arrives to take the crying, despondent Tyler into exile to a village of her "own kind", where her "ugliness" will not trouble the State. Before the two leave, the man comforts Tyler with the "very, very old saying" that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". The two walk off as the doctors and nurses all look on in empathy.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
television series 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone (2002 TV series)
The Twilight Zone is a 2002 revival of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone. It aired for one season on the UPN network, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host....
. The episode aired April 30, 2003 on UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
. It is a remake of the 1960 episode "The Eye of the Beholder
The Eye of the Beholder
"The Eye of the Beholder" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:...
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Opening narration
Synopsis
A hospital patient by the name of Janet Tyler has just undergone her eleventh treatment in an attempt to look like everybody else. The details of the treatment are not given. Tyler is first shown with her head completely bandaged, so her face cannot be seen. She is described as being "not normal" by the nurses and doctor, whose own faces are always either in shadows or off-camera. Janet talks of how she enjoys looking up at the clouds, feeling the sun and the beautiful night. The nurses speak about how horrible she looks.The outcome of the procedure cannot be known until the bandages are removed. Tyler starts to go berserk with the doctor and eventually convinces him to remove the bandages early. After a climactic buildup, the bandages are removed, revealing to the audience that she is beautiful.
However, the reaction of the doctor and nurses is disappointment; the operation has failed, her face has undergone "no change — no change at all". There are gasps, even sympathetic remarks from the nurses. Janet tries to run, but they restrain her—-and then turn on the light.
At this point, the doctor, nurses and other people in the hospital, whose faces have never been seen clearly before, are now revealed to be grotesquely deformed in the audience's perspective, faces with thick melted skin like plastic, deep ridges and in the shape of muddled clay. Looking ghoulish and sagging with deep ridges. Distraught by it all, Janet runs through the hospital as the terrible faces of everyone she runs into, the norm in this society, are revealed. Plasma screens throughout the hospital project an image of the state's despotic leader (sounding like the radical leader of a fascist demagogue), demanding "that the ugly must be no longer allowed in our society." He tells us all "conformity must be worshiped and held sacred." She smashes the big screen, causing the gel to spill everywhere. But there are many others all around with the leader's fearsome face and voice, still spreading his message of totalitarianist propaganda.
Eventually, a handsome man afflicted with the same "condition" arrives to take the crying, despondent Tyler into exile to a village of her "own kind", where her "ugliness" will not trouble the State. Before the two leave, the man comforts Tyler with the "very, very old saying" that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". The two walk off as the doctors and nurses all look on in empathy.