You might expect that in a movie or novel, but here, in the confines of this short tale, all is weird terror. There’s no attempt to explain that this is a conspiracy afoot, or space aliens doing this to him, or anything of the sort. Quite sensibly, The Twilight Zone doesn’t try to make anything more of it than that. To wake up one morning, certain of who you are, and realize the universe fundamentally disagrees with you on that point, well, that’s pure nightmare fuel. (In fact, the premise here is very close to the 1975 novel, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, though that story is far more elaborate.) Its hero, David Gurney, acts like kind of an asshole throughout-even before he knows what’s happened to him-but he still functions as the hero because what’s happening to him is so horrifying. “Person Or Persons Unknown” has the feel of a really good Phillip K. (Available on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon.) “Person Or Persons Unknown” (season 3, episode 27 originally aired )
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