Between Light & Shadow

The Twilight Zone Marathon is airing on the SyFy channel this year. Watching it during New Year’s Eve weekend is a ritual for many Americans (including moi). The television series, which ran 1959-64, was created by the brilliant Rod Serling. His brainchild has shown remarkable staying power. Chalk it up to the timelessness of the morality tale well told. It’s even trending on Twitter today. “There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.” That is the Twilight Zone as famously narrated by Serling at the top of each show. Curiously, it is also a pretty good description of politics in 2010, a set of spooky tales no less surreal than Serling’s science fiction.