![]() ![]() Then there is the episode’s conclusion, which is incredibly frightening and is probably the episode’s greatest strength. Collin Wilcox really becomes her character, who is significantly younger than she is in real life. It kind of feels like a lesser version of a previous entry of The Twilight Zone, Eye of the Beholder. Number 12 Looks Just Like You is good, but not excellent. ![]() Can Marilyn continue to resist the intense pressure to conform? Her mother, portrayed by model Suzy Parker, asks, “What’s so terrible about being beautiful? After all, isn’t everybody?” Marilyn argues that that is exactly the problem: “Is that good, being like everybody? Isn’t that the same as being nobody?”Ī family member refers to her reservations about the procedure as “radical ideas” and she is also described as being a “sick girl.” To make matters worse, her beliefs echo things her father said shortly before taking his own life. ![]() I am sure it is no coincidence that Marilyn shares a name with one of the silver screen’s most iconic beauties. Several people in this society, while attractive, look identical and everyone wears name tags so nobody confuses any of the doppelgangers. She is told, “The transformation is the most marvelous thing that could happen to a person.” Still, she has her concerns. Then, undergo a procedure to transform into her new self. She is also being pressured by her loved ones to mark the occasion with a certain rite of passage, which includes selecting a new body out of a handful of options, like she’s ordering one from a catalog. In this futuristic society, “science has developed the means to give everyone the face and body he dreams of.” A young woman by the name of Marilyn, played by Collin Wilcox of To Kill a Mockingbird, is approaching her 19th birthday. Number 12 Looks Just Like You offers a glimpse of what the year 2000 might look like. Number 12 Looks Just Like You, by Charles Beaumont and John Tomerlin Such entries include the family of a young woman encouraging her to get a life-altering procedure against her wishes, a teenage girl’s alien boyfriend not receiving the help he needs when he tries to warn her that aliens plan to poison the water supply, an aging spinster struggling to get people to believe that she has been receiving a series of creepy calls, and a man who is so desperate he takes the advice of a computer to get one very special woman to acknowledge his existence. The characters in the most recent month of The Twilight Zone certainly encountered plenty of doubt and hesitation when they asked for help or tried to express themselves. ![]()
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