You probably only glance at TV listings, making note of the time your favorite show starts, but one Scottish newspaper has ensured its TV guide for the coming week is unmissable. The Sunday Herald in Glasgow has likened this Friday’s Presidential Inauguration to a dystopian sci-fi TV series. “After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history,” the listing begins, going on to call Donald Trump’s presidency a “huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years.”
The show will depict “a nightmarish version of 2017” and the Herald concludes in pitch-perfect TV critic speak that “it’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into if we’re not careful.” Living as we are in the era of fake news and biting satire, the line between reality and fiction gets ever blurrier; Rod Serling would no doubt have relished it.
