Cavender Is Coming

This is my favourite episode. Miss Grep is adorable as the clumsy, unemployed woman who is sent an angel to improve her lot.

This is quite different from the "usual" (for want of a better word) TZ, I love The Twilight Zone but as different as this is I love it. The main character is hilarious and likeable. This episode is more funny than out-there but is definitely my favourite.

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Ok, we know TZ is great, but many people seem to be very torn between the quality of the episodes. What I would suggest is that the worst TZ episodes are better than most film and tv ever produced. That being said, Cavander is Coming should be appreciated for what it is, not what it is not. So, what is it? Well, I found it funny, but with a serious touch of dark melodrama. And there is the added element of the Capra allusions and Carol Burnett's meta role that seems reflective of her own life. I would place this episode alongside episodes like, Night of the Meek, The Changing of the Guard, Once Upon a Time, The Bard, or The Man in the Bottle. So, it is humorous but with an underlying darkness. In terms of quality, lets try and sum up the acting, writing, cinematography, production design, and editing: not the best, but on par with classic episodes such as To Serve Man, third from the Sun, Death Ship.

Frankly, i don't know how anyone can find this episode, as a piece of filmic art, to be of a lesser quality than many other Zones. It is not poorly acted or written. Sure, its silly/humorous, but that is a qualitative judgement, if you do not like the content, that does not mean the episode is poorly made.

Also, people seem to feel upset by the fact that this film is an obvious hommage to Its a Wonderful Life, thus being less original than other TZ episodes. To this I say, none of them were that original. If you watch the film Dead of Night (1945), it is pretty obvious that at least 4 TZ episodes were gleaned from it. And many episodes were based on short stories, or written by great authors using material/ideas that they had in play from other texts. If this is too much of a rant, go back and watch silent film until you develop an appriciation of the art and techniques of film production, then watch Infinity War, and you decide what is better, a tightly told story done on the cheap with very little discontinuity, or something that costs mort than the GDP of many countries and is rife with continuity errors and an equal, if not greater dose of nonsense, than you have in Cavander is Coming.

Honestly, i do not have an answer but to suggest that those who truly love film, and understand how the medium affects society will always understand the TZ, and see the beauty of each and every episode.

In New York, the clumsy Agnes Grep is a simple and nice woman that loves her neighbors, but is not capable to hold an employment. The unskillful guardian angel Harmon Cavender has not earned his wings yet, and his master gives him a last chance provided he helps Agnes. But the solution Cavender to the case makes Agnes Crep unhappy, until he learns that money is not the synonym to happiness.

"Cavender Is Coming" is a silly episode of "The Twilight Zone". The jokes do not work and the episode is unfunny. The conclusion is also brainless. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Um Anjo Atrapalhado" ("An Unskillful Angel")

Remember that old comedy show where the hapless angel would help a different oddball in distress every week? Thank God you don't. I'm only glad this intended pilot show never left the runway. I don't know anything about eschatology but the idea of a heaven where Howard Smith, the 'push push push' guy from 'A Stop At Willoughby' is a senior angel with ropey wings is enough to make me prefer any other fate the Zone depicted.

Happily almost no one remembers this terrible idea where by Rod Serling no less would have moved into Mr Ed type territory of lame television. There is no genuine attempt at comedy even though Carol Burnett as Cavender's first help recipient almost manages to make it feel like comedy.