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I haven't seen this episode in a few years and as I watched it this time I found it incredibly frightening and prescient. Fascism exists today as much as it ever has. The difference is a large group of people would agree with the Hitler loving character portrayed perfectly by Dennis Hopper. His ability to switch quickly from the man-child he is in front of his elderly friend to a cold blooded Nazi at his rallies brings forth a depth and a sad psychological assessment of his character.

The man in shadow whose face is hidden advising him on how to relate to his crowds of angry bitter people is very reminiscent of today's most extreme politicians. Far-Right populism sticks to a tried and true playbook: appeal to the crowd's fears and prejudices and offer simplistic solutions designed to sound convincing to them no matter how ridiculous or evil those solutions may be. Perhaps most importantly, by telling your followers the same lies over and over again and those oft repeated lies begin to gain an appearance of plausibility.

Written by Rod Serling himself, this episode is dark and contemporary, it could have been filmed last week with little added or subtracted.

This must be one of the goofiest and most juvenile movies of all time. There are poop jokes, gay jokes, jokes against women and almost everything presented in this film. The meteor story is typically sci-fi/fantasy as a trope on strange unearthly powers granted to whomever possesses the meteorite. This goes back thousands of years through myth. Thor's hammer, King Arthur and the sword in the stone and further back to at least the time of the Greeks.

In this instance it brings change both good and bad to three somewhat lovable hicks somewhere in the American South, which is instrumental as the perfect stereotypical setting for this kind of juvenile humor.

This film is well worth watching. It's clear the cast, writers and producers poured their hearts into this childish but feel good by the end movie. However it also concludes with the possibility of a growing danger brought on by one of the film's antagonists.

All in all I highly recommend this unforgettably weird but worthwhile entertainment extravaganza of poop jokes and gay jokes et al, done with all the exuberance of smarter than your average juvenile delinquents.

I swear I don't know what I'm watching. Well, what I'm watching is whining, whispering, somber discussions about feelings, more whining then Burnham saves the day which must be followed up by emphatic whispering and and finally a round robin of discussing heartfelt feelings and emotions. They need to generate a holographic Sigmund Freud to analyze them to death on the good ship Recovery.... I mean Discovery.