On October 2, 1959, the TV show “The Twilight Zone” made its debut in the USA. It lasted until 1964 for a total of 5 seasons. In the following decades it had various revivals with the second version broadcast between 1985 and 1989, the third version in the 2002-2003 season and the most recent one started in 2019.
“My Perfect World” is the seventh episode of the second season of the TV show “The Terror”, which was named “The Terror: Infamy”, and follows “Taizo”. It’s broadcast in the USA on AMC Studios and in other nations on Amazon Prime Video.
Note. This article contains some spoilers about “My Perfect World”.
While Yuko Tanabe (Kiki Sukezane) possesses a doctor to fix her body, Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio) receives a package containing the letters he sent to Luz Ojeda (Cristina Rodlo) and decides he can’t stay in the internment camp. Several people at the camp fell ill, including the doctors, but Major Bowen has no intention of doing anything, so Ken Uehura (Christopher Naoki Lee) turns to extreme means to help them.
“Taizo” is the sixth episode of the second season of the TV show “The Terror”, which was named “The Terror: Infamy”, and follows “Shatter Like a Pearl”. It’s broadcast in the USA on AMC Studios and in other nations on Amazon Prime Video.
1919. Yuko Tanabe (Kiki Sukezane) arrives in the USA to marry Hideo Furuya (Eiji Inoue) in an arranged marriage but must confess to him that she’s pregnant. At that point he kicks her out, forcing her to live on the street, where she can barely survive. When she decides to take her own life, the meeting with a mysterious woman (Natsuki Kunimoto) changes everything.
“Shatter Like a Pearl” is the fifth episode of the second season of the TV show “The Terror”, which was named “The Terror: Infamy”, and follows “The Weak Are Meat”. It’s broadcast in the USA on AMC Studios and in other nations on Amazon Prime Video.
At the internment camp, the Japanese-Americans are forced to complete a questionnaire that is supposed to establish their loyalty to the USA but two of the questions generate a lot of arguments and resistance among them. New translators arrive in Guadalcanal but one of them behaves strangely. Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio) finds out what happened to his sons while he and his fellow translator Arthur Ogawa (Marcus Toji) interrogate a Japanese prisoner who claims he’s possessed by a yurei.
The novel “It” by Stephen King was published for the first time in 1986. It won the British Fantasy Award.
1957. Georgie Denbrough is taking advantage of the heavy rains to play on the streets of Derry with a paper boat. When it ends up into a gutter, Georgie fears he lost it, but in the gutter’s opening he sees the face of a clown who starts talking to him. When Georgie approaches, the entity with the appearance of a clown kills him tearing him to pieces. It’s just the first of a series of murders that strike Derry.
1985. Mike Hanlon is Derry’s librarian and realizes that a new cycle of strange murders has begun so he calls his six old friends who moved elsewhere but many years before sworn that they would return to Derry if that happened. They had completely forgotten the events of their childhood but Mike’s call starts restoring those memories with the horrors attached to them.
