Welcome to The Anthologist, a podcast where some guy you don't know or care about watches and reviews randomly selected episodes from randomly selected Anthology TV shows that you may or may not know or care about. Shows designed to be watched in any order, watched in no particular order. This Week:

The Twilight Zone (1959) - Season One, Episode Twenty One: “Mirror Image," a simple prototype for what is now a well worn trope about evil gaslighting doppelgangers that spends a little too much time holding the audience's hand and not enough time trying to find an interesting story to lead them to.

Monsters - Season Three, Episode One: “Stressed Environment" Another stand out schlocky masterpiece from what is rapidly becoming my favorite show regularly covered on the podcast, about adorable killer rats with tiny spears and ill intent and the scientists who stupidly bred them for no discernible reason.

And stay tuned for The Expansionist, where I treat the episodes I reviewed as failed backdoor pilots and imagine the full series that might have been, in this case a modern day remake of the classic 90's sitcom The John Larroquette Show I guess, because that's a reference that people remember and care about, and a much more interesting sci-fi thriller about super-intelligent rats trying to take over the world and the one pizza-loving rodent hero willing to stand up against them.

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