Review of To Serve Man

The Twilight Zone: To Serve Man (1962)
Season 3, Episode 24
8/10
Service with a Smile
5 July 2011
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** It was out of the blue that hundreds of spaceships landed in all the major capitals and cities of the world that caused the leaders, as well as people, of nations on that planet to feel a bit nervous. To their surprise the aliens were not at all hostile but very hospitable towards them with a menu of goodies like free and unlimited power sources as well as super seeds that can be planted in places like the Sahara Desert and cause it to bloom like a Garden of Eden. The most important project that the aliens had to offer the earth's population is an invisible force field that will by rendering nuclear as well as conventional bombs and missiles useless thus end war on earth forever. All the aliens want is for the earth people to every now and then take a trip, free of charge, to their planet some 100 billion miles away as see what they got in store for them in accepting their wonderful gifts that among other things prevent hunger on the entire planet.

We in the audience knows that something is very fishy in all this because at the start of "The Twiight Zone" episode we see a sweating and almost out of his skull Michael Chambers, Llyod Bochner, explaining just what a mess he and his fellow earthlings got themselves into in accepting the aliens, 9 foot tall Kanamits, gracious offer. Chambers a decoder specialist for the US Government had gotten a hold of a book that the head Kanamit, Richard Kiel, left at the UN as an offer of his good and honest intentions for the human race with its title, after being decoded, as saying "To Serve Man".

***SPOILERS*** Feeling that he, not the Kanamits, was now in the driver seat in being serviced by them at no cost to himself and his fellow human beings Chambers found out too late who was to serve who when his fellow government decoder specialist Patty, Susan CUmmings, decoded the contents of the mysterious book. As it turned out the Kanamits were indeed very interested in preserving the human race and keeping it strong healthy and well fed for it's own selfish and greedy propose! And those reasons were kept under wraps by the Kanamits until they got not only control but the full confidence of those, the human population on earth, that they secretly targeted!
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