O-oh, perhaps it's only my imagination, but I'm noticing an alarming trend towards the end of the first season of "The Twilight Zone". The stories are becoming more sentimental and even moralistic rather than sardonic and unsettling! I certainly hope this will change soon, as I personally like my Sci-Fi and Cult series dark, scary and depressing, with unhappy endings and preferably lots of casualties. That being said, however, I can't deny that I did enjoy "Mr. Bevis" until a certain level, even though the sappy messages like "be true to yourself" and "live life to the fullest" are shoved down our throats a bit over-enthusiastically. Mr. Bevis is a rather eccentric thirty-something single man with simple philosophies in life. Most people would call him a loser, because he dresses funnily, wastes time playing football with the kids in the street, can't ever pay the rent for his apartment in time, drives a ridiculous and ramshackle old car and never succeeds to keep the same job for longer than six weeks. After getting sacked for the umpteenth time, Mr. Bevis is approached by a strange individual who calls himself J. Hardy Hempstead and claims to the guardian angel for the Bevis bloodline since many centuries already. In the simple blink of an eye, Hempstead arranges that Mr. Bevis suddenly wears fancy suits and drives a macho sports car! Suddenly his rent is paid for several months in advance, and rather than getting fired from his job, he gets promoted! But in spite the theoretical progresses in his life, Bevis doesn't feel comfortable at all
His successful new life doesn't allow for him to act silly, play with the kids or decorate his desk with hideous little gadgets
and those things made him the happiest person in the world. Much like its protagonist, this episode of "The Twilight Zone" is harmless and fairly insignificant, but it definitely brings a smile on your face and provides from distraction from life's harsh realities.