The Twilight Zone (TV Series) Dream Lover (2002) User Reviews

The Tables Get Turned

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 6 July 2017]

So much of the Twilight Zone over the years is a misinterpretation of reality. We may criticize the characters, but we have to realize that they don't have the luxury of dramatic irony. In this one a man who is doing a graphic novel finds himself with serious writer's block. We see everything from his studly, selfish side. He has supposedly created a dream girl (and she is quite a sexy and beautiful character). She is there to help him unwind and get his inspiration back. I won't throw any spoilers in here, but suffice it to say that this is the Twillight Zone and things ain't always what they seem to be. Don't quit half way through.

Shannon Elizabeth lights up the screen in wooden performance

[jakethedog85 · 6/10 · 22 December 2006]

Shannon Elizabeth adds a level of sex appeal to the updated Twilight Zone. Although her performance is by the numbers, it is the saving grace of the episode to have her their. Solid writing in this show contributes to an above average episode. Although the word stale comes to mind for all of the sets and atmospherics, which detracts greatly. At least the music itself helps keep this show above water, Mark Snow is a brilliant composer, and the theme by Johnathon Davis while perhaps one that will be easily dated is at least evocative. Adrian Pasdar is a pawn in this story, he really brings nothing to the table as an actor, other than being annoying, it doesn't help that he is given lines exclusively to make him whine. Fortunately there is just enough going on to hold your interest.

I want a dream lover so I don't have to dream no more

[kapelusznik18 · 5/10 · 5 October 2015]

***SPOILERS**** Remake of the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "A World of His Own" has frustrated writer Andrew Lomax, Adrian Pasdar, who's suffering from severe writers block as he tries to follow up his best selling novel "The Sleeping City" without any idea in what to write about it. It's then that out of the blue this really groovy chick Sondra, Shannon Elizabeth, pops up into his life in order for him to get, besides the usual womanly comforts, his act together.

At first Adrian starts to get to work on his great American novel until he starts to notice Sondra outside making chit-chat with the handsome cable guy Sam,John Reardon, and feels that she's cheating on him behind his back.It gets so bad that Adrian starts to lose his interest in writing his follow up to "The Sleeping City" and spends all his time stalking Sondra, whom he actually conjured up in his confused mind, and even tries to pick a fight with her new boyfriend "Handsome Sam" when , with his fist having no effect on Sam, he finally realizes the truth of his condition as well as situation!

****SPOILERS*** The truth wasn't a very good one for Adrian in finding out that he's just a figment of his "dream Lover" Sondra's imagination. It was in fact her not him that was in charge of things and by seeing what a flop he was Sondra had him erased out of her life. And now together with "Handsome Sam" Sondra went back into the real world with a new slew of ideas for her unfinished great American novel.

Fair to middling.

[planktonrules · 4/10 · 12 February 2022]

Andrew is a graphic novelist who is having a heck of a time finishing his latest book. Out of no where, a dream-like lover appears...and she's his new muse. It seems that he can see her and interact with her (and make LOTS of nookie with her) but others don't know she exists...and he knows this to be the case. However, in an odd twist, after a while his muse goes from adoring him to getting very tired of him...and she runs away! I can understand, as he does seem like a bit of a jerk. So what's next?

So is this any good? Well, I guessed the twist well before it was revealed. And, I also should point out that in the original "Twilight Zone" series, there was a much, much, much better episode involving an author who could create real people using his imagination. "A World of His Own" is so much better...with a better twist, a great sense of humor and better acting (Amber Tamblyn is pretty flat as this muse).

"She may not be real, but she's all mine."

[classicsoncall · 8/10 · 20 February 2023]

This was a cleverly written episode and with its misdirection, I didn't see the twist ending coming. Andrew's (Adrian Pasdar) hand swipe through Sondra's (Shannon Elizabeth) face and the wild punch that went right through Sam (John Reardon) were pretty good clues that it was Andrew who wasn't real and not the other way around. The set up with Andrew's writer's block was a good one, and kept the focus on him as the struggling graphic novelist looking for inspiration. As a comic book fan, I thought it was pretty cool that the writers threw in references to Alan Moore and Stan Lee, both courtesy of Sondra. Come to think of it, that was another clue; how would she have known about those talented writers if she wasn't one herself? Altogether an entertaining episode, and thanks to a couple other reviewers who brought up one of Rod Serling's original Twilight Zone stories called 'A World of His Own". I had forgotten all about it.