#2.14 Welcome to Earth-2

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Yeah. That’s what happens when you do the vows, exchange the rings…

—Detective Iris West-Allen, The Flash, “Welcome to Earth-2”

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24-Hours in The Twilight Zone

When I learned that a certain cable network isn’t doing their annual Twilight Zone marathon this year...

I decided to plan out a 24-hour block of Twilight Zone episodes myself. I limited myself to episodes that reflected on American life or American history to fit the holiday. (In other words, don’t come at me if your favorite episodes aren’t on this list. All of mine aren’t either!)

All episodes included are available streaming through Netflix and Amazon Prime. The full guide with episode numbers is below the jump, but here’s a Primetime preview:

Happy Viewing!

6:00am - The Shelter (3.3)

Things get ugly when a birthday party in a peaceful suburb is interrupted by a civil defense alert.

6:30am - The Old Man in the Cave (5.7)

In 1974, the survivors of nuclear apocalypse try to stay alive with the aid of a mysterious man in a cave at the outskirts of town. (Starring James Coburn & John Anderson)

7:00am - Two (3.1)

Two lone soldiers from opposing armies find one another in the shambles of main street. (Starring Charles Bronson & Elizabeth Montgomery)

7:30am - The Silence (2.25)

An cranky rich old man bets a boisterous rich young man to stay silent for an entire year. (Starring Franchot Tone)

8:00am - A Thing About Machines (2.4)

Man versus all machines. (Starring Richard Haydn)

8:30am - Static (2.20)

A nostalgic old man tunes in for a second chance. (Starring Dean Jagger)

9:00am - Young Man’s Fancy (3.34)

A newlywed isn’t ready to leave behind his childhood home to his new wife’s chagrin.

9:30am - Nightmare as a Child (1.29)

A teacher is haunted by a peculiar and demanding child.

10:00am - Walking Distance (1.5)

A stressed out ad man tries to go home again. (Starring Gig Young)

10:30am - The Big Tall Wish (1.27)

A small boy makes a big wish for his friend, a washed-up boxer, to win a fight. (Starring Ivan Dixon)

11:00am - The Mighty Casey (1.35)

The Hoboken Zephyrs bring in a ringer. (Starring Jack Warden)

11:30am - I Sing the Body Electric (3.35)

A grieving family turns to Facsimile Ltd. to fill the void in their lives. (Starring Josephine Hutchinson)

12:00pm - Mirror Image (1.21)

A woman has a ticket to start a new life in a new town, if she can ever leave the bus station. (Starring Vera Miles)

12:30pm - The After Hours (1.34)

Sometimes you just want to buy a simple, undamaged gold thimble for your mother’s birthday and then the fabric of reality begins to fray. (Starring Anne Francis)

1:00pm - The Passersby (3.4)

Around the end of the Civil War, the wife of a Confederate soldier awaits his return. 

1:30pm - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (5.22)

An adaptation of the Ambrose Bierce story. A man is executed for sabotage.

2:00pm - Back There (2.13)

A man gets the chance to test out his theories on time travel. (Starring Russell Johnson)

2:30pm - Long Live Walter Jameson (1.24)

A close colleague discovers the true reason Walter Jameson is such a good history teacher. (Starring Kevin McCarthy)

3:00pm - Still Valley (3.11)

A Confederate soldier thinks black magic might turn the tides of the Civil War. (Starring Gary Merrill & Vaughn Taylor)

3:30pm - The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms (5.10)

National Guardsmen running exercises discover the Battle of Little Bighorn is still being waged.

4:00pm - The Grave (3.7)

A hired gun visits the grave of his latest victim. (Starring Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, & James Best)

4:30pm - The Hunt (3.19)

A day of hunting doesn’t go as planned for a man and his dog.

5:00pm - Black Leather Jackets (5.18)

When a bunch of motorcycle riding delinquents move in, the aftermath isn’t quite what the townspeople expect. (Starring Shelley Fabares)

5:30pm - Ring-A-Ding Girl (5.13)

A warm welcome is planned for the Ring-A-Ding girl when she returns to her hometown.

6:00pm - The Mind and the Matter (2.27)

A New Yorker fed up with people exercises his psychic abilities. (Starring Shelley Berman)

6:30pm - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby (3.30)

The town yarn spinner attracts the attention of extraterrestrial visitors. (Starring Andy Devine)

7:00pm - The Brain Center at Whipple’s (5.33)

A factory owner is on a mission to fully automate his factory. (Starring Richard Deacon)

7:30pm - The Changing of the Guard (3.37)

In the face of retirement, an elderly professor contemplates his past and future. (Starring Donald Pleasance)

Primetime!

Enjoy a six-hour block of episodes that cross the United States while you avoid your neighbors who shouldn’t be trusted with fireworks.

8:00pm - A Stop at Willoughby (1.30)

A New York ad man is overwhelmed by the stresses of modern city life and dreams of a simpler life, in a simpler place, with simpler people. (Starring James Daly)

8:30pm - The Monsters are Due on Maple Street (1.22)

A friendly suburb descends into paranoia and chaos with little motivation. (Starring Claude Akins & Jack Weston)

9:00pm - The Hitch-Hiker (1.16)

A school teacher hits a snag on a cross-country trip. (Starring Inger Stevens)

9:30pm - It’s a Good Life (3.8)

A small town (once located in middle America) is plagued by a two-eyed, two-legged, 3-foot-tall monster. (Starring Bill Mumy, Cloris Leachman, & John Larch)

10:00pm - The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank (3.23)

When Jeff Myrtlebank wakes up at his own funeral, he causes quite a stir. (Starring James Best & Sherry Jackson)

10:30pm - The Masks (5.25)

On the night of Mardi Gras, an old man holds a strange party for his greedy, self-centered relatives. (Starring Robert Keith)

11:00pm - A Hundred Yards Over The Rim (2.23)

A father travels an impossible distance in the New Mexico desert to find help for his son. (Starring Cliff Robertson)

11:30pm - Dust (2.12)

On the day of a young man’s execution, a con man tries to charge for salvation. (Starring John Larch, Thomas Gomez, & Vladimir Sokoloff)

12:00am - The Prime Mover (2.21)

A telekinetic short-order cook gets taken for a ride by his best friend. (Starring Buddy Ebsen)

12:30am - The Whole Truth (2.14)

A cursed (or enchanted) car passes through the lot of an unscrupulous used car salesman. (Starring Jack Carson)

1:00am - The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (1.4)

A faded film star isn’t ready to let go of her past. (Starring Ida Lupino & Martin Balsam)

1:30am - The Bewitchin’ Pool (5.36)

Two children, distressed by their parents’ troubled marriage, escape to a magic swimming hole at the bottom of their pool. (Starring Mary Badham)

2:00am - The Fugitive (3.25)

The unlikely friendship of an old man and a disabled child is even more unlikely than it seems.

2:30am - The Midnight Sun (3.10)

A painter and her landlady try to stick in out in New York City as the earth slowly closes in on the sun. (Starring Lois Nettleton)

3:00am - People Are Alike All Over (1.25)

A nervous astronaut finds life on Mars (Starring Roddy McDowall)

3:30am - Third from the Sun (1.14)

In the face of certain destruction, two men and their families launch a daring interplanetary escape. (Starring Fritz Weaver)

4:00am - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (2.28)

A diner crowded in with bus passengers finds there may be a Martian in their midst.

4:30am - Mr. Garrity and the Graves (5.32)

Bringing people back from the dead ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. (Starring John Dehner)

5:00am - I am the Night - Color Me Black (5.26)

The sun doesn’t rise over a town where a man is about to be executed for killing a bigot. (Starring Michael Constantine) 

5:30am - In Praise of Pip (5.1)

A lone shark gets to thinking about his life after he learns his son was wounded while serving in the army abroad. (Starring Jack Klugman & Bill Mumy)

Added note: If you’re in the US and have a TV antenna, the network Decades is also running a marathon!

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Favorite episodes (season 2)

Season 1 |  Season 2 (4 favorites and 2 honorable mentions).

2.13 "Welcome to Earth 2"

Loved the Earth 2 aesthetic, Barry and Cisco being silly, Harry looking at them like: I can't take you guys anywhere. 🙃

There was this really funny moment in Harry's office when Cisco was trying to vibe and being dramatic about it.

“Give me some space.” "Alright, Zoom, you can run, but you can't hide..."

* crickets * "Ramon!" Lol.

Earth 2 Barry was adorable with his bow tie and glasses. His best line? "Oh, it's a seminal episode, you should check it out". 🤣

I love Killer Frost’s look and Deathstorm was particularly dashing in his Earth 2 suit. They looked like quite the power couple and had great chemistry.

I was giggling during the entire conversation between Cisco and Reverb. "That weird Samourai situation you got going on on top of your head there." "So? Vibe. You wanna run Central City?" "Flash, save us!" Lol.

I almost fell off my chair when Captain Singh 2.0 appeared with a flashy hat and goatee talking about: "Look I don't know nothin, so I ain't saying, nothin." 

I lived for all the Westallen moments between Impostor Barry and E2 Iris.  Barry took one look at Iris 2.0 and got completely sidetracked.

It was nice that Barry could talk to Earth 2 Nora. I was sad about the demise of Earth 2 Joe. E1 Joe better not ever die though, I mean it!

Simply one of the best episodes of the entire series.

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2.14 "Escape From Earth 2"

I love Zoom. Eobard!Wells might be my favorite character but I like him best when he plays the shady, fake nice mentor in the wheelchair. He's a villain, sure, but the mastermind, strategic kind of villain. I see Zoom as a 100% pure, traditionally evil, rampaging villain, which would make him my number 1 favorite baddie.

He's just terrifying. The cowl, the black eyes, the voice, the drive-bys where he obliterates everything in his path Tasmanian devil-style, and terrorises the people leaving his victims bruised, battered, bewildered or six feet under. As for Teddy, he slayed the part of the emotionally damaged psychopath and looked divine doing it.

So the episode starts with Tony Todd doing the "Bring Me Wells" monologue, while Zoom perches over the city. He's hunting Wells and Co. and he's inside Star Labs.

I'm Earth 2 Barry, hyperventilating during the scene where Zoom's slides through the corridor, phases into the time vault claws first, stands around for a bit, then speeds off because he's been tricked by a fake wall.

I love Killer Frost and she had a big part in the episode too. Great confrontation between her and the team in the woods, and in the end, she did the right thing by turning on Zoom: "He killed Ronnie."

Poor Barry. While nothing beats the devastation Zoom visited upon him in "Enter Zoom", the beating he took inside the cage in Zoom’s lair, was also hard to watch. "All I need from you, is your speed, Flash, and you only need to be barely alive, for me to take it." Yikes. Zoom always serves up a one-two punch of physical pain and mental anguish.

E2 Barry remains cute. "Dr. Wells, this is, very disappointing." 🤗 My favorite moment with him was at the end, after he'd survived the scariest day of his life and was trying to pull himself together as best he could like,  "I'm fine, I'm just a mess." He’s just too cute. 

Loved the ending with the escape through the breaches, right before Jay gets got by Zoom (or does he?). This episode is so good, not even Geomancer's cringe-worthy acting could bring it down.

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2.17 "Flash Back"

Originally posted by westallengifs

Cisco's walking around having daymares because of Jay's helmet, Barry runs back in time, manhandles himself again (he tasered his doppleganger in “Welcome to Earth 2″), Hartley becomes tolerable and of course... King Wells returns!

"That was quite an observation you had about Hartley in there, Mr. Allen." "This is quite the speed equation you've concocted here, isn't it, Mr. Allen." Oh boy... Harry was right. Barry couldn't fool the chess master even a minute.

 Originally posted by coldtomyflash

Loved the face off between Barry and Shady Wells in the time vault. Some great lines from Eoabard:

"I thought, oh no... a time wraith had found me but then I though no, no, no, you know what you're doing. No the time wraith is after someone who travelled through time, and doesn't know what they're doing." "I dont need you. Do I? Not this you certainly...oops." "You ran all the way back here, just to die."

Barry made me proud, when he got Wells to fall in line by threatening to ruin his plans to go back home. Check mate!  💪

One other thing I loved about this episode was how rattled Eobard was by the presence of the speed wraith. He hardly ever loses his cool, unless his plan to go back home is in jeopardy (like when the cold gun Cisco built to stop Barry fell into the wrong hands). "If that thing comes after me, you're all dead!" "You don't know how to stop a time wraith?" "None of us do, that's why we always try to avoid them in our travels!"  😆

There's a good dose of humor in the episode also during the scene where Past Barry rushes into Star Lab asking "where's the other Flash". Cait's squinting trying to figure out which Barry's the genuine article, Cisco freaking out and tripping himself out with theories about doppelgangers and future suits and Wells is dying inside, as his precious timeline is getting disrupted: "Stop talking. You stop talking too."

Another funny scene takes place between Joe and Eddie, who keeps forgetting that Joe is Iris' dad, and continues to share intimate details about their life together. Joe's not having it and Jesse's delivery of "New, yes. Exciting, nooo." was hilarious.

The Westallen is also strong with this episode because in the midst of utter time wraith panic, Barry still makes time for Iris by asking Eddie to record a message for her. Barry’s seriously awesome.

Hartley Rathaway even redeems himself by vaporizing the time wraith in the end. Doesn't he look like such a nice guy here?

This episode is damn near perfection.

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2.21 "The Runaway Dinosaur"

Barry's "trippy" converstation with the Speed Force that takes the form of the four most important people in his life: Joe, Iris, Henry and Nora. I love that he meets SF!Iris in the same place they first kissed. That meeting with SF!Henry in the cemetery was foreshadowing to Henry's death and funeral. My favorite moment is when Barry meets his mom. Such an emotional scene. I just love Nora Allen. The actress is excellent and she and Grant killed it.

Barry also had a moving scene with his father when Henry announced he was moving back to Central City. Let me grab some tissues. Poor Henry Allen... 😢

Mr. and Mrs. Allen, I mean, Barry and Iris walking hand in hand to visit Nora's grave was one of my favorite scenes of season 2. Barry's such a romantic and he always knows the right thing to say. "You're everything to me and you always have been and the sound of voice will always bring me home." Be still my heart.

Originally posted by henycavil

Last but not least. “Let's hear it for the boy! Let's hear it for my man!”  🎼 Teddy Sears (Zoom) sauntering around the CCPD lab in his black suit and blessing us with back shots as he exits the room after leaving Cait with an ultimatum: your friends, or me. 😷

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Honorable mentions

2.18 "Versus Zoom"

Love the Westallen moments like Cait noticing the way Iris's been looking at Barry and Barry putting on a brave face when Iris tells him she has a date with Scott Evans. One of the best scenes of the entire show that I always rewind five times when it comes on, is the cute foster dad/foster son moment between Joe and Barry where they're talking about no longer having pizza from Keystone City after Wally moves in. Aww...

Originally posted by ambersriley

All this is nice and all, but the star of this episode is my man Zoom. We get a glimpse into his rough childhood and the similarities between himself and Barry. We even hear his mother say "Run Hunter. Run." (Run, Barry. Run) before she dies.

Barry uses the boot on Zoom while he's distracted by pictures of his parents but Zoom manages to get away after delivering a great monologue about family being a weakness and putting on his monster voice to drop the iconic: "You can't, lock up, the darkness." Ooh baby.  

This is the episode where Zoom trades in Wally's life for Barry's speed so he's in Star Labs, mask off, explaining his villainous motivations and Teddy is amazing. Always on pitch. Perfect pyscho; in the speech pattern, the tone, the facial expressions.

He gets animated explaining that he gave people hope, "so I can rip it away from them" then gets triggered  by Cait calling him a "monster", starts having flashbacks, snaps out of it and goes back to smirking. My deranged bae...  😘

Originally posted by kendrasaunders

Love you Bear, but every story needs a good villain. All hail the speed demon!

Originally posted by : theflashsgifs, justbarryallen, justbarryallen

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2.06 "Enter Zoom"

Linda as Dr. Light and Barry are putting on one hell of a show with terrible dialogue for Zoom. "We're gonna skip the part where you say you're gonna kill me and go right to the part where I don't let you." "I'm loyal to Zoom, so get ready, to fry."

It was great to see the friendship between Linda and Iris in “Enter Zoom”, especially given the way their relationship started.

This episode is among my favorites, strictly because of the Zoom part, which happens 10 minutes before the end when Zoom kidnaps Linda Park. "You like to fish with bait. I do too." The action is amazing. Zoom grabs the bolt of lightening and flings it back at Barry. They fight in free fall, Zoom breaks Barry's back after they land and Tony gives us another iconic line, "Never forget. I, am the fastest man alive."

Zoom really messes our Barry up. Stabbed in the chest, dragged like a broken rag doll.

Drops by CCPN : "Look at your hero. This man is no god. He is nothing."  😱 

Goes to the CCPD: "The days of The Flash protecting this city, are over."  😨 

He windmills with one arm and catches awl the bullets. 😷

After that I was in shock, and it started to feel like the scene was going on forever.

I wasn't prepared to see Barry receive an ass whooping of this magnitude.  

Star Labs. "Harrison Wells. You thought you could defeat me, with this."

Then Zoom jammed his claw into Barry's side, and I was ready to pass out.

It's the only episode from 2A on my favorite list because I didn't enjoy the first half of the season (Patty and the Legends) as much as I did the second half, but 10 minutes of Zoom made all the difference for this one. 👏 👏 👏

I love this show!  🙌🏾

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—The Flash, “Welcome to Earth-2”

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Don’t make me come and get you.

—Joe to Barry, The Flash, “Welcome to Earth-2”