Review: Colman Domingo stars in The Twilight Zone Downtime – Undead Walking

"Downtime" -- Pictured: Morena Baccarin as Michelle Weaver of the the CBS All Access series THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Photo Cr: Robert Falconer/CBS 2020 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Colman Domingo joins Deadpool and Gotham star Morea Baccarin in a trippy trip into The Twilight Zone. Season 2 of Jordan Peeles reboot of the classic Rod Serling series has definitely ramped up the creepy factor as Baccarin discovers that her world is not everything it seems.

Downtime achieves the classic Twilight Zone chill factor when the world stops but Michelle Weavers world keeps going. Theres an orb in the sky but no one else seems bothered by it, and eventually everyone succumbs to its pull. Except for her.

She returns home to find that her husband Carl (Domingo) is unaffected until she mentions the orb, and then he comments that its downtime and lapses into an Irish brogue. Alone and terrified, Michelle finds herself confronted with news that the life she has been living is not what she thought it was, and she has some decisions to make.

The episode is reminiscent of the Cameron Crowe mindbender Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz. Eagle-eyed fans will see that theres a little nod to The Twilight Zone episode The Brain Center at Whipples if you watch carefully.

Downtime is wholly original with lots of modern day concepts that make it relevant for todays audiencebut also relevant for future audiences, too. After all, Serlings genius was that he could spin tales in the early 1960s that remain as culturally relevant for today as they were when the episodes first aired.

Baccarin is phenomenal in Downtime. She is able to capture so much emotion in her expression, which is important as she spends much of the episode on her own. Domingos all-too-brief appearance is so much fun. Fear TWD fans wont see a trace of Victor Strand in this performance, which gives Domingo free range to flex his acting muscles. (Mr. Peele, please give Colman Domingo an entire episode. He needs an entire episode. And we know it would be brilliant.)

The entire second season of The Twilight Zone is available to view now on CBS All Access, including the episode A Human Face with fellow Fear TWD star Jenna Elfman.

Fans will be able to catch more from Colman Domingo when Fear the Walking Dead returns for season 6 this summer, and during the Fear TWD panel at SDCC at Home July 22-26.

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Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero