The Emigre: me on the wisdom of classic TV

A new online magazine from some talented friends, The Emigre, has now launched. Early articles include an unexpectedly intimate encounter on the streets of Buenos Aires. There’s also one by me on the classic Twilight Zone episode It’s A Good Life, in which the inhabitants can’t leave their small town – even though they desperately want to.

They tell us we’re living in a golden age of TV, but how many of today’s shows get you rooting for a child’s head to be smashed in with a poker? Back in 1961 “family entertainment” really meant something.

Read the whole thing, and keep smiling, unless you want to go to the cornfield.