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Hit-and-miss reboots

Aspirational remake of Baby-Sitters Club fares better than toothless revival of The Twilight Zone

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Ideally, you want the reboot of a beloved television show to recall the best parts of the original, ditch any embarrassing bits and update or make it better.

That is a tall order when bringing back something as iconic as The Twilight Zone anthology, which set a new bar for provocative, zeitgeist-channelling science fiction, horror and fantasy when Rod Serling launched it in 1959.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 02, 2020, with the headline Hit-and-miss reboots. Subscribe