The Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder (1960)
Season 2, Episode 6
10/10
Beauty
26 October 2014
Maxine Stuart is the voice viewer hears as Janet Tyler, a bandaged patient in a hospital who is undergoing her eleventh and final operation in order to make her look normal, as this society doesn't tolerate any deviation from its norms, and its carefully chosen and protected ideas of beauty. Janet is desperate to look normal, but the odds are against her, though her sympathetic doctor(played by William D. Gordon) does what he can for her, even after the bandages are removed, and the truth found out... Unforgettable episode is masterfully directed by Douglas Heyes, who cleverly hides the faces of the cast to grand effect, and the final reveal and end narration by Rod Serling still packs a wallop.
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