“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling [the] transmission…”. Such was the Orwellian-themed “cold open” of an early 1960s psychological thriller series titled “The Outer Limits,” perhaps now remembered only by those old enough to be receiving incessant solicitations from AARP or medical alert packages.
Who would have thought we’d actually be living in such times while we were being subjected to the psychological thrillers depicted by this cinematic version of a dystopian world over a half-century ago?