The Shelter Episode Analysis

In sight of the cold war, in 1961 the highest point of the cold war is when the episode known as “The Shelter” in the series called The Twilight Zone was created. The episode covered the possibilities of many particular situations that may have occurred in a desperate time like this if a missile was launched at the United States. At the beginning of the episode, Rod Serling himself tells us “what you are about to watch is a nightmare.” We get a very ominous sense of what is coming due to the eerie music that had been playing in the background, and we soon find out that this episode is just that. A nightmare, in the sense of the event that is occurring but also the constant battle of a nightmare between thoughts that may drive one crazy as well as those thoughts mixed with the people you knew as “friends.”
Watching this episode makes me think twice when I think about the tough times I go through. Back in those days, it was a constant battle with those living then with the unexpected events that were known to inevitably occur at one point in time or another. You feel a huge sense of tension all throughout the episode that leaves a major impact on you

There were only few people that did and those people were readily prepared for just about anything. In this day and age, you could never be too careful with any possible occurrence, let alone a missile threat during the Cold War. Rod Serling himself then comes on to say that “It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen. It is the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that it never shall happen. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen. This is The Twilight Zone.” As if this episode weren’t already eerie enough. Even in the form of a film, you start to think of what is to come. That is just what they were thinking back in this time period, they never knew what to expect or what was to really