The Twilight Zone: Sensuous Cindy (2002)
Season 1, Episode 16
8/10
The inspiration for Black Mirror perhaps
10 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I think the second revival of The Twilight Zone hosted by Forest Whitaker was unfairly maligned, and some episodes stand up quite well upon reflection. For example, this episode Sensuous Cindy (or more like Sensuous Cyber-Cindy) is quite prescient, with its virtual reality equipment, online relationships, infidelity, twosomes from the same side, it's all there. In some ways it's the inspiration for Black Mirror.

Greg Germann, before he became famous in Ally McBeal, plays Ben Baker. Jaime Pressly is Sensuous Cindy. Tiffany Lyndall-Knight plays Baker's fiance Samantha. The twist at the end is one that Black Mirror would be proud of.

Also, I sometimes wonder what happens to actors after they leave the acting profession. Tiffany Lyndall-Knight became an academic, getting her PhD, and lectures at Flinders University in South Australia in Australia.
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