Twilight Zone episode review — 5.20 — From Agnes — with Love

Episode 5.20 “From Agnes — with Love”
Original air date: February 14, 1964
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Director: Richard Donner

Rating: 4/10

This episode is just one of a few that has a story I just can’t be interested in. It’s basically a reverse of Her, with a computer falling in love the scientist or computer engineer or whatever, that’s working on it.

The computer known as Agnes keeps giving James Elwood (Wally Cox) dating advice, and starts to manipulate him. The entire episode feels really cheap since most of it is just in that computer room. The computer acts out of jealousy and even refuses to perform its main functions as a computer, instead only focusing on Elwood’s relationships. It basically drives Elwood crazy.

It’s not a very interesting episode. The performances are nothing special, and like I said, it feels really cheap. But the story isn’t very good.