10 Love Lessons From Christmas in ‘The Twilight Zone’
What Rod Serling’s classic show can still teach us
To say that I’m a fan of The Twilight Zone* would be a gross understatement of exactly how much I have loved this show for decades now. Although it first began airing over sixty years ago, there are many timeless lessons about the human condition that still hold true to this day — not the least of which are the lessons that we can learn about love. Some of those lessons can be found in two of the Christmas-themed episodes penned by Rod Serling and the following are ten of them.
The Episode: “Night of the Meek”
The Plot: Henry Corwin is a down-and-out department store Santa Claus who gets fired from his job for showing up late and drunk. After wandering around the snowy streets, he finds a bag of garbage that holds the magic to make him a real-life Santa.
The Lessons:
Love makes you want to take someone’s pain away. After a trip to his local watering hole before going to work, Corwin encounters two neighborhood children who ask him for various gifts — from a carriage to a doll to a set of soldiers to a…
