Twilight Zone's "The Gift" Twist Ending Explained

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Here's the ending of The Twilight Zone episode «The Gift» explained. The Twilight Zone is a classic sci-fi/fantasy anthology series created by Rod Serling. The show debuted on CBS in 1959, with Serling using the series to take about social and political issues in a coded manner. In addition to Serling penning many episodes himself, writers such asI Am Legend's Richard Matheson worked on the show. Many elements of The Twilight Zone have become iconic, including Serling's narration, its theme music and its use of shock twist endings.

The intense workload and clashes with CBS executives over Twilight Zone saw it canceled a couple of times before it finally ended in 1964. The show was brought back several times following this, including a movie anthology — fittingly called Twilight Zone: The Movie — which was then followed by revival TV series. A TV movie called The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics aired in 1994, which used previously unfilmed material from the show's late creator. Two more reboots came in form of 2002'sTwilight Zone, hosted by Forest Whitaker, and the Jordan Peele-fronted revival that aired for two seasons on CBS All Access.

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Despite all of these attempts to recapture what made the original run so special, these revivals all faltered in their own way. Twilight Zone «The Gift» isn't considered one of the show's better outings, as it wears its symbolism and themes heavily on its sleeves. «The Gift» is a reworking of creator Rod Serling's «I Shot An Arrow In The Air,» which was considered as a potential pilot for The Twilight Zone. Serling later reworked this concept, moving it from America to a small town in Mexico and