episode #096 - The Trade-ins

**BoG** Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:46 pm

Air Date: 04/13/62 Idea

Writer: Rod Serling Idea

Director: Elliot Silverstein
episode #096 - The Trade-ins Enhanced-13824-1419874735-1

BoG's Score: 5 out of 10

In some near-future, an old couple has the opportunity to obtain young bodies for themselves due to a medical breakthrough. I found this one to be dull and uninspired, but Buzzfeed got caught up in the sentimentality, ranking it #47 out of 156:

Sometimes The Twilight Zone just nails sentimentality — a perfect ratio of sincerity and ingenuity — and the result, as in this episode, is beautiful. From the opening — watching the elderly couple being strong-armed into the body-swapping procedure, asking if there’s really no pain, psyching each other up, only to find out they can only afford one procedure — to the moment they decide they’d rather just grow old together, it’s impossible not to be emotionally invested.