Season 5 embodies a new series of events, in which the young teenager Phillips hates his life. It seems that his only pride is his son Pep, who serves the US armed forces in Vietnam during that period, and on the other hand a young man uses company money to place a bet with Max but the man loses the bet. Meanwhile, Max is returning his money again.
Some of the absolute best episodes of The Twilight Zone explore the stigmas and fears around mental illness-namely the paranoid feeling that no one around them will believe them.
Even in the less successful episodes there's often something to enjoy, perhaps a mediocre script enlivened by the performance of a veteran actor or a young up-and-comer.
Both the performances from Nelson and Malone and Earl Hamner Jr.'s script work to make them two of the most believable and well fleshed out characters in the series' history.
