Jonah Tulis’ Serling, a new 98-minute documentary about The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, is good, but it’s mostly a good shell.
Persuasively showing that Rod Serling was one of the medium’s true prophets, a prolific thinker capable of seeing the world around him and using it as a prism to look both backward and forward, Serling proves less deft in examining Rod Serling as a man. Despite interviews with Serling’s wife and daughters, as well as several collaborators, this remains a portrait of the artist as a very wise fortune cookie instead of a flesh-and-blood storyteller whose work still thrills us in a way that countless contemporaries, however acclaimed, never achieved.
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The Bottom Line A worthwhile if somewhat shallow dive into a deep man.
Venue: SXSW Film Festival (Documentary
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