By making assumptions, I think the series’ purpose is to make the American society to reflect on themselves as the show teaches the morals and depicted the American society at the time. During the 50s, the Cold War was still going on. People were afraid of communism and were pointing fingers at everyone who looked suspicious. The Twilight Zone was perfect at showing the issues that was going on in the American society. I remembered there was one episode of The Twilight Zone I had watched in Junior High as a class. There were meteors crashing into Earth and strange things are happening. The whole neighborhood started to blame each other for the unusual things happening. Then everyone went crazy and violently attacking each other. There were actual aliens watching the whole neighborhood at a distance hill controlling everything that was going on. I find it amusing how everything went collapsing downhill. This began to make sense to me how the Americans reacted during the Cold War. Everyone was afraid and wanted to have something blame just like the Salem Witch trials (McCarthyism at the time). Basically the show depicted McCarthyism going on in the