""Submitted for your approval, the village of Covington, PA

Rating: Null/10 (2 August 2004)

Covington is one of those quiet, bucolic villages that dotted the American landscape in the late 1890s. The people work the land, celebrate birthes, weddings, and deaths. Tend their flocks, chop wood, and bake bread.
The one thing they don't do...is go beyond these woods (Rod indicates behind to a wooded set). For beyond these woods are creatures that all the villagers of Covington dread. Creatures of such nightmare, they can only be found....in the "Bad Movie Zone"!""

That plus about 78 minutes of editing...and you've got a fair-to-mediocre TZ episode. The only thing missing is Rod wrapping it up at the end with one of his patented epilogues.
Unfortunately, you have to sit through Joaquin Phoenix, waiting for his obligation to M. Night to be paid off...Bryce Howard, looking for a break-out role, so she can appear in one of her dad's movies WITHOUT being embaressed....Sigourney Weaver, hoping this isn't a career killer....and William Hurt, wondering what happened to HIS career.
Save it for broadcast TV, if you're bored and there's not a good "Trading Spaces" or "The West Wing" re-run on.....otherwise, you'll see what is M. Night's first and (hopefully) last big stink-burger!