I usually start eye-rolling and lowering my expectations when a Twilight Zone episode commences with goofy music... The comical and excessively light-hearted ones are generally the least pleasing, but "From Agnes with Love" still more or less holds its head above water (unintentionally?) thanks to the topic of machines surpassing the intellect of their creators, manipulating the lives of human beings, and developing emotions. Some of the most haunting Sci-Fi flicks of the seventies have similar themes, like "Colossus: The Forbin Project" and "Demon Seed". Again, though, I sincerely doubt it was ever this little tale's intention to get disturbing, what with its plot of an über-nerd asking romantic advice about how to get noticed by his secretary to what is supposedly the world's most advanced super-computer. The machine - Agnes - deliberately gives the wrong tips because she wants the nerd for herself.
Cute but unmemorable TZ-installment, mainly fun and interesting to see what, back in the early sixties, the perception of a super-intelligent computer looked like: a full room stuffed with panels, buttons, flickering lights, and constantly printing receipts apparently!
Cute but unmemorable TZ-installment, mainly fun and interesting to see what, back in the early sixties, the perception of a super-intelligent computer looked like: a full room stuffed with panels, buttons, flickering lights, and constantly printing receipts apparently!