The Twilight Zone Season 2, Episode 4 recap: The price of applause

The Twilight Zone Season 2, Episode 4 recap: “Ovation”

What would happen if you found a magical coin gifting you with fame and endless applause? Jurnee Smollet portrays a character who must contend with such a fate. In The Twilight Zone Season 2, Episode 4, Smollet plays a struggling singer named Jasmine.

Most people ignore Jasmine until she happens to meet a world-famous singer named Fiji (Sky Ferriera). Fiji gifts Jasmine with a strange coin and then kills herself by stepping in front of a bus.

At her memorial service, Jasmine performs a song and gets noticed by J.J. Malloy (Thomas Lennon), the host of the famous singing competition Ovation. Malloy invites Jasmine to audition for the show. She barely begins to sing, and already the crowd is on their feet applauding her.

As you might expect, things begin to take a sinister turn when it appears people cannot stop applauding for Jasmine. An Uber driver almost crashes the car when her song plays on the radio, surgeons stop mid-surgery, even a guy under anesthesia starts clapping!

So Jasmine relinquishes the coin to her sister, Zara, in the hopes she can go back to a normal life, even if that means struggling.

“Ovation” — Pictured (l-r): Paul F. Tompkins as Jimmy OХMalley and Jurnee Smollett as Jasmine of the CBS All Access series THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Photo Cr: Robert Falconer/CBS 2020 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved. /

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Well, returning to a life without notoriety is not easy for Jasmine.

She takes to a cabin in the woods to try and decompress but obsesses over the life she left behind. Then one day, she finds a flyer for a new hot artist, making her realize that someone else has found the coin and become an overnight success.

Driven by jealousy and rage, Jasmine travels to the place where the new artist — MYNX will be visiting fans.

She brings a knife with her and attacks the singer in front of everyone. Only to discover that MYNX is actually her sister, Zara.

Jasmine, realizing what she’s done, starts screaming for a doctor. She notices the coin in her sister’s hand as she passes away. So, did Zara do all of this to pocket the coin and steal her sister’s glory? Or was she trying to protect Jasmine in her own twisted way?

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The Twilight Zone Season 2 is currently available to stream in full on CBS All Access.

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