YMMV / The Twilight Zone 2019 S 2 E 9 Try Try

• Esoteric Happy Ending:
  • Claudia managed to fight and scare Marc away for now, but what's going to stop him from trying again with another version of her in a future loop? Given he'll be looping for eternity, he could eventually learn how to counter her attacks and spend the rest of his days torturing her.
  • Given Marc's obsessive personality, it's very likely that he'll end up finding himself another unwitting victim in a future loop.
• Nightmare Fuel: A man trapped in a time loop becomes an obsessive stalker who has attempted to pursue you over a thousand times. He'll eventually break down and try to do whatever he wants, and even if you fight him off in one of his attempts, he can still try again with another version of you in the next loop who is unaware.
• Spiritual Antithesis: To the film Palm Springs, which came out less than a month later in the US. Both of them deal with the perspective of the "love interest" female character outside of a Ground Hog Day Loop in which the male character is trapped. "Palm Spings" plays it mostly for comedy, with the female character actually becoming stuck in the loop herself, while this episode deconstructs the idea to show just how horrifying the situation would be to an outsider looking in, as well as how desensitized the man trapped would become to any and all of his potential behavior. The men themselves are also antitheses, with Marc concluding that he's the only one that really matters while Palm Springs' Nyles maintains that what he does to other people still matters.