Review of The Mirror

The Twilight Zone: The Mirror (1961)
Season 3, Episode 6
8/10
Mirror Turns Out Very Accurate For This One
15 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Peter Faulk would go on after this to become the annoying detective, the guy who is like a pebble in your shoe if he is after you. This trip to the Zone is a role reversal. Faulk plays a banana republic dictator who has just overthrown the previous guy. It starts with his take over.

He is in the Presidential palace and is celebrating his great victory with his allies. He is the farm boy to leader story. Only the former President tells him about a mirror in the room. The images in the mirror will show him who is faithful to him and who is not.

The only thing is being a Zone mirror, it seems to start telling him that he can trust no one. So Faulk starts to execute every prisoner, and every enemy he has. The Executions last for days on end. Finally, another aspiring leader comes along and kills him, only to start the same process all over again.

The mirror gets broken, but it does not seem to offer any solutions for what is happening.
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