Review of The Mirror

The Twilight Zone: The Mirror (1961)
Season 3, Episode 6
5/10
Mirror mirror on the wall, who shall kill me after all?
7 July 2020
Unrecognizable Peter "Columbo" Falk depicts (at the heights of the Cuba crisis, I may add) Fidel Castro look-alike and rebellious revolution-leader Ramos Clemente, who has just successfully overthrown the dictatorship of a non-specified Central American nation. While still celebrating his victory with his companions, the fallen General De Cruz warns Clemente that, from now on, he should be wary of everyone becoming enemies. Heck, the glorious office even has a mirror that shows the owner his next potential assassin. Predictably, Clemente gets paranoid and sees how, behind his own reflection, his revolution comrades intend to murder him. Easily one of the weakest entries in "The Twilight Zone" thus far. The tale exaggeratedly and unsubtly attempts to warn people that Castro is a bad person, and the moral only states the obvious; - namely that power leads to greed, abuse and megalomania.
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