Tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone is a political allegory about a communist dictator in Central America who gets a magic mirror that, he believes, will reveal who is plotting against me. It’s undeniably heavy-handed but, at the same time, it’s a lot of fun to watch Peter Falk play Fidel Castro.
This episode was written by Rod Serling and directed by Don Medford. It was originally broadcast on October 20th, 1961.
Through the Shattered Lens 
Mirror image is an ok, haunting episode, but there are a couple of things that bothered me about it. Milicent Barnes is overall a nice looking, soft spoken woman who starts seeing and hearing daunting, irregular things. She gets told about doing or asking things she never remembers saying or doing. Then she starts seeing doubles of herself. First, she inquires about when the bus will arrive, for the first time, and is rudely told she’s already inquired the same question several times. I really did not like how horribly rude the man working at the bus station was to Milicent, even if she did act nervous and was asking the same question several times. I wished she would’ve just slapped that ***hole. The woman in the bathroom also noticed how unsteady Milicent was acting, but she was much nicer and more genuinely concerned for her. Then comes the worse part: a young man also acts nice and concerned for Milicent and even offers to help her and do her a favor. Then he sneakily double crosses her, and has the police come and immediately take her away. And then the police, so suddenly just come and aggressively grab her and throw her into the police car without so much as even speaking to her or asking her any questions, as if she was holding up the station at gunpoint or something. I really felt for Milicent in this episode. She did not deserve to be treated this way just because she was having hallucinations and acting scared.
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