Mannix: Broken Mirror (1972)
Season 6, Episode 4
2/10
Swimming in the sewer
13 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This one is about a guy who hires Joe to find out why his wife was kidnapped.

The story line about the identical twin has been seen many times before on other TV shows so this is yet another episode that reuses old plot elements and lacks originality. It's not well-acted either and is pretty awful.

As usual, there are lots of plot holes. How did the woman disappear from the boat when there were no other boats around? And why did the husband disappear for the last two thirds of the episode? And of course there's no way Joe could have survived underwater for that long.

There are some clichés too of course. Joe gets shot at but not hit and admits he was followed but didn't do anything about it.

Then there's some sheer lunacy. Even though there are no police on the scene and no guns pointed at her, Margo just confesses to Joe for no reason and takes him to where Gina is being held.

Anjanette Comer's performance is one of the worst I've seen on this show yet. She's stiff, soft-spoken and speaks in a monotone and is difficult to hear at times and unfortunately she commands most of the screen time since Jon Cypher (who plays her husband) mysteriously disappears about a third of the way in. Maybe he could see what a debacle this is and decided to bail to avoid going down with the sinking ship. It's still pretty strange though since he's the one who hired Joe. I don't believe this has happened on any other episode to date.

At one point Billie talks about how Margo has been swimming in the sewer and that phrase perfectly describes the state of the show overall right now. There hasn't been a single episode so far this season that has been even remotely interesting or entertaining. The show has deteriorated badly and rapidly.
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