What makes it “painful”? This is just a bizarre take. Maybe a new variant of the people who lost their minds over letterboxin in the 90s

There are Dick van Dyke references but the template for both episodes in both styles is obviously bewitched. Wanda is literally a witch, but has to hide her abilities but still uses them to help her husband etc. 

Happy Days wasn’t accurate but it wasn’t in any way trying to be historically accurate. It was basically a cartoon version of “the 50s”

Mad Men is a bad example. They referenced explicit dates during each season. If anyone thought it was always the 50s they were really confused. The first season has a New Year’s party for the 59/60 New Year’s Eve. Later season’s reference 11/22/1963. The final season was explicitly 1970

Wait. Someone said Vision’s nonsensical origin was “fantastic”?

I agree. I’ve never read comic books and so only knew what I was in the MCU movies and if you’d ask me which two characters I’d least like to see with their own movie or tv show I might have said Scarlet Witch and Vision. I know Bettany and Olsen are both good actors but their characters never clicked with me.…

22 minutes of show per 30 minutes used to be the broadcast network standard yes

I actually thought Wanda’s wardrobe and styling in the second episode were so modern and ordinary looking that they didn’t even qualify as “period” to me at least. Not sure if that was intentional or not

Right I think the UK is one of the few places that has its own robust tradition of TV sitcoms so doesn’t just import the American stuff. There’s some cross pollination but it’s usually that a UK show was remade for US TV a la “Man of the House/Three’s Company” and whatever the source was for “All in the Family”

I did find myself wondering what age/generation this was aimed at (though as a 48 year old I loved it). MCU movies are truly for all ages. I don’t have kids but my friends who do watch virtually all of them with kids as young as like 6. To enjoy this you’d have to have a pretty good knowledge of the early 60s sitcoms…

I feel like I’m losing my mind reading this and I love it!

I found the first Drag Race UK pleasant enough but kind of underwhelming. It seems like the UK queens, while likeable people, just aren’t larger than life characters the way North American queens are

I agree. I’m getting impatient for an episode where someone gets eliminated. I love Nicole Byer too.

I’m finding the Porkchop queens far more likeable in general than the winner queens and I’m sure that will be leaned into by the editors and the queens themselves as the winning queens get more and more hubristic and…

That Bachelor fella sure does get the kiss a lot of pretty ladies! I’m not judging them I’m just jealous

I really don’t understand why they did the mini challenge. The maxi challenge barely made sense to watch it was so edited

Yeah I really didn’t get the spy/mole idea since, as you point out, they’re already all being filmed 24 hours a day. And I agree it seemed strange, and smacked of extreme producer interference, that the winning queens didn’t simply ask Eliott what happened to her and the other queens. And even moreso it strains…

Yeah I’m with you it was a really pleasant episode and particularly welcome after this insane week but I’m already getting a bit tired at having no eliminations and no explanation as to what the structure of the season is going to be for two weeks in a row. 

The police aren’t part of the government? There was literally a scene where the Daleks helped police crack down on a fake riot/protest but go off I guess

I saw it as a hamhanded shot at Trump, which is basically what the whole Robertson character is

Yeah I think this would be a good time to take a break for awhile. Or rather, the final Capaldi/Moffat season would’ve been a good time. There’s no law that says Doctor Who has to always be on the air like an American style “institution” show or something