I still feel like this season is perhaps leading up to Shiv making some sort of bridge-burning open move against Logan (or at least trying to, even if it gets blown up in some way).  We shall see.

Art is good/bad when one particular person likes/dislikes it, namely me.

The show is definitely taking a long, luxurious soak in Shiv’s unearned arrogance and easy corruptibility. Which I am OK with as it is quite enjoyable for me, but I agree if this is just all there is going to be to Shiv’s story, it would ultimately limit her relevance.

Gilmore Girls is pretty on point, though, because at least the sequences set at college were basically about new female students at Yale (including Rory) dealing with romantic issues while also juggling classes, activities, and family. I note there was also some overlap of those seasons with the first few seasons of…

The main one that comes to my mind is the seasons of Gilmore Girls set at Yale.

That’s my favorite lyric from The Sound of Music.

Deuxne.

Assball.

Yes! Why do these hack ripoff movies keep featuring beloved actresses I simply can’t resist even in bad roles . . . oh, right.

To me, they have been hinting all along that something was different about Rambeau BEFORE she went through the barrier the first time, and the multiple encounters with Wanda’s powers/the barrier are interacting with that to cause her superpower evolution.

The emotional heart of the show is that the love between Wanda and Vision is real, and we are supposed to be hoping against reason that somehow they can emerge from all this together again. The first few episodes were in part focused on establishing that relationship in order to support the later dramatic tension, and…

I’ll reluctantly nominate HBO Max. I don’t love the price or the relative scarcity of higher-format content, but it just has so much content I really want to have.

I’ll reluctantly nominate HBO Max. I don’t love the price or the relative scarcity of higher-format content, but it…

I was actually pretty disappointed in how the finale rushed through convenient resolutions of various issues. I was particularly disappointed in how they addressed her denial of her alcoholism, which to me had been the dark backbone that kept me engaged despite an often pretty far-fetched action-thriller overlay.