I’ve a grim fascination with the Long walk , as its an enjoyable book but the characters are really really suffering .My one caveat is that if its a movie or TV show they keep it as a sausagefest . I cant exactly explain why but a a co-ed death march would just be too bleak .

Great News always struck me as funny, but quite derivative. Not to the same degree as something like Superstore, but it was not shy about its influences.

That’s a fair point, and something that I expected to see before the show did that weird jump to fake asylum then real asylum. By that point in the post credits scene, I was just rolling with it, but I do think he should have been locked up. We shouldn’t spare our gods their unflinching cosmic justice just to let them…

Harrow not only escaped Ammit’s justice and Khonshu’s justice (well, for awhile anyway), he escaped human legal justice, too!

Sounds like you’re moving the goalposts when you go from arguing future crime punishment=bad to both gods=bad. You’re right that Khonshu is himself immoral, but not about this being, “logically consistent both with the characters and the moral arc of the show.” If it was logically consistent, Khonshu would have…

Same disappointment. The way they’ve switched the personalities around makes little sense. In the show, Marc is still a mercenary who has killed a ton of people for money, which he readily acknowledges in the scene with all the people he killed. In the comics, Marc trying to deal with his violent tendencies is central…

The problem with that logic is that Ammit already killed people, including the avatars of other gods. Harrow killed a lot of people in the name of whatever offenses that might be committed at a later date. It would be both retribution for these killings and preventative, as more would surely happen again if they were…

Sure, but this isn’t Batman or Superman where they go out of their way to not cross a line. This is Marc, who has not only crossed the line a long time ago, but is willing. And it would be right. Khonshu is right. If Amit lives, people will die. Sparing Amit is no different from allowing a bomb to kill thousands.

The only thing I didn’t like was Layla holding Marc back to strike the final blow. Nevermind that they’ve both killed a bunch of people throughout this season (and this episode), and Harrow contains an apocalyptic murder goddess that is a danger to the entire world, but it’s supposed to be some kind of character…

A+ on costuming.

Except that Harrow seems to have literally been killed by Lockley in the limo after being escorted outside of the asylum. If we’re to accept that Lockley killed Harrow, wouldn’t that be in the “real world?”

Look, I’m as surprised as you are that having an active Egyptian God kaiju battle raging on was not only the fight I explicitly wanted to only be a background thing, but was also directed as such. While I feel like the show didn’t nail the landing, it DID stick it, which is already pretty admirable, all things…

I barely remember what I ate for dinner two days ago.  This is Us expecting me to remember plot lines from 3+ years ago is too much.

The main reason I was excited about this episode because I was hoping to get more insight into Miguel’s marriage to Shelley and his relationship with Andy and Amber. I was really bummed when that whole time period was just summed up in two minutes. (Given how they treated Rebecca in that Thanksgiving episode a few…

I agree wholeheartedly. On the one hand, Marc is the first very obviously Jewish hero in the MCU--on the other, he’s just not that... Jewish?

A simple perspective: if you want to blame anyone for your existence, logically, you can either pick God or your mother.

I think furiousfroman is right. They put it out there and let people have their own read on it. The way it felt to me as a viewer was that we’re seeing him first angrily rejecting the ritual mourning he is supposed to be participating in at the shiva (and by extension his mother/feelings for her) and then embracing it…

My takeaway there is how faith is often tightly coupled with family. Though rather than explicitly explore that idea (6 episodes isn’t enough time for everything else here as it is) they just let that resonate for those who see it and let it lie for those for whom it doesn’t.

Presumably Marc’s understanding of a “typical” British accent changed over time (I mean, he goes from age ~10 to ~35 during that period), and Steven’s accent evolved with it.  

That was all good but they did miss an opportunity: when Marc finds out he’s dead he should have said a sh’ma. How baller would it have been to proclaim the unity of G-d right to Taweret?