That scene was done really well, you see her pain VERY obviously, and then it’s played for laughs in the sitcom.

“I accidentally pop you in the face ONCE. How many times do I have to say I’m sorry?” is not a benign line and a laugh track can’t make it one. I can very much see an abusive man growling that at his wife.

Why don’t you buy them back with your HEI points?!?

Season 2 was actually good.  The last thing I expected out of it was to want a Season 3, but it happened.

Not surprised Melissa Villaseñor is leaving, she was bizarrely underused but it’s been a crowded cast. Mmaybe she’ll find her own path post-SNL, like Jenny Slate has. Sometimes it’s just no the right fit.

Disneh

Rahul Kohli. He looks close enough to resemble John Krasinski, but is a better actor.

I thought the Mandarin twist was absolutely perfect! It dealt head-on with the very problematic original villain, but it also - hear me out - made the Mandarin a much more frightening thing.  The persona carefully curated to be scary to Americans, the unplaceable but foreign accent, the smoke and mirrors of the whole…

Am I the only one who read that Wilma Flintstone line as a gag about how Kevin looks exactly like Fred Flintstone?

“Why doesn’t she just leave?”

The names Goodman, Lieber and Kurtzburg in the firm's name refer to Martin Goodman (founder of Marvel Comics), Stan Lee (Stanley Lieber) and The King (Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzburg).

Norton is definitely... yeah. Enough said. With that in mind, I recall reading that he and Ruffalo are good friends, and Ruffalo called and made sure Norton was cool with him taking the role before accepting, so maybe he’d actually give a smarmy, self-satisfied smirk at the line.

He was in Ghosts as a neighbor for a couple episodes too.

They did have the DODC prison in Ms Marvel where the Clandestines were sent for like 5 minutes (and they broke out, too, so I guess it’s not the most secure prison)

In Shang Chi it’s shown Wong portals Blonsky in and out of the fight arena and they are friends. Wong also makes it sound like it’s a regular occurrence

This episode was named “Superhuman Law.” Not sure where you got “The Retreat” from — maybe that was the name on the screener?

Though why she couldn’t just leave him remains unexplained. You might say that’s authentic to an abusive relationship, but, again, I don’t feel the show does a good job depicting the abuse, bound by its concept not to actually show that.

Last season she mentioned being worried that Kevin would pull something if she tried to leave - like when she didn’t answer her phone and he reported the car stolen, or when she got a job he didn’t like and he got her fired. Also, despite her passionate hatred for Kevin, she still hasn’t been able to actually stand up…

According to the Rolling Stone article a few weeks back (it’s behind a paywall for me now, so sadly I can’t quote it, and what follows is IIRC), one big reason the whole Snyder Cut drama occurred was because Snyder had someone physically remove the hard drives containing his Justice League footage from the studio lot,…

A podcast I was listening to a couple weeks back made a very good point that the ripples from this event could spread much more widely than WB is/was hoping. Both of the directors and the actors starring in this movie are all represented by the same creative agency. Pulling the film wasn’t just a blow to those…