Coming to the A.V. Club in six months:

The first rule of Republican Orgy Club is, you do not talk about Republican Orgy Club.

I don’t know about how long it’ll be gone.

It’s going to be a hard pill for these rich white men to swallow when their teenagers and their mistresses can’t get an easy abortion, and far more of their daughters have been getting abortions than they even know.

I’d love to see a Rian Johnson movie, or series, or series of movies, unencumbered by the Skywalker Saga and its accompanying baggage and expectations.

the battle with music notes especially seemed like something out of a cartoon, altho i liked it

I suspect that for a fair number of people, the influence of the Darkhold on her wasn’t clear/obvious enough. Maybe an occasional Voice of Cthon in Her Head voiceover would've made people happier.

I don’t agree with your friends thinking the film did her disservice from WandaVision. If they wanted a happy ending for Wanda, sure. You’re gonna be disappointed. But WV essentially set up her up on a tragic figure arc that Strange 2 followed through and ended. Elizabeth Olsen was fantastic in both showing how…

I think that this could have been highlighted better by the movie, and maybe is only really clear from watching Wanda’s whole arc, but her motivation isn’t simply that she wants her children back. It’s that her only family for the longest time was her brother, who was killed during the fight with Ultron. Then she…

Got it.

Well, him and Palpatine.

Don't be bad, please. No Book of Obi Fett. 

Wanda being given a pass each time she does progressively more horrible things due to past trauma is pretty much her entire story in the comics.

Kind of an odd choice to use this particular song for the gag, as it’s famously his one song that he didn’t actually want to do, and it only exists because Madonna herself asked for it.

Kinda fails to account for the fact that people are born in red states who don’t drink the kool-aid, too, and all the future pregnant minors who are well and truly out of luck. 

Yeah, it’s like reviewing a Ferrari and complaining that it doesn’t have a trailer hitch and can’t tow your boat.  It’s fine if you want a truck and not a sports car, but you shouldn’t review them with the same expectations either.

I finally saw No Way Home the other night. It was a lot of fun, but I found myself really irritated at Strange. He agrees to modify the memory of everyone in the world to help a teenager get into college; starts casting the spell without discussing the parameters with said teenager; then repeatedly blames the kid when…

“too many Raimi-esque flourishes”

So after Wanda harms other people to create a fantasy where she can be happy and is ultimately persuaded that this is wrong, she’s going to do it again?

I grew up in a very red state (which I did eventually move out of as an adult), and I always hated that logic. People just boil huge geographic areas down to “blue” or “red” and forget that even in my deep red home state, like 40% of the votes were against Republicans.

Watching a couple of previous entries to understand a few references is hardly homework. Whoever is going will have already seen ‘em.