I kept coming back to, this is only happening a few weeks after the blip. Sure, Wanda’s dealing with a lot of loss, but half the people in that town had someone disappear, reappear five years later, and just as they’re adjusting to that, well, shit, I guess we’re all being mind controlled now.

Everyone: “Agatha’s not evil! Agatha’s not evil! Agatha’s not evil!”

Isn’t “for the children” just a sitcom trope. Isn’t it just the generic stand-in for charity work. “The ladies committee is putting on a talent show for the children” feels very ‘60's sitcom to me.

A few random thoughts:
* Oh, are we mad that the fifth male lead of the fourth-best movie in a franchise where 11 movies total didn’t make what Endgame/Infinity War/Black Panther made was underused? Puh-leaze. Peters’ Quicksilver was fun and had two good scenes, but he wasn’t the cosmos.

* Notice how all the clamoring…

A few things:

Vision and Vision having a rhetorical showdown after their physical one was welcome. I loathe a lot about Age of Ultron, but I have always liked Vision and Ultron’s conversation. Excited to see what they do with the Vision now.

Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) didn’t swoop in to save the day, either. This was Wanda’s victory. Showrunner Jac Schaeffer and director Matt Shakman deserve credit for never losing sight of whose story this actually was. It’s been a hell of a ride, and I’ve enjoyed every minute.

I think the biggest shocker for me in this episode is how well they pulled off the Scarlet Witch costume. Not cheesy or exploitative, but still hot as hell. (Pun semi-intended)

I thought it was an appropriate punishment for Agatha, and I’m very glad we’re likely to see Kathryn Hahn again.

Is anybody obese that doesn’t suffer hypertension?

Smoking is on the list in PA as well. Or a BMI over 30. Which accounts for most of the local population regardless of age.

Oh boy. Wait until you hear about condoms, which are 85% effective for the average user, and 98% in the best case scenario.

Do whatever, just be honest about your methods ffs. I sure as hell wouldn’t trust someone’s stupid app lol. I’ve known women who’ve straight up lied about whether they remember taking the pill that day simply “so it’s not awkward.” That’s fucked.

From what I understand, Spader does have a voice credit for the show.

I guess I mean cliched. He is THE overplayed trope. It’s eye-rolly.

Looks like the Peters casting is indeed just a gag for the viewers (phew). His character seems to be a version of Pietro that knows what he needs to know and says what he needs to say. That’s why he knows more than he should: he was created (by Wanda accidentally? By something else?) to fill an emotional void.

I’m still in the “she’s being manipulated camp” for now. She genuinely doesn’t seem to know how all of this started and the opening credits theme song makes it sound like something else is behind it.

Exactly, like if someone gets hit and killed while some remorseless tech company tests an autonomous vehicle in Arizona...or you know, somewhere. Then everything will change.

Whoa, JCL, COBOL and the then-new IBM SQL offering for mainframes called DB2. Before that we used another database product called IMS and I hated it.

I heard a story of one employee who did the overnight shift, and stored his beer under the panels - you know, keep them cool. Needles to say he got caught a few months later.

Not to mention the perennial amusement of what happens when someone is running fiber up through a hole where a floor tile has been removed in order to test a connection and someone puts the tile back.

Good times.  Good times.