Rahul

Staged and produced, 100%

This show is still so dull. I did a time check and was only 22 minutes in. Even this "new" unfiltered Dorit vs Kyle feud is not holding my attention. Save me.

Well I am. Make no mistake, that man has zero sexual attraction to women. On a heterosexuality scale from 1 to 10, he’s the letter K.

I’ve had vegan dark chocolate truffles made for avocado and they were sublime. You’d never know it was made from avocado.

I have family in Leicester (was just there for several weeks this summer) and Andy doesn’t sound like he has a Leicestershire accent to me at all. He’s so unintelligible I have to rewind and put the subtitles on every time he’s on screen. His accent sounds very Cockney to me.

Good God, this show has gone terribly downhill in quality. This was so tedious to get through it took me over a year. I could care less about the various political factions that want Ciri for their own ends. Also, why is Robbie Amell in this now? His accent is atrocious.

I was not anticipating this level of raunch. I don't mind it, but I don't think I would have sat down and watched it with my mother had I been apprised of just how sex-driven this show is. At times I wonder if it was penned by a sexually frustrated pubescent boy. That being said, the whole premise is very hard to handwave in the era it's set. I'm a NYC born and raised Indian American. I was just in India for 3 months this past April/May. There would not be this degree of culture shock with any family from a major metro in 2024--perhaps if they were from a remote village it would be a different store. This conceit would have worked better in a different era (70s or 80s particularly), but I'll give it a pass. What I cannot accept is the atrociously offensive faux Indian accents--especially by the kid who plays Kamal. It's absolutely atrocious! Couldn't they have hired a better actor, or at least a dialect coach?

I thought this episode was brilliant and had so many zingers and much tongue-in-cheek humor. I totally did not see Teen being "Black Heart" from Lilia's list, as I fell for the obvious red herring of Rio with her line about having a black heart that beats for Agatha. What exactly did Lilia see in her vision of William and why did she feel the need to give him the sigil? I understand she sugar coated (well more like straight up lied) about the meaning of the broken lifeline, but what exactly was her intent in hiding his identity? How could she have foretold that hiding him from other witches was necessitated here?

I found a couple of moments where Jane committed phenomenal blunders on the missions that were shown interspersed throughout the therapy sessions because she has clearly been established as the better of the two operatives. First of all, during the game night, Jane would have used the sniper riffle to first kill the man in the yellow shirt, because he was the only armed target among them. Instead, they had her take him out last, endangering John's life. No way Jane would have done that. Secondly, during the fight in the elevator where the lift kept comically going further up and up the skyscraper, Jane would have likely taken a second to hit some buttons on the control panel to either stall the elevator or ensure that it stopped at a floor a few levels above the lobby when she realized what was happening. She would definitely not have allowed the elevator to advance all the way to the roof so that John had to climb 20+ stories with his asthma and be of no help to her. Both these incidents were totally in service of the story the writers wanted to tell but they really did interfere with my suspension of disbelief. That being said, I applaud the creative use of the the therapy session in this episode to push the narrative of John and Jane's troubled relationship forward. I enjoyed Sarah Paulson in the role of the therapist and knew her life (or home, as it were) was in peril the second she revealed she had been recording all the sessions. Also, kudos to Donald Glover for the acting in that scene where he finally lost it in the woods and went on an absolutely acerbic diatribe calling Jane incapable of genuine human emotion and falling somewhere on the autistic spectrum. There was something so primal and real about that argument between the lovers. I felt that in my gut. The acting on this show has been something to behold.

For the past week, no matter if I'm on my iPad on Macbook, clicking a topic I've already read no longer brings me to the first new post. Instead I'm brought to the first post in the thread every time.

I was looking forward to this 70s rock themed episode the least from the trailers and so far, I has been the episode I liked the least. I felt like the trial wasn't particularly challenging and was too simple with an abrupt ending. If Rio's true identity is did Agatha know this before entering a relationship with her?

Sumayah was robbed. That duck cake blew everything else out of the water. She should have been star baker.

What does everyone make of what occurred in the witches' poison induced hallucinations--specifically with Jennifer Kale and Lilia Calderu? To me it appeared that Jennifer was being drowned by a man who donned some kind of surgical garb from the 1800s. I'm very curious to know what was going on there.

Lilia Calderu is a divination witch who has the power of premonition and sees flashes of the future. I took this moment to be her having one particular such flash, of an event happening in the (not so distant) future. I'm certain that line will come to pass at some point on The Witches' Road. In the second episode, we saw her have another such moment of non-lucidity where she seemed to be hallucinating and yelled out "Get them off of me" or something.

So Sharon died because no one thought to include her hair and DNA in the potion? C'mon gals...I thought they would handle the task at hand a bit better than that. Loved the parody reference to Tiny Little Lies Everywhere, a hodgepodge of the TV adaptations of Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere. The show is doing some heavy handed hinting that Teen may in fact be Nicholas Scratch, Agatha's son who she gave up for the Darkhold but this seems like a very obvious misdirect to me--especially so early in the season.