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I'm just crossing my fingers the academy's show of support over the wildfires doesn't involve interpretive dance to Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House"!

But it's about a girl! How will they get Snyder Bros to pay for tickets to a movie that might give them cooties?

There's also the matter of most bisexual men eventually settling down in long-term relationships with women (something like 89% in the most recent survey I read). Tommy has good reason to be guarded even if we know Buck is sincere about their relationship. I can say from experience, it's no fun to be dropped like a hot potato because someone decides he's at the right age/stage in life to get serious and that can only happen with a woman.

Plus all the catastrophic effects of ecosystems suddenly dealing with half the number of animals. (Plants didn't seem to be snapped, I guess Thanos considered them "resources" rather than lives. I wonder where fungi and other life forms that didn't fit the false animal/plant dichotomy fell?)

I'm not so sure. Agatha revealed she can only drain powers/life if the other witch(es) blast her, and all the ones we saw in flashback seemed pretty damn quick to resort to violence after being insulted. Agatha's attitude toward witches was a result of trauma from her first experience with her mother's coven, but I don't think she was necessarily wrong about most of the ones she killed. Alice and Lilia are the only two we've seen that I feel confident about being benevolent. (Jennifer may lean in that direction, but she has some edge and the hundreds of people suing her over her products probably wouldn't see her that way.)

Mark Metcalf was the actor who played the Master on that, though Brian Thompson did have a prominent role in the pilot, and in the Season 2 midseason finale/opener.

She wishes she were only 20 years older than those girls!

I suppose the really attractive young ladies (and certainly the ones with the confidence to aggressively pursue dating themselves) aren't the ones whose mothers feel it necessary to corner a newly eligible rabbi after services and throw their daughters at him.

Renewed for Season 2!

The charcuterie board faux pas reminded me of my mother's tale of welcoming my cousin's Jewish in-laws to a dinner with her signature entree—a slow-baked ham. She was mortified when she found out they had dietary restrictions forbidding it!

For me, it's because the iconic DC characters were the ones I read about most as a kid, so they're the ones more tightly bound up in my love of comics. The MCU's worst movies tend to feature heroes I don't care about that much (sorry, Iron Man and Ant Man), whereas when DC stinks up the theater it's often marquee characters like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman that are center stage.

It wouldn't be out of character for her to have done it intentionally, but then again I would find panicked and instinctive defensive reaction plausible while being possessed by the ghost of the mother who tried to execute you and wants to keep you in her clutches forever for punishment.

Noah seems a little young to me to be so focused on becoming head rabbi to a congregation that includes his parents, his domineering sister-in-law, possibly his ex girlfriend, and likely a lot of other people who have strong opinions about how he should live his life since they watched him grow up. Even removing Joanne from the equation entirely I don't see him being able to command the respect from that group of people that he would need to in order to be an effective moral/spiritual leader. If being head rabbi is his ultimate goal in life, I think he needs to do it further afield, with people who first meet him as an adult authority figure.

If a job is so controlling of your life that other people get veto power over your pre-existing romantic relationships, maybe it's not that great a job to strive for? (Note that I feel the same way about the RCC's restrictions on its clergy, and other faiths where the religion, race, or sex of someone's significant other is an issue.)

I ordinarily cast a disapproving eye upon the idea of cheating, but if this weird vibe Morgan and Sasha are developing results in Esther shrewing her way right out of the Roklov family and Noah's life, I wouldn't mourn.

Wouldn't an affiliated summer camp where he's known as "Hot Rabbi" be about the last place Noah would want to take Joanne if he's nervous about the reaction people at his temple might have to him dating her? I would imagine that even without his boss unexpectedly showing up, word about him bringing a hot blonde gentile woman to share his cabin would spread pretty quickly through the grapevine.

I think that's because she may not have really expected to open the gate to the Witches' Road at all, and was just using that as an excuse to gather covenless witches and steal their powers. Turns out Sharon was close enough to a witch to get them on the road after all.

In the hypothetical future of this show 20 years down the line, the sister will NOT be dealing well with no longer having the privilege that goes with being a young and pretty blonde. I was really wanting Noah to tell off the whole damn family for that "intervention" they staged over him showing interest in a woman they hadn't hand-picked for him. Particularly the sister-in-law trying to play Barbie with living human beings.

I like both the leads and it was refreshing that their characters both seem smart with a bit of edge, rather than the oblivious treacly types that I'm used to in Hallmark-style romcoms. Not that big a fan of how their families are being written so far—I like either very real-seeming supporting characters or complete campiness, though given Tovah Feldshuh's final line perhaps I shouldn't discount the latter possibility just yet.

I'm not really clear on what exactly Lilia is trying to get back. She's definitely psychic, able to extend her life for hundreds of years, and we saw energy crackling around her hand when Agatha was antagonizing her after singing the ballad. She doesn't seem the type who'd want that amped up into vast, world-famous power. She's in dire financial straits, but it seems too... pedestrian? to attempt a legendary, deadly supernatural quest just to ask for cash.

I have a sneaking suspicion Sierra's offer wasn't as appealing as Julian Works' or Natacha Karam's despite playing a major character on the show since the start. I hope she's able to find another project that will boost her career.

Hey, petroleum is natural. And organic!

No, it seems she was the Mrs. Kravitz-esque "nosy neighbor" archetype she'd pretended to be in Wandavision until recently from what John (Herb) said to her. She was probably popping into neighbors' kitchens uninvited to chat and gossip, with Wanda's spell translating whatever she saw and heard into her sitcom reality. The "Agnes of Westview" delusion was probably only a few days as Wanda's spell collapsed, due to Rio and/or Teen's interference.

I forget, did Grace's dad die after he was hospitalized in an earlier season? If not, taking care of him during an extended medical crisis would have made a lot more sense than sailing off halfway around the world to save orphans—it's something Grace might have realistically felt obligated to do as long as her husband and child were well. Also, no way in hell do I buy that Owen and his spindly old man arms can crack an armored car windshield when Marjan and Paul can't. If it had been Judd bailing them out, no issue—the man's a sasquatch—but we all know Lowe's ego would have had him swooping in to the rescue regardless. (No grief to the writers on that one, I'm sure they were rolling their eyes as hard as I did.)

Am I the only one who didn't buy Ariadne's mother suddenly becoming understanding and supportive after finding out she'd been wrong about blaming her for Glaucus' death for the past 30 years? Far more likely she'd double down and make everything that happened her fault (which, to be fair, it kind of was, although she had the best of intentions).