Monica Rambeau: First Blood Part II: WandaVision “We Interrupt This Program”
Previously on WandaVision: Wanda and Vision have lived a clandestine existence in three decades of stereotyped TV fantasies thus far, and in 30 years of marriage are just now getting around to having...
View ArticleDeranging Women: WandaVision “On a Very Special Episode...”
Previously on WandaVision: The town of Westview has been taken over by B-team Avenger Wanda Maximoff, who’s been driven insane by grief. She’s using her reality-warping powers to force everyone in the...
View ArticleI guess you are the boss of me now: WandaVision “All New Halloween...
Previously on WandaVision: Vision the Big Red Bot is starting to notice some odd things about the world around him. His house and clothes age at the rate of a decade per day. His kids put on five years…
View ArticleAvengered Development: WandaVision “Breaking the Fourth Wall”
Previously on WandaVision: Everything’s falling apart for Wanda. Her husband just tried to break out of Rerun Land and she had to expand its borders to stop him from disintegrating. Her suddenly...
View ArticleOne witch, two witch, red witch, blue witch: WandaVision “Previously On”
Previously on WandaVision: Vision, fresh from his escape attempt, was running home to talk to Wanda, who was being held captive by newly revealed villain Agatha Harkness, a hipster witch who was into...
View ArticleChaos reigns (in primetime): Wandavision “The Series Finale”
Previously on WandaVision: Agatha pored through Wanda’s memories and deduced that she was the prophesied Scarlet Witch, a thing we’re not quite sure what it is, except that it means you can do magic...
View ArticleBack on the beat: Cop Rock “Oil of Ol’ Lay”
Previously on Cop Rock: Officers Campo and Quinn were hot for each other, even though Quinn is married to forensics detective Ruskin. We know they’re hot for each other because there’s a clip of an...
View ArticleMake Captain America great again: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “New...
A year and a half ago, Disney and Marvel Studios could not have anticipated what a wide-open market they’d have for their new line of streaming miniseries (or maybe they did—muahahaha!). But what they...
View ArticleThe old man and the serum: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “The...
Previously on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: The titular Falcon, Sam Wilson, wanted to help save his sister’s fishing boat, but since being an Avenger doesn’t, strictly speaking, pay (why would...
View ArticleThe Madripoorian: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Power Broker”
Previously: Bucky and Sam were trying to remain in the superhero business in the wake of the naming of a new Captain America with unclear loyalties and an even unclearer agenda. He had something to do...
View ArticleWakanda weak Captain America is this? The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “The...
Previously: The leader of the Flag-Smashers, Karli Morgenthau, is an anarcho-Thanosist terrorist with a Game of Thrones accent. Likes: bombs, stealing, being a super-soldier. Dislikes: governments,...
View ArticleMontage daydream The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Truth”
Previously: Sam’s sister Sarah still can’t make her fishing boat payments, even though she has twice as many customers now. John Walker injected himself with some stolen super-soldier serum in order to...
View ArticleBlack-tain America and the Winning Soldier: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier...
Previously: John Walker used the world’s last dose of super-serum to juice himself up to fight bad guys, but then lost his Captain America status for aggravated lack of chill. A shadowy unelected...
View ArticleLowkey Loki: Loki “Glorious Purpose”
“Wait a minute,” you may say, if you’ve been keeping up. “Isn’t this guy dead?” Yes indeed, the opening scene of Avengers: Infinity War saw the godly neck bones of Loki, Tom Hiddleston’s breakout...
View ArticleWhen you need a lawyer handy: Cop Rock “Cop-a-Feeliac”
Previously on Cop Rock: Officer Quinn got shot, but luckily it was just a flesh wound. Her husband Ruskin demanded she get a new partner, but it was all a transparent ploy to get his wife away from...
View ArticleLoki be a lady tonight: Loki “The Variant”
Previously on Loki: Loki, god of slash fic mischief, has escaped from his destined death via time travel shenanigans and immediately gotten himself arrested by the all-powerful Time Variance Authority,...
View ArticleStrange ones on a train: Loki “Lamentis”
Previously: With the help of Protagonist Loki, the TVA managed to track down the Loki who’s been killing all their Minutepeople. And it’s a Lovely Lady Loki! But they weren’t able to foil Lady Loki’s...
View ArticleStaff meeting: Loki “The Nexus Event”
Previously on Loki: Loki and Sylvie, Loki’s gender-swapped alternate-timeline iteration, were a real mismatched pair, whose similarities in personality only accentuated their rivalry. Marooned in the...
View ArticleWithnail and Lok-I: Loki “Journey into Mystery”
Previously: Loki and Sylvie are trying to spread the word among the TVA agents that they’re all mind-erased variants from extinct timelines pressed into TVA service. Sylvie’s nemesis, Judge Renslayer,...
View ArticleCan’t keep a god man down: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Strange Energies”
For all you who may be new around here: I did not care for the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. And what with all the free time we’ve had this past year, I did a lot of…
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