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01:32Let's cast a spell, and now you're mine.All righty, gang.That, dare I say, was a banger.Gee.Take it away.What did you think?I was very much engrossed in it.and I'll say this
01:58anyone who's been watching us for yearsknows we're always making jokesand sometimes that can be misinterpretedfor making fun of showinstead of having fun with showand usually when we're having a good time with the showwe're just making jokes with the showso it's how we just watch things
02:15part of Who Real Regix is for the longest timelike Penguinbut yeah Penguin is a great show that we're loving right nowwe're always making jokesand what was so cool about this structurehere is thatthe way the narrative deviceis done, it forces
02:31you to kind of just payclose attentionor else you're going to miss some importantdetail because of howit thrusts you into a veryunique POV of Lillia.Because when you're in her POVof someone who is in and out of different time
02:47frames, youstart to pick up the puzzle pieces along with her.So I liked how as an audience member you becomepart of like the investigationwith her. You're like playing detectivealong with her so you are kind of forced to likeyou relegate down to like so we'reall like sort of like okay all right
03:03trying to like pick up on it as welland then feeling rewarded whenyou do guess things before they revealthem in a good way not in like athis shit's predictable because it wasn't predictableit was like you would guess it right beforethey're about to say it. Yeah you know soI wouldn't say it's a predictable thing it's
03:19it's like that feeling of reward ofyour oh I get itlike reading a mystery novel like when youfigured out the page before and you're like yeah like oh my god it's not like oh this is yeah yeah so ithought i thought it was brilliant and you guys might not know exactly what i'm referencing andwhen i keep saying the mike flanagan episode so there's like this was some considered one of thebest plot twist ever in house of house of um hunting of hill house my bad yeah honey of hill house uhepisode four i believe episode four or five the rose episode sure you've seen that right boy i love that
03:49true um well i don't remember which episode you kind of just it's the big reveal episode of what isreally going on with this rose character i'll just say that if you haven't seen it's absolutelygenius and it's a i heard there's a big twist before i watch it did not predict it at all and i don't knowanyone else who has it's like this brilliant reveal and then his follow-up show haunting a bligh mannerhas a similar thing where with um a character to go in and out through time and you're puttingtogether these different pieces and stuff and it's like totally very similar to that it's not aping itit's just very reminiscent of that that kind of episode you know what episode that is youYeah.
04:24So it's a very specific type of thing that you don't see done a lot.And I love it for in terms of just writing because it shows that this writing team had to map out a season.It wasn't just like, well, we'll see what happens next.Like they had to map out a season.They had to map out specific lines for her.It's like it had me going, when did they figure out this episode for Lilia?And then they had to go back in place little nuggets so that way they can have the giant reveal,the tariff card, like you're literally
04:55on the tariff card journey revealthroughout this whole episode with her.So I think it's just a verysort of meta-layeredexecution ofwriting. I was verymuch impressed by. I thought it was a veryimpressive episode. It was my favorite one by far.
05:11Yeah, no, I would agree. Koi.I'm sorry, Agatha all along. I wasn't awareof your game.This was,this was, this was.Agatha did cook. Though Agatha herself wasShe did cook this week.This was the show, dare I say I want it all along.
05:31This was truly what I have been hoping for the investment of for me with characters.I personally like coy struggles with art when I can't find my way into the eye line.Like when I'm watching something and it's just entertaining, I can enjoy it, but I don't get invested.Like there's always like, you know, watching it through.opaque glass versus transparent glassversus being on the stage. Like there's always layersremoving me and when I when I can like feelwith a character it takes it above
06:00just entertainment and I feel and I identifywith and I connect and that's what Iusually get out of these shows becauseI am a comic book readerfrom that I learn to read with comic booksso I think that a lot of people get mad that Isometimes judge things either not harshlyenough or too harshly because I'm known
06:16as the guy that like loves this stuff and I loveit because it literally taught mewhat I consider my moralWho I am, the things that make me, me are because of comic books.The stakes couldn't be higher.I think my biggest fear in life is losing my mind.I really honestly, like, I value intelligence, I value intellect, I value reading, I valuecommunication, I value what it is to be human, to me is words.
06:43My favorite thing in language is word, like the concept of word that we've developedsomething that we can pass on, that we can have stories, that you can pick up a book andeverything you've ever wanted to know.someone has already learned it can convey to you like the idea of what we've created with thoughtand speech is everything to me so now this show was like by the way glad you stayed herebecause it gave me an eye line and now i cannot wait to watch it again like i'm going to go backbecause like i'm so afraid of losing my mind i'm so afraid of the inevitable dementia or Alzheimer'sor the number of things that happen as we age i'm so afraid of slipping through reality i i get
07:19sensory overload where I don't know if I'm real and it scares me like I have moments of totaldisassociation at times when I'm overstimulated and this episode made me feel this episode made meconnect to that this episode gave me so much that I was looking for while feeling like thatincredible scarlet witch run on the road while feeling like it's blending IP in a dope way whilefeeling like it's paying off on what it's set out to do in a way that is deserving of thesecharacters and these writers and these actressesthat I honestly hadn't connected to yetI loved episode four but it was
07:54like one two and three I was tryingand then four I was like oh I'm here and it's harderwhen you feel that thing and then you lose it againbut this explained to mea lot of the why and it gave me a character to connectto and it gave me so much like I'mso happy right now and I and Ireally I really just want to
08:11rewatch the show with these new eyes and delete all my reviewsthat's not going to happen but like it really gives mewhat I was looking for yeah like it honestlythis is what I was looking for so I'm just overjoyedI'm this was so special for me I got to justreally quickly add on to what you were sayingbecause in terms of the comicside of it this episode
08:28and this show in particular has reallyset itself aside even if youlove the show in total from beginningto end there's been a lot of people have been sayingbut it doesn't really feel like a Marvel showyou know it doesn't really feel like whatever I don't know what thatreally meansthat could be a good thing but there are people
08:44who have been sayingyeahwhether setsthey built itbut people have been saying thatand it's like oh it feels moreyeah it's like a witch showand I really like how it's really embraced
08:56it being a witch showhowever when youintroduce this character of deathand have that big revealyou're also getting that comic bookpayoff in that regardso I like how this showwas able to really do its own thing
09:10with a structure that felt akinto something out of Loki season twomeets that Mike Flanagan shit I was talking aboutwhilst still alsogiving you, oh, here's your big comic bookmoment with the character of death.Yeah. It felt like such a payoff.John, I monologued. I apologize.
09:25I know you've loved this show. I want to know if it elevatedor what was your experience. It's the one he didn't.You know, I was on board until this one.I'm actually kind of bland and confusing.I've seenMemento already. Yeah.No, I love this episode.I was overjoyed as well. I feel like
09:43everything you guys have brought up isbeautifully said. AndI mean, yeah, this...We haven't talked about performances.Well, and as a...Categories we did not touch us.No, no, for sure.For sure.
09:54To make sure you have something.No, absolutely.And that is on my mind.Connect to your own trauma.This does.Yeah.Well, I mean, this episode in multiple ways, like, this was really fun to watch becausethis was clearly firing on all possible cylinders.
10:09This was reaching, like, the very high potential for what just this show could possibly be.And yeah, it delivered me something that was like,quite again supernatural witchy but also yeah that's like a little bit sci-fi and a little bitsort of timey-wimey and almost like that bookcase thing i was like interstellar like there's there'sa mishmash of cosmic supernatural loveliness that i think they encapsulated here that is also likereally well distilled through the motif of taro and the idea that you know that debate of likeit's a scam it's just subjective this is all like kind of what you want to make out of itversus like, no, if you really focus, you might be able to, and especially in the fantastical
10:51context of this, you know, if you focus in and attenuate, you can divine what the actualmessages and what the actual spiritual, you know, slipstream is and, you know, follow that.And I thought as, and yeah, as this show has gone on, with some exceptions, they have donea fun job of giving certain episodes, you know, as an opportunity to spotlight a particularperformer, particular actor, and I feel likesome people have benefited greatly from that.I feel bad for Allie On, because I feel likeher character benefited the least
11:24from that kind of treatment, but here,Patty Lepone, just like, asan opportunity, like, I never thoughtI would be sitting in front of a Marvel showthat is just like a full episodewhere Patty Lepone just gets to takethe reins and be center stageand, you know, shine
11:40the world-class talent that sheis and has been for so long to, you know,like, from theheight of the pop cultureobelisk. Tens and millions of eyeballsbecause of. Yeah. Andit's just, you know, this isa show that seems like, yeah, it has benefited
11:56from an amountof foresight. When we watched Loki seasontwo recently, it seemed verygleamingly clear that like when theyhave a plan for these showsahead of time andbarring any sort of...This is the part where you don't really
12:14have to look at us. You can just listen.But, you know, I feel like they're barring any sort of intervention from, like, huge world circumstances or whatever.You know, some shows seem like they're more thought out than others.And I didn't know exactly what to expect coming into this show.But yeah, looking at Loki season two, we were sitting there going, man, look what you can achieve when you have a plan.And I'm sure they updated things and had rewrites.But like, look what happens when you come up with a plan, flesh that plan out, and then shoot that plan.It's all part of the plan.
12:47And this felt like part of the plan.And certainly, yeah, like, I feel like the previous episode did suffer from being slight.And so, like, that feels a little, you know, outside of her anomalous to the plan.But, like, this, I didn't know what to expect from Agatha all along going in.I was like, is this going to be a fun side quest?Is this going to be essential or not?And from here, I'm like, this is kind of neat because, like, yeah, Billy, I'm sure will be interconnected.And I'm sure death is a character.
13:13We're going to see Agatha.I'm sure at least we will see againbut like this seems like it's occupyingits whole own neat little lanewhere I feel like you know people are actuallykind of flocking to the show and checking it outand it's been kind of event TV to some degree each weekand this episode was cool
13:29because it's like yeah obviouslythe Wiccan reveal is going to be a big thing for the futurebut like also just this showhas managed to be something uniqueand there's clearly a lot of reallylovely thought and craftand effort put intoto it and like watching this episode kind of made me misty-eyed at points because too it was the
13:49culmination of seeing like my gripe about the episode last week was sort of like I know you can dothis well because I've seen you do a bunch of other stuff well so I'm just bummed we can get thatopportunity whereas here I was like this is you're getting to shine all the stuff that you do sowell as a show and on top of that I'm also just kind of emotionally affected by the actual characterjourney of yeah lilia doubting herself and you know being sort of excelling in certain you knowfacets of the trade the craft and feeling very shaky on others and yeah her like little journey ofyou know completeness and self-actualization and bringing together all the disparate elements of herjourney in these weird little flashes and interludes and and moments where she's transported out
14:32of time like all that culminated into something that was both really neat from a high conceptyou know pulp angle but also like really touching from just like oh wow like and it's all in theperformance like again patty lapone is like a world-class performer and and yeah just likeI felt kind of misty-eyed as she was putting it all together and clarity was dawning upon her andand yeah she was able to like truly shine and to really again in function of the plot save everyone'sasses but also you know really go out on such a beautiful high note and that last moment of peace forthe character as she falls into the swords with the tower the flip of the tower and like there'sso many great little details like if you know any little i'm not a terrorist expert but i know little
15:16things and they've done a great job of elacing that throughout the show like this is just so wellconstructed for what it is in terms of again the the you know the stuff that they're drawing fromthat's actually part of our world and i like when comics to bring in like you know death existsthroughout so much folklore and so much history and so do you know these tenets of whichbut they're all adapted here for Marvel and I feel like yeah this is I'm excited like you said to go back and rewatch it and to see all the little clues and the little mysteries and see yeah how a second watch of the show goes down and I was already feeling like oh yeah I could pull this out every Halloween it's pretty I'm enjoying it it's a lot of fun but yeah at this point I'm really excited to see whatever culminates in the finale and also was just yeah super impacted by this episode for sure you thought we monologuedLadies and gentlemen, I'm excited to shout out today's sponsor because it is an app that I have been using since before we partnered with them, which just makes my job easy.And I just get to share with you something I really do love.And that is the Acorns app.
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18:25In the beginning, there was witches and then, man.You got to talk about, like, what it means to be alive with, like, the essence of human experience and this.I'm going to take credit slash blame for this journey.We all went on together, introvertedly and extrovertedly.Sure.Introspectively and extrospectively.No, no, I agree with what you're going to say.I was actually going to comment on your comments.
18:47I really like that it is something that opens up doors that you can choose how much to see.Something you said about the taro.Oh, the intuition.in the beginning of your journey through the mental experience of it,I really like that when you tarot,it is usually stuff that you've intuited yourself, that you've blocked.And I like that the episode was all about stuffthat she wasn't letting herself see,
19:11but that unraveled like when you were playing a deck of tarot.Yeah, I like that the actual experience of the show,Greg pointed out that it was the format,but I like that even the way I think of tarofeels like you're unlocking stuff that you yourself know about you,but you need to see a card for it to,unlock so I really enjoyed that she got to have that because the whole time I've been like I hear thispat-in-lapone is amazing yeah and I feel like she was getting short change and that was a purpose behind it
19:35and we got to discover it with her in a way that felt like thinking no that's the brilliance I thinkof the opening shot I feel like it's very intentionally making you because that shot up from getout is so famous that there's nothing else really that you'll probably think of right and theneven when she's originally falling from the profile shot you can't see what she's falling intodoesn't even really look like she's in a room it looks like just a black void so it does seem likeyou are in what i love about the setup of that is that it's yeah showing you physically where she'sgoing to land what her ultimate and part of her journey will be however it is also visually as adirector throwing you into her mindset having you subconsciously think you're going into her
20:15subconscious yeah yeah yeah yeah i think it's a really smart like visual cue because that is whatit's doing it's it's both going physically and mentallywith our character, Lilia.And the narrative allows for thatbecause it's been doing thingsthat are references to other things.So like the door,like the, you mentioned another seller,
20:31I do like that the showfrom episode two or what,actually from episode onewith your detective slash mayor of Easttown.It's always been acknowledging other stuffand shortcutting to that emotional connectionin this case of subconscious.Yeah.
20:42And I also like too that they didn'tjust completely drop the whole William Billy thingbecause they would,with him questioning like,who am I really?I like how there is still a question of identityfor this guy who has nowjust inherited a body
20:55and is also having like familylike he has parentsI have a mom I have a momI have parents but then I'm also the childof Scarlet Witch like there's all these like complicationsand I like that I like that didn't drop the complexity of thatand the Kevin Faggy yes no that was that was gonna beone two even just a little thing
21:12I like that they were like someone's gonna ask but comicswell and I guess the last just little stray thingthat because you made me think of like yeahPatty Lopone for so much of this has just been being like an allstar support, you know, like being, making sure to be just enough to punctuate, but not enoughto, like, steal every scene or something like that. But here I also really loved the her andJen back and forth. Yeah. The, like, you know, accepting, embracing of the coven for both of them.And the coven as being something less immediately now these people even and just, like, all
21:44of us who donned this mantle of witchcraft and, you know, divining the elements and the, you know,all that stuff so cool i got out yep oh guys i got it all along did you think of this episode leave usyour thoughts down below is your favorite of the season so far what do you want from the finalelet's hear it and we'll catch you next week keep on the road people you bonky bill