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This was the best episode/era for outfits for sure.

The kids growing so quickly tells me Young Avengers is just around the corner.

I know she’s technically the villain now but the government butting into her business really started to annoy me.

When she had them aim at the fed guy I was like yaaaas smoke him.

Kathryn Hahn/Agnes is the only person in the world who matters! A Queen! (Iss there more to her??)

Lmao she really grave robbed for some wires and metal plating.

Two lines really stuck with me:

“She could have beaten Thanos if he hadn’t called a blitz,” THANK you finally someone inside the MCU says it.

“She’s never exhibited this amount of power before”, hmmmm but who has?? (Rhymes with shmeshmisto).

They’re really setting her up to be the villain now which is kind of fun because she’s GOOD at it but I’d be suprisedd if she were the one really pulling strings.

The accent really is part of her fantasy like why?? Lol.

When she stepped out of the Hex and just owned them all I was very turned on ngl.

FINALLY... SERIOUSLY?? You’d replace Kick-Ass, sexy Pietro with X-men Pietro?? Not on my watch.

I am very intrigued tho.

(Spoilers!!)

I was a latecomer to Lovecraft Country, so it’s taken me a few weeks to watch episode five on time this week but BOY have I never been so excited to finally be able to do a review for this show that is rocking my world and has me giddy in a way a show hasn’t in a while.

Firstly, last week’s Indiana Jones-esque episodes in the tombs of a museum was dope. I just needed to get that out there, but this week the show goes to new heights. Never before has the show been so mind melty, so gory, so rife with racial complexity and struggle, and this show already had all of that in spades.

This episode focuses mainly on Ruby, Letitia’s oft overlooked sister as she continues her affair with the mysterious, pale William, with one extra wrinkle. He has, without her knowing, given her the power to transform into a white woman. How isn’t immediately clear but the show does take this pretty old “body swap” trope and throttles it with it’s gruesome visuals and ideas. William, fascinated by butterflies and their transformations, literally puts a white woman’s skin over Ruby’s. Each time she has to claw and scream her way out of the white husk like the Bride clawing out of the husk of another person, meat dripping off of her like overcooked ribs, until she’s herself again.

The imagery of it does make the body swap angle fresh, as does the racial implications of a black woman swapping bodies with a white woman. In the 50’s. (Why is it the same woman as the racist farmer from episode 2?) I am not in any way qualified to talk about the experience of what it’s like to be black, or colorism so I won’t focus too much here out of respect, but it was a FASCINATING storyline. It was easy to see why she so quiclkly got swept up in the privileges, but it did NOT take long to realise, even from the inside, the racism in her world permeates everything. Her deciding to use that privilege for murder a racist sex pest in a very ironic twist… go off. Also multiple times Cardi B plays during key scenes of Ruby’s, (these is red bottoms/ these is bloody shoes), and in a show set in the 50′s i think that’s spectacular.

Another complicated story this week and one I hope we see much more of is of Tic’s dad, Montrose. Up until this point the audience has seen nothing but an abusive drunk, and that George, Tic’s uncle was more of a father figure.

But Montrose’s story is far more tragic and confusing, as it turns out he is also a gay man. That doesn’t excuse hitting your kid. Ever. But it does explain some of the anger and secrecy and adds a layer. He’s at the drag club with MFing Monet x Change and Shangela. He experiences euphoria and freedom in the arms of the queer community. The audience feels sympathy for this guy for the first time, which adds to the character, but I’m gonna need to see some healing with his son for there to be a full redemption arc. A deep conversation that leads to a better relationship.

Speaking of Tic, we don’t see much of him this episode, as he and Leti attempt to decode the codes of the cult that is haunting them, to some success, ending in a beautiful scene where they confirm their feelings for one another, and Tic shows that he hasn’t carried through his father’s cruelty and anger into his relationships, that he is a different man, and boy do we love to see it. There IS however the hint that Tic might head down a bad magical path. While his pursuit of “saving our people” by unlocking these magic mysteries every magic has a price. Leti sagely says “You’re father though he was doing good, and look what he did.” (Killed an ancient, innocent lady.