Mallory Rubin

And particularly like when Nick Cage just went nuts.

in episode seven and eight uh i that was when i was having the best time and laughing the most and i was like in the beginning of the season having a good time and enjoying it but not laughing at the oddity and specificity of the performance as much as i had anticipated um and so when some more of those like deliberate affectations started to surface i was just like i feel like i am watching the show that i thought i was going to be watching the whole time so i really enjoyed it i had a good time i think what you guys said about what you were saying about just the

and the flow over the season and like that's I agree Jason with the observation that simultaneously there was like a lot going on in terms of moving pieces and parts but then you have a little bit of this like ubiquity of all of the fights are going to end up being on like a street you know in the old timey city and like just the I think the silver main part of it

was a touch less interesting to me than some of the other strands of the story.

So when it all kind of like oriented around that at the end, even though I liked those episodes quite a bit, it felt a little small.

I think some of it also is just the kind of 2026, we are all watching comic book adaptations for the millionth time.

And like the, you know, you are like, okay, we're, we've been talking about Tombstone coming in a movie this summer and here's Tombstone, Sandman again, et cetera.

But that's just part of it.

Yeah.

I had a hard time with him in his first couple episodes when he started to, like, be more fully incorporated into the main plot.

I was like, oh, we're sticking with this guy?

But I kind of loved it by the end, actually.

Because, I don't know, there was just something so amusing about him.

Like, the goodnight sweet prince Hamlet quote at the end.

Yeah.

But it's like amusing because he's a dipshit who thinks he's like, you know, finally got the literal lights all around him.

I mean, I get the joke.

I thought it was amusing and I like that he actually said to the other, to like, to Flint, why are we listening to this guy?

Which felt like actually a necessary story beat for one of the guys with powers to say, like, why?

Particularly so in the, what did they call it?