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Agatha takes Wanda to therapy, and the show essentially takes its viewers to therapy, as well.

Wanda is no longer the picket fence housewife performing community magic shows. No. She’s the pajama-clad matriarch who knows her life is a mess.

Giant, poofy white hair—something those of us alive today all associate with grandmas—somehow, for nearly a dozen generations, became a symbol of male power and virility. How did this happen?

Pietro doesn’t mind if he leads Wanda back to the moral question of Westview, so long as she never acts on it. 

If Wanda really is in control, then that means she’s more powerful than we’ve ever realized.

What is the thematic consistency that binds together all the stories of the MCU?

If quicksand is really so dull, though, how did it become such a popular trope in cinema? And how did it disappear just as quickly?

This week’s WandaVision takes us back to MCU’s most iconic event: Back when Bruce Banner un-Blipped every Blipped being back to their bereaved baes.

Whatever is happening, the world as I tend to frame it is far too small; my conception of it, too limiting.

What James Herriot did as a vet—and what he does as a storyteller—he shows us the healing nature of healing nature.

WandaVision is zany and funny and nostalgic, with occasional bursts of creepiness and dread.

Wait! Conspiracies happen all the time! Why are people so down on conspiracy theories these days?

Love of country is good, but love of country must never supersede love of God, and it’s only by loving God most that we can love our country in the way we should.

Of course, as overblown as much of the Y2K panic was, the it-was-all-a-big-hoax assessment wasn’t really accurate either.

WW84 asks us to confront the truth that while we have some desires that are good, even good desires can become dangerously disordered.

The backlash against O’Reilly’s 2004 fabrication of “The War on Christmas” was as swift as his declaration of it to exist.