Main cast: Iman Vellani (Kamala Khan/Ms Marvel), Matt Lintz (Bruno), Yasmeen Fletcher (Nakia), Zenobia Shroff (Muneeba), Rish Shah (Kamran), Samina Ahmed (Sana), Fawad Khan (Hasan), Nimra Bucha (Najma), Mehwish Hayat (Aisha), Adaku Ononogbo (Fariha), and Aramis Knight (Red Dagger)
Director: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Time and Again continues to explore the origins of that stupid bangle, which I’m starting to detest, and… uh, why?

This is the second-to-final episode of this season of Ms. Marvel, so why are we dwelling on that thing and the past? Is that story really going to matter?

Why should I care about the flashback again? I still don’t know or care about Aisha, as she just popped out of the blue a while back. Her sari is lovely and has far more personality than her entire character, which is just sad.

Worse, all that nonsense leads to some really bizarre twists and turns, in which Najma becomes an idiot, Kamran suddenly getting powers because someone behind this show shoved elbow-deep into their rear end and found this contrivance, and some weird bizarre thing involving magical stars in the sky that show up for a few seconds to guide someone to the man she is looking for that is just a few feet away from where she is.

Don’t get me started about the final episode hinted here to be about a showdown with the bad guys that have, so far, what, 10 minutes of screen time in the entire season.

Well, it looks like the true origin story of this show is become clearer at this crucial moment of the season: it’s either up through the nose or pulled out from rear ends. Whichever one works just as well to explain the hilarious stupidity of this episode and the direction the show has taken.