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This possibility has always loomed large overMs.
Time and Again strikes with an immediate specificity and a sense of history boiling over into the present.
Before long, their withheld glances bloom.
She even wears a rose in her hair.
Playing Najma, Nimra Bucha captures a dangerous unpredictability, whipping subtly between imposing and loving.
The episodes real and fantasy narratives become perfectly mirrored in this moment.
(Marvel, after all, is known to produce its pre-visualized action elementsin-house.)
Even once the bombast is dispensed with, the episodes lulls remain palpable and awkward.
The missteps only pile up from there.
Its an oddity for a show otherwise so well put together.
Our girls come a long way.
