Ms Marvel: Time and Again

 "It was me!"

This episode is wonderful, timey-wimey and cathartic in equal measure. About half of the episode is told in flashback, from the perspective of the young Aisha, as she meets and falls in love with the kind and decent Hasan, becomes a mother and has a happy life... but is visited and threatened by Najma on the eve of Partition. This all makes sense, and is told well, explaining the history of Indian independence to a potentially unfamiliar audience without dumbing down.

And then Kamala and the timey-wimeyness happens. It's all extremely clever. Yes, the Djinn are defeated perhaps implausible easy. But it's lovely that Kamala's mum, whom I'm starting to really like, sees and accepts the whole truth and grows closer to both her mother and her daughter in the process. No more frustrating misunderstandings, yay!

The Djinn are gone. But Kamran is with Bruno, and Damage Control have arrived for the finale. This is excellent stuff.

Ms Marvel: Seeing Red

 "Kamala, please don't be weird!"

To Pakistan, then, and it's not just Kamala who gets a wonerful tour of the beautiful-looking Karachi. The city looks glorious, and it's a nice little introduction to Pakistan and broader desi cultural mores, especially for the large American audience.

Kamala gets more than that, though, as she's introduced to the rather cool Red Daggersa, who give her friendship and exposition in equal measure, explaing exactly how dangerous the Djinn are. The Djinn who are at this moment escaping from Damage Control's supermax prison; I'm getting a very Guantanamo Bay feel from all this, as well as outrage as poor Kamran being vindictively left behind.

Meanwhile we also get to know Kamala's wise Nani, and get to see bits of all three generations of mothers are daughters. We see how Muneeba is perhaps angry about her mother's "stories" because she felt neglected. This is a nice human touch.

The confrontation between the Djinn and Red Daggers, plus Kamala, is expected, and the car chase is cool. Less expected is Kamala seeming to travel back in time to 1947. This episode builds and develops on so much, yet the world keeps expanding. Hugely enjoyable telly.