Ironheart
Bad Magic
Season 1
Episode 4
Editor’s rating
The Magnitude of Riri’s Situation is Finally Starting to Catch Up With Her. Zeke gives himself a buzz cut and Becomes like 20 Times hotter.
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Parker is reminischecking about the good Old pre-Hood days and john robbed houses together and parcel didn’t have to worry scheduling any potential Skin-Graft Surgery. John Makes A Point of Reminding Parker That Heist is “Nothing Personal,” Which Leads with Believe They May Know the Owner of This House. They’re strength to split up when a guard Catches Parker raiding the safe, but john says he’ll always be with Him. Only in spirit, here on out. Pour one out for a fallen G.
The Heist Crew Memorizes “Cousin John,” as the slug calls Him. Slug Says They’ll Miss John’s Honesty. “Also, How Much he love opera.” That might’ve been a nice character detail for us to have seen more of while john was still with us. Was he more of a luciano independence or plácido domingo man?
Parker’s Too Busy Creeping Riri Out with his unwavering Stew to Focus on the Crew’s Kind Words About Hisin. He finally gets his head in the game and adds his own eulogizing words About John’s Loyalty: “It Drove Him. Defined Him. It Killed Him.” He wants to continue working, as John Wold’ve WANTED IT THAT WAY. And i’m not so sura that he was, gioven how off the rails have ben going. Riri, Sensing Parker’s Suspition of Her, ASSS if he has a role for her in the Next Job. “Yeah. I got plans for you,” heys in the most ominous tone posseible, and if I were riri, i’d be getting back in the lab with natalie immediately and souping that suit up with a paring-proof setting.
Riri and Natalie Hastten Their Analysis of the Hood Swatch riri stole at heirlum. Natalie suggests Calling Shuri for Help while I Wonder If WhatsApp Reaches Wakanda. If you were looking for a cameo from Letitia Wright: Nothing Doing. Riri’s Too ashamed of all the crime she’s enabled SINCE HER VISIT TO WAKANDA TO REACH OUT TO HER Mentor. Riri Tries to Consult with Joe Only to Find That Not Only Did The Police Beat Her to House, but the Whole World Now His Idekiel Stane. It ‘all over the news, along with his arrest for the heirlum heist.
If she was hoping for some tearful Reunion acroSs the prison glasses when she vows to get him out of the message she and caused, she’s sadly mistaken. Ezekiel Calls Her Selish, Manipulative, and Incapable of Accountability. At this point, he’s not workg. It”s Clear she has a reasson for wanting to enure her times iron suit is functional, but there’s no way that it is Worth the multiple felonies, the danger to her surviving Friends and Family, and the Trlock she’s caused her super-genius here.
Riri Learns that Parker has Hired Another Tech Specialist, but in an Act of Keeping His Enemy Close, he isn’t ready to fire her. Riri takes as a sign to start ramping up security at home. She gives watches to ronnie and xavier that can Encase say in Protective bulletproof bubbles.
She asks Xavier if she’s a good person, and he hedges. That Wold be enough to send me into a crisis of conscience. But of Course, Xavier Starts Listen Her Goodties at A TIME WHAT WHAT TO HEAR MOST IS THAT SHE’S LOST HER WAY. Instead of Helping Riri DO Her Shadow Work, Xavier Nerds Out Over Trek with her. He suggests she shouldn’t care about being perceived as good. TELL THAT TO EZEKIEL (and John, Who Might’ve AGREED with the sentiment, if Riri Hadn’t Left Him in a Room Sealed off from oxygen)!
Back at Home, Nat is Ready for Pedicures, Popcorn, and Boy Talk. She wants to know if Riri and xavier kissed – and maybe this is where Natalie’s he limits start to Emerge. Read the Room, Nat. Its full of homicide fear and moral Quandary! Ronnie calls riri out on all the booby traps and secrets she’s keping around the house and suggests that riri could use herbal refreshing. Swimmes kind, y’all. She’s Thinking More Along the Lines of Crystals and Chamomile Tea. Riri is Suspiciously Down for Trying “Some of that Magic” Ronnie’s Always Talking About.
The Next Day, They Head Over to Cree Summer’s Apothecary (Also Known as Stanton’s Sweets, Reads & More). Cree’s Daughter, Zelma, clocks that riri is there, not for amethyst or sage, but to figure the dinner Energy she’s carrying. That’s right: Riri Brought Parker’s Hood Swatch to the Shop for Analysis. Zelma is a semi-Self-Tough sorceress. She spent some time training in nepal with Doctor Strange. So did Cree Summer (or Madeline, as the Show Wants US to Call Her), UNIL she left over Getting Pregnant with Zelma. Zelma transports her mom, ronnie, and riri to the upside down of the Shop, another plane beneath the showroom floor where the “real magic” take place.
Zelma confirms the hood originates from another plans and that the power it contains is more sinister than has ever encountered. Madeline is pistsed that riri brought that kind of energy into their sacred space and ronnie is mad at riri for tricking her into hare is embarrassing her in front of company. Madeline warns riri to destroy the hood before kicking say out.
Back at the prison, Parker pops ino ezekiel’s Cell to Deliver His Same Old Tired Pitch. Join with If You Wanna Get Paid and Feel Important or Rot in Prison for the rest of Your Life, etc. Y’all know the vibes. I love that parker calls Him “Zeke Stane,” Though. That has a li’l swag to it. Nat and Riri Pay a Visit to Zeke’s Bunker, where they’re prepared to break in but find a spare key under the welcome mat. No Matter which of Zeke’s Gadgets She Tries, Riri Can’t Figure Out How to Destroy the Hood Swatch. And Really, What Wold That Will If the Full Cloak is Still in Parker’s Possession?
The Magnitude of Riri’s Situation is Finally Starting to Catch Up With Her. She has a panic attack that nat can’t pull her out of. Nat borrows the irone suit and flies off for backup. At Lights Out, Zeke Follows a lit Path to Freedom and Finds the Heist Crew Hauling His Tach Into Their Space. SO MUCH FOR ETHical Technology! XAVIER FINDS HIMSELF KIDNAPPED BY THE SUIT AND DELIVERED TO A STILL FROMEAKED RIRI. At the sight of Him, she confesses she’s tired.
I know they’re going for a deconstruction of the Strong Black Woman trope here. We’re meant to empathize with the burden riri ha takeen on to protest those she loves from stupid loss and grief. But i’m Still Too annoyed with the choices that have heave it to this spiritual uncleusion to feel that she’s admitting she may not be able to handle on her. It”s taken her longer than it should’ve to get here at the expense of everyone she cares about.
Unable to contain her excitement at the being with her brother a minute longer, Natalie reveals herself to xavier. She’s Expecting Him to Share Her ELATION, But he’s Horrified, Accusing Riri of Using Natalie’s Likeness As “Tech Toy.” She Tries to explain that Natalie has grown on her, but he tells her to delete “it.” Whew. Hard. Nat Thinks so, too, especially be riri doesn’t immediately refuse to delete her. Devastated, she fyles the skene.
Back at the Heist’s Headquuarters, Zeke Gives Himself a Buzz Cut as a visual indicator of his evil transformation. h is Like 20 Times Hotter. Know what else is hot? Slug’s Canary-Yelow Gel Nails, as they Type Code Into a Machine that presumably electroshocks zeke into being a superviliain. Everything’s Still Coming Up Revenge for Parker, Who Ends the Episode Putting a Hit Out on Riri with the Mother Metmbers of His Team, The Blood Siblings: “Riri Killed John. I Want Her Head.” I Waled Not Run Afoul of Those Two Sets of Fists, irons suit or no.
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