I think I've accepted that this is going to be one of those shows that isn't entirely for me, but that I still have a soft spot for and want to watch when it's released. It's offering a big amount of charm and a good sitcom-style Marvel show that I didn't know we were getting. With this episode, they're once again exploring some areas of Jen's personal life that I like, while also taking on another bad guy in a classic villain-of-the-week structure that works. This episode was better than last week's because it didn't focus on a whole lot other than its main plot.
As much as this is a legal show, it's also a classic character sitcom that focuses on Jen's life and doings. So exploring the different aspects of her personal life is a lot of fun. A few weeks ago we got introduced to her family and now we get an insight into her dating life, which could honestly be better. But it provides a very fun gateway for the episode into making some of their classic jokes and touch upon the problems of dating at a certain point in your life. That's where this episode really works. Where it doesn't is on the front of its bad guy. While I like the structure very much, I didn't find this week's bad guy to be interesting at all. The character was super annoying and Rhys Coiro who I have enjoyed in other projects felt completely miscast here. And while what he was doing fit into the system world, it felt like such a departure from the other and more interesting antagonists that they have been setting up for this show. There was nothing that actually appealed to me about this character, and I felt like he was just there to give the main character something to go up against, which is normally what a villain is, but I like them with a little more to them than just that. Other than that whole aspect, this episode was a pleasant delight and gave me the vibes that I originally fell in love with about this show.
"Is This Not Real Magic?" took the show back to focusing on Jen and her problems and had that fun vibe that I loved earlier. It had some problems with its antagonist and that whole storyline, but for the most part, I looked over that because of the good stuff that regularly went down.