With his marriage ending, M.O.D.O.K. turns to one of genre’s most hackneyed plot devices to try to win back Jodie’s heart, with predictably chaotic results.

Remember Third Eye Blind? Well the showrunners of M.O.D.O.K. certainly do, and they’re here to make the most of that fact with an episode centred around the point every genre series seems to get to eventually – time travel.

Being M.O.D.O.K. of course, none of this can be taken remotely seriously. Our emotionally stunted antihero can’t accept that his marriage is over, but a random bit of reminiscing by Jodie over an old CD about a concert they somehow missed in the dim and distant past of seventeen years ago gives him an idea. Steal back ‘his’ time travel tech from S.H.I.E.L.D. and take Jodie to that concert in the past to mend their relationship.

While he’s prepping this plan, he also adds another item to the list of things to do in the past after another run in with new boss Austin, and so the scene is set for time-travelling hi-jinks of the kind only a show this disinterested in taking itself seriously could manage.

But then, somewhere between an encounter with his younger self, a revenge plot gone wrong and a Third Eye Blind concert, the thing actually shows an unexpected flash of heart. M.O.D.O.K. may be a dysfunctional asshole and evil genius, but he also cares about his family, however oddly he tends to show it. And Jodie isn’t still with him after all these years by accident either.

But just to keep on theme, the moments of genuine heart aren’t allowed too much room to breathe before the anarchic sensibilities of the show kick back in and we are back to foul language, crass jokes and puerile humour. And I have to say, that’s the way I like it!

Verdict: An episode with layers, though many of them silly. 9/10

Greg D. Smith