What remains entirely unclear is why everything is like a sitcom. Episode writer (and overall showrunner) Jac Schaeffer and series director Matt Shakman understand the DNA of these kinds of shows down to every detail, and also how to satirize them, starting with Wanda’s hilarious absurd breakfast menu of “silver dollar pancakes, crispy hash browns, bacon, eggs, freshly squeezed orange juice and black coffee.” There are several mysteries in this first episode, in fact, so let’s just get to all the burning questions from the premiere:įrom the sets and costumes to the canned laugh-track and the square aspect ratio, this episode of “WandaVision” looks and feels like a classic 1950s sitcom. Which makes Vision’s totally unexplained resurrection in “WandaVision” so mysterious. And I mean, killed dead, not turned to ash with a snap in “Infinity War” only to be brought back into existence five years later by another snap in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” As far as we know, Vision is gone, done, finito the last we see of Wanda in “Endgame,” she’s still grieving. Listen, all you really need to know is that between their appearances in “Age of Ultron,” and 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War,” Wanda and Vision fell in love, and in 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” Vision was tragically killed by Thanos when he ripped the Mind Stone out of Vision’s head. ![]() So here’s my attempt to help: Wanda and Vision made their formal debuts in 2015’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” Wanda as an orphan from the fictional east European nation of Sokovia whose considerable telekinetic abilities were forged in secret Hydra experiments with the powerful Mind Infinity Stone and Vision as a synthetic humanoid synthesis of the artificial intelligences called Ultron and Jarvis whose powers, including flight and passing through solid matter, are aided by the same Mind Infinity Stone. Scarlet Witch) and Vision, then heaven help you, because this show does nothing to bring newbies up to speed. If you are unfamiliar with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and especially the tragic romance of Wanda (a.k.a. Before the show even starts, in fact, the familiar Marvel Studios logo undergoes a Nick-at-Nite conversion, shifting from its usual kaleidoscope of images from Marvel’s movies accompanied by Michael Giacchino’s booming fanfare to a fuzzy black-and-white logo played over tinny music unspooling in mono.įrom there, we’re greeted to an opening credits sequence right out of “Leave it to Beaver” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (written by “Frozen” songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez) in which newlyweds Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany’s Vision drive into a new neighborhood to start a quiet life of suburban wedded bliss. It feels somehow fitting that “WandaVision,” the first show in Marvel Studios‘ grand new adventure into television, opens so thoroughly steeped in the earliest tropes of American TV. ![]() ![]() SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the series premiere of Disney Plus‘ “ WandaVision.”
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