WandaVision: TV’s Most Recent Game Changer

Jaelynn Wagner, Photo Editor

*SPOILERS*

Disney+ released a new show called WandaVision (which takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019)), which is about Wanda and Vision who are super-powered beings, living the suburban life, who begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.

My favorite thing about this show is that each episode relates to the famous sitcoms of a certain decade. Episodes one and two take place in the 1950s and 1960s with I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Bewitched being the inspirations. Episode three takes place in the 1970s with the Brady Bunch, and so on. I also liked how each episode has clues and connections; for instance, one of the clues at the end of episode one was when both Wanda and Vision had dinners with Vision’s boss and his wife. When they were eating, the boss was joking around and started to choke, on the other hand, while his wife was laughing and saying “stop it” over and over, but then she started to look scared and sounded like she was begging him to stop pretending to choke.

My least favorite thing about this show is that if you didn’t watch any of the Marvel movies then you won’t understand what’s going on. There were certain scenes that were confusing. I was confused about why Wanda holds hundreds of people hostage in a small town and doesn’t let Vision know and why vision turned into a corpse in episode six. The other part that I was confused about was why the character, Agnes, appeared in every episode.

Ultimately, the show provides viewers with the excitement of the Marvel series and the nostalgia of the sitcoms of yesteryear, with engaging and dramatic scenes. I would enthusiastically recommend it to anyone who is a Marvel fan.