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Wanda stays home and gets a knock on her door from her classic Sitcom Neighbor, Kathryn Hahn’s ostentatiously arch Agnes, who has come to welcome Wanda to the neighborhood. They each bluff to the other that they’re totally aware of what the occasion is and go about their days. They seem genuinely, unsettlingly puzzled by this lacuna. Their kitchen calendar has a hand-drawn heart on the day they’re beginning, but neither can remember what it means. The pair quickly run into classic Sitcom Problems with strange twists. Wanda, in turn, has to hide her magical abilities while still exploiting them in a pinch, Bewitched-style. That said, everyone calls him Vision, which is not the most common of names for a human being.
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There, they engage in intentionally stiff repartee, such as when Wanda accidentally levitates a dish into Vision’s cybernetic skull, prompting him to lovingly remark, in Paul Bettany’s best English lilt, “My wife and her flying saucers!” Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) replies, “My husband and his indestructible head!” As that line implies, the conceit of this ’50s pastiche is that Vision is indeed a robot and has to hide that from the rest of the world, which believes him to be an average Joe thanks to his ability to mask his robotic visage with ordinary-looking skin (no doubt a boon for Bettany’s free time outside the makeup chair).
We find ourselves in the home of Wanda and Vision, shot in a classic sitcom three-camera soundstage setup. The show is called - naturally - WandaVision. The credits of this show-within-a-show depict Wanda and Vision as newlyweds who have just moved into a new suburban home.
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Suddenly, we’re watching a screen turn on and what appears to be a TV show from the 1950s in the mold of I Love Lucy and its ilk, complete with a 4:3 aspect ratio and a cheery theme ditty about MCU C-listers Wanda Maximoff (better known in comics as the Scarlet Witch, though, for byzantine rights reasons, she hasn’t been called that in the movies) and the robot Vision (not English in the comics, so terribly English in the movies). We begin, naturally, with the world-famous Marvel Studios intro animation, the one with the montage of images of the various MCU characters, but as the familiar fanfare reaches its conclusion, the logo’s font changes, the picture desaturates into monochrome, and the music starts to sound tinny, distant, antique. With all of that said, let’s get on with the show. I won’t be using these recaps to blithely trash a brand that means so much to so many people, but be forewarned that there will be no stanning here. I’m about to publish a biography of Marvel’s most famous figure, Stan Lee, and the research for it shook my little geek heart to its core. I’m 35 now, and in the past decade, I’ve written hundreds of pieces for Vulture about the superhero industry, first as a staffer and now as a freelancer. I’ve been consuming Marvel stories - in comics, film, television, animation, games, podcasts, what have you - since I was in first grade. It’s entertaining and intriguing enough, but why are we watching? Is it mere escapism and familiarity? Or does the MCU have something substantive to say in 2021?Īs this is only the premiere episode, that remains to be seen, but before we go any further, please allow me to introduce myself: My name is Abraham Riesman, and I’m a recovering Marvelholic. Now with WandaVision, the drought finally ends. Fans clamored for a streaming release of Black Widow to no avail. Instead, that godforsaken year was the first in many with no releases of MCU narrative content (well, other than Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which hasn’t really counted in the shared universe since its first season). Suffice it to say that the MCU’s hiatus was absolutely not supposed to be this long multiple movies and shows had been planned for 2020. But a lot - too much - has happened in the intervening period, most of it far too horrifying and well known to bother recounting in a recap of a streaming series. It’s been a year and a half since the release of the last MCU story, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and it’s not as though everything was going swimmingly back then, either. But such mysteries are dwarfed by one urgent, overarching, implicit query: What is the place of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a world that seems to be falling apart?
Yes, sure, we all want to know about the nature of the show’s reality, what all the Easter eggs add up to, who the mysterious supporting cast really is, and so on.
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The first episode of the Disney+ series WandaVision raises a lot of questions, most of them trivial in the grand scheme of life. Don’t have Disney+ yet? You can sign up here.
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