![]() And this series, with it its profoundly depressing, fake picket fenced portrayal, with its canned laughter and on cue sighs, punctuating a life that isn’t real, is setting us up for an agonising confrontation with the tragedy of Wanda Maximoff’s existence. The promised “normalcy” of the family sitcom is the one thing that Wanda yearns for. Where peace, and happiness, and a perfect life is always just 24 (or so) minutes away. Where every episode feels like a fresh start. Where they win, and lose, and die, and are reborn. ![]() Is there a better metaphor for the life of a superhero than the television sitcom? These are characters whose existence are predicated quite literally on one quest after another, where every victory marks the beginning of yet another crisis, and another fight. We’ve seen these same narrative beats used in almost every sitcom (ever) across the decades. Much hijinks ensue.īosses showing up for dinner and missed anniversaries are tried and tested tropes. The comic Easter eggs look more like plot threads In WandaVision episode 2 season 1, we get a strange appearance of a man in a beekeeper suit and a commercial for Strucker watches. (No doubt named for Steve Englehart, one of the most influential comic writers to ever work on the stories of Vision and the Scarlet Witch.) Meanwhile, back at home, a miscommunication between the couple leads Wanda to believe that she is actually planning an anniversary party for her husband. Vision’s future at the ambiguously named Computational Services is dependent on whether or not he – and Wanda – can host the perfect dinner party for his boss Mr. WandaVision kicks off with a tribute to the sitcoms of the 1950s, namely The Dick Van Dyke Show and I Love Lucy, with the plot of this episode (and the next) pulling from an all too familiar sitcom setup. ![]() Wanda and Vision struggle to conceal their powers during dinner with Vision’s boss and his wife. So here we go… Season 1 | Episode 1: “Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience” That said, we do have some theories, and we thought that a series of articles explaining everything we know, and everything we think we know, might be of help in furthering your understanding of just what the hell is going on in the town of Westview. And while we loved every minute of it, we’re not going to pretend like we knew exactly what was going on in those first two episodes of WandaVision.
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