How ‘WandaVision’ Will Make Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo the Audience Stand-Ins
“There is definitely an element of Darcy being the one taking you through the story,” Dennings told TheWrapTim Baysinger | February 1, 2021 @ 8:45 PM
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“WandaVision” finally began to answer some of the many questions viewers have about, well, pretty much
everything going on in Westview, through the eyes of Randall Park’s FBI Agent Jimmy Woo and Kat Dennings’ Dr. Darcy Lewis. In fact, Friday’s episode saw the two asking a lot of the same questions that most fans were wondering themselves (the biggest being: why is this whole thing a sitcom?).
Image: Mike Machlan, Bill Oakley, Bob Sharen/Marvel
WandaVision’s creative team
to draw from while conceiving the story for Disney+. Because there’s been relatively little of the Scarlet Witch or Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one of the biggest questions heading into the streaming series was which chunks of the characters’ comics canon it
might incorporate, and how the show would go about it.
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Everything about the way
WandaVision’s premise was advertised from its jumps through multiple decades of American sitcoms to the not-s0-subtle hints about Wanda Maximoff’s mental state made it easy to see shades of stories like Brian Michael Bendis’
The Scarlet Witch storming away from her fellow Avengers. (Image: Mike Machlan, Bill Oakley, Bob Sharen/Marvel)
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WandaVision’s creative team
to draw from while conceiving the story for Disney+. Because there’s been relatively little of the Scarlet Witch or Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one of the biggest questions heading into the streaming series was which chunks of the characters’ comics canon it
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One of the things people crave most about Marvel’s cinematic output? Connection. Where is
this character during
this moment, how does this event connect to a hundred other narratives?
WandaVision, Marvel Studios’ first crack at bringing its movieverse to streaming television, is no exception, but it’s doing so in a way no other Marvel entry has.
Why WandaVision Doesn t Need Mephisto
WandaVision is roughly at its midpoint with its recent fourth episode, We Interrupt This Program and while the events of the episode have begun to offer major explanations for some of what is going on in the curious world of Westview, plenty of theories still abound as for who or what may be causing Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) to manipulate the world around her into a strange series of sitcom-like settings. One of the biggest theories is that the Lord of Lies himself, Mephisto, could be pulling Wanda s strings and while, with five episodes left, it s possible that the closest thing Marvel has to the devil himself will indeed prove to be the mastermind, the Disney+ series doesn t need Mephisto to tell a powerful story. In fact, the Marvel Cinematic Universe may be better served by letting