How This Week’s ‘WandaVision’ Cameo Changed the MCU Forever
This week’s
WandaVision is titled “On a Very Special Episode.” and while it and every
Wandavision episode title is a reference to old TV lingo (last week was “We Interrupt This Program”), that was also quite accurate. Most of the episode continued the show’s parallel storylines; Wanda carrying on her phony sitcom life inside the town of Westview, Monica Rambeau and the agents of S.W.O.R.D. investigating the “anomaly” from outside the energy barrier protecting it from the rest of the world.
Then that cameo arrived. Just as Vision (Paul Bettany) made sense of the wrongness of his life with Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and their two magical children, there was a knock on their front door. Wanda opens it in and is dumbstruck to see her long-lost (technically long-dead) brother Pietro standing at her door.
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SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for the first five episodes of “WandaVision.”
If “WandaVision” had dropped its entire season all at once instead of teasing its mystery out over weeks of storytelling, what would we make of it?
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I asked myself this question a lot while watching the first three episodes I initially had to review, and then even more once the fourth episode (“We Interrupt This Program”) dropped. After three episodes of sitcom parodies laced with creeping unease, “We Interrupt This Program” left behind Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) in order to connect the series back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe from whence it came. Friendly neighbor “Geraldine” was revealed to be Monica Rambeau (Teyon
WandaVision: Why Sitcoms?
In the most recent episode of Marvel s
WandaVision, We Interrupt This Program , Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) returns to the MCU, coming to Westview to try to figure out what exactly is going on with the town, with Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen), with the whole situation. As you might guess, he has a lot of questions and those are questions that viewers have, too. Among those questions is one that is of particular interest given the structure of the world Wanda has apparently created and the overall structure of the show itself: why sitcoms? It s a question for fans since the very first episode and the answer may come down to what the sitcom format does as well as Wanda s dealing with both trauma and grief.
Something weird is going on in Westview. As we saw in the latest episode of WandaVision, Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) has tracked someone there because he s supposed to catch up with them due to the Witness Protection Program. When he arrived on site, however.well you saw what unfolded after. [.]
WandaVision May Have Teased Classic Cosmic Storyline
We re officially four episodes into
WandaVision, and the genre-bending series has already brought some profound new additions to the canon of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As more and more characters have been brought into the show s orbit, there have been some eclectic connections to Marvel Comics canon, and that was definitely the case for the series most recent episode, We Interrupt This Program. While filling in the gaps of Monica Rambeau s (Teyonah Parris) story since the 1990s,
WandaVision might have laid the groundwork for one of the most emotional Captain Marvel stories in the comics.