How WandaVision Made Itself the Perfect Anti-Binge Watch
In eschewing traditional streaming logic, Disney Plus is dropping its big shows weekly - and it works.
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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
February 04, 2021
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The first three episodes of WandaVision were a confusing, enjoyable, reality-bending piece of work and if it gave you more questions than it did answers about the heroes Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision, then it’s doing its job.
Thrown into the deep end of 50s, 60s and then 70s sitcoms, the first three episodes of WandaVision saw the loved-up heroes living a suburban life – happily married and attempting to assimilate into their seemingly normal community of neighbours.
It didn’t take long for strange occurrences to happen and viewers are hinted that this town of Westview may not be as simple as it seems.
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While filmmakers clearly get autonomy when working on their respective projects in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there is also a key collaborative aspect to being a part of the franchise. With all stories contributing to a larger continuity and many of them developing simultaneously, there are measures taken to ensure that concurrently developing stories donât overlap and that certain ideas can be implemented for the grand scheme. Itâs a process that has worked for Marvel Studios on the big screen for more than decade now, and itâs not something thatâs changing now that the brand is entering a new era with its Disney+ streaming series.
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. [.]