Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn
Creator: Jac Schaeffer
Released: 2021
Genre: Action/Comedy/Drama/Fantasy
Streamed: 6.5 Million
If you’re a marvel fan, there’s no way you haven’t seen, or at least heard of Wandavision. Spoiler warning now, I’m going to try my best to say as much as I can and spoil as little as I can but just to be on the safe side make sure you’ve watched all nine episodes before you continue on with this review.
We follow Wanda and Vision, in their life as a newly married couple living in a small town, trying to lead a normal life and pretend they are normal people. This sounds all well and good until you remember the fact that Vision was killed by Thanos in Infinity War and all of the episodes are set as sitcoms in different decades. Starting in the fifties, leading all the way up to the present.
Straight from the get go, we’re unsure of what we’re going to get, considering it seems as though they are this perfect married couple living the ideal domesticated life in the 50s. This continues through the episode have the common theme of some mundane disaster and the chaos that ensues to fix it (with the added necessity of needing to hide their powers from the residents).
As the episodes progress on so does their lives and the decades however more and more things seem to go wrong or fall apart, with small things that seem out of place or are odd even for Westview make us question what exactly is going on and who is causing it.
Now I know I gave a spoiler warning before but I’m really away to spill the details to as said before read at your own risk.
One of the biggest surprises in the series is the introduction of Quicksilver, however as he was killed off in Age of Ultron it is Evan Peter’ version from the X-Men franchise. As soon as he appears Darcy states that she recast Pietro so it is not just a continuity thing and it is something all of the characters are aware of. Speaking off I think the way he ended up just being some random resident from Westview was a waste and there was so much more potential with his character.
I’m the first to admit Vision wasn’t one of my favourite characters by any means, but this show has really made his character grow on me and I was genuinely gutted by the ending when he disappeared before Wanda, (Also making all the more heartbreaking that every time Wanda gets a bit of happiness it is ripped away from her).
Another one of the great plot twist was the Agnes was actually Agatha and she had been controlling pretty much everything. The episode where she take Wanda through all of her memories (really the more traumatic ones which is a shame) shows how much she’s been acting and how manipulative and powerful she is.
One last thing I want to mention without giving everything away is the songs that have been composed for the show and how they’ll stick in your head for the rest of the day.
I’m assuming if you’ve read this far you’ve finished the series so let me know what you think and what your favourite part was. Thanks for reading!
Cinema & Chapters by Peggy 