WandaVision: First Two Episodes Review

By: Ashleigh Green

The new Marvel TV show, “WandaVision”, aired on Disney+ last week with the third episode coming out Friday night but there’s already a lot to break down. Which also means that there will be spoilers!

The show itself is using older classics as inspiration and making remakes of the intros, each one different for each episode. Starting out with a more fifties or early sixties TV show format with the black and white film and jump cut graphics.

The first episode didn’t have much plot to it, an introduction on the life Wanda and Vision live in this new world. It introduces another character in the show, Agnes, who’s the superhero couple’s nosy neighbor. She helps out Wanda plan her anniversary dinner, which Vision double booked by having his boss and wife come over for dinner.

Later on in the episode, the wife of the boss starts asking questions about them that should be something to easily answer. But, as Wanda goes to reply, both her and Vision realize they don’t have an answer to the questions. There’s an eerie silence between the table before everything seems to straighten out and the episode ends with them setting that day as their anniversary.

Though at the end of the episode you get your first hint that this world isn’t reality. You get to see someone watching the episode unfold with you, but they’re pushing the buttons in a colorful world.

The next episode has the answers to the questions the two were asked along with a new intro that even has a theme song. The plot of this episode followed Wanda and Vision who were trying to fit in with the rest of the neighborhood.

The first change you notice, within the intro too, is that the town now has a name to it: Westview. The next difference between the two is that their house has changed from the previous episode along with having multiple locations now and different camera angles.

Wanda goes out to meet Agnes so they both could go to the neighborhood-get-together with the woman on the street. On her way out of her house she sees a red toy helicopter, which stands out against the monochromatic colors of the rest of the world.

Later on, she meets Geraldine, another resident on the street, who is also Monica Rambeau. The two are chatting while Dottie, the leader on the whole talent show fundraiser, interrupts them so she can talk.

Wanda then is asked to stay after to clean up the party with Dottie and as they are talking, Wanda breaks the glass in her hand and the red blood is once again standing out against the black and white landscape.

And if things couldn’t get weirder, Wanda hears a voice trying to reach out to her through the radio as this is happening. But then everything goes back to normal and she leaves to go to the talent show to perform her act with Vision.

After the performance, the two head home to discuss what happened during the day. As they do so, Vision and her talk about having kids and suddenly Wanda becomes pregnant! Literally, she turns around and now she’s pregnant. But right after that, everything goes wrong.

A loud noise is heard outside of the house and they go to investigate it. Once outside, in the middle of the street is a sewer lid, where the noise is coming from. The lid pops off and out comes a swarm of bees and a beekeeper that looks directly at Wanda.

Wanda, in disbelief at what she’s seeing, rewinds the scene and has the world around them go back to when her and Vision were celebrating her pregnancy. After she does that, the world around them fades from a black and white world to the colorful one to the end of the episode.

The show uses these subtle changes to show how the world around Wanda and vision isn’t what we’re used to seeing. Marvel is known for their action and storytelling abilities and this one only shows off one of those traits currently.

Because of that expectation, some viewers didn’t enjoy what they had seen so far from the show. But other viewers are more engaged, eagerly looking for the next change in the next episode and curiously wondering what’s going to happen next.

“WandaVision” is a unique way of moving the MCU forward into its next phase after the devastating end of “Avengers: Endgame'' and the hopeful one of “Spider-Man: Far From Home”. It’s also going to be the building blocks for the sequel Doctor Strange film, “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” coming out in 2022 and will also set up the plot of the third Spider-Man film coming out this December.

There’s more than what meets the eye to “WandaVision” and fans will soon realize that the town of Westview isn’t what it seems.