Wandavision: What Happened?
Wandavision has wrapped and left me with a lot of mixed feelings. I will say that I generally enjoy the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It of course has its ups and downs, which is unavoidable with something so large, but on the whole I look forward to their output. What gets under my skin about Wandavision is that it toes the line between the broadly fun middle of the pack MCU and its few great standouts, and in the end it just couldn’t break away to the top no matter how well it was set up. First of all, the good: no property from the MCU has been as interested in a character’s interiority as Wandavision . The sitcom recreations gently humming along in full denial or warping and cracking as problems crop up directly reflect Wanda’s own grief. The show within the show is a loving recreation/expansion of a historic long running media giant inside the MCU, a loving recreation/expansion of a histori...