Marvels MCU WandaVision is a must see

If Disney Plus’s Mandalorian didn’t get you to download the App, then MCU’s WandaVision is the one that should definitely pique your interest. If you’re a Marvel fan, movie and/or comics, and have already seen the movies then you already know who Wanda Maximoff and one of my favorite hero’s, Vision is. If you have never seen the movies, then I definitely recommend watching some Avengers movies before WandaVision because (spoiler alert) it’s about our Scarlet Witch’s activities after the latest Avenger: Endgame movie.

As we all know from Avengers: Infinity War, Vision is killed due to the Infinity Stone being his life source. Thano’s having his whole plan to snap his fingers to rid the world of 50% of the population for poverty control is a whole thing he planned for a while, and searched so long to wield; so obviously sorry Vision, your time had come. I think the worst though was Vision had to die twice, once by Wanda Maximoff herself, and then Thano’s, which I cried from then on, but anyways, it was a hard watch. Thano’s snapes his fingers, and then Wanda, along with 49.99% of the world go poof, and are gone.

So now we go into Avengers: End Game, which is obviously exactly how it sounds. Where the end is going to come even more epic than the last, because the super heroes are also ridiculously smart and can figure out time travel in the matter of weeks to save the world. So, they time travel to different times they knew where the infinity stones are and they snap everyone back from, now, five years prior. Thano’s shows up from the past, after he kidnaps his daughter from the future and Wanda is brought back (along with the other 49.99%) and is, rightfully so, pissed off. Wanda gets a little battle scene with Thano’s before the movie continues on (if you don’t know yet, Iron Man dies).

Now let’s talk about Wandavision. WandaVision was one of those shows that I didn’t know I needed until Disney Plus aired it on January 15th, 2021. With the first Episode starting in the life of a young married couple, set as a 1950’s sitcom, to the finale (that I think was more set-in present day) that just aired today, on March 5th, 2021.

The first episode, starts off with Wanda and Vision in their living room. Filmed in black and white, and like any good old TV show back then, claims that they’re being filmed in front of a live audience. Wanda and Vision just moved in to the neighborhood and Vision is getting ready to go to work, they see a heart marked on the calendar for that day and both can’t seem to remember what that day was supposed to be (though they pretended to). Why was that day so special?

Vision goes to work and Wanda stays home when the classic nosey neighbor, Agnes comes over, introducing herself and noticing the heart on the calendar. Agnes ask’s Wanda what it meant and as she’s throwing out suggestions and lands on anniversary. Wanda agrees, to that being the special occasion, while Vision is at work and his boss Mr. Hart comes up to him saying how much he’s looking forward to dinner.

The classic 1950’s comedy continues throughout the dinner when Mr. Hart begins to choke. Mr. Harts wife is laughing as though it’s a joke, even while Mr. Hart collapses on the floor. Wanda then say’s “help him Vision”, as everyone is just sitting there watching this man die to which Vision gets up and removes the item immediately from Mr. Harts throat.

The second episode continues in black and white, and while Vision and Wanda try to conceal their powers (Think of ‘I dream of Genie’, mixed with ‘Bewitched’). Wanda goes to a town meeting hosted by the “Town snob”, if you will, where she meets Geraldine. The conversation seems a little odd and out of place. When Wanda asks for Geraldine’s name, she hesitates. Then, after the meeting, she is talking with the town snob (AKA Dotty) and their interaction is also bizarre. While Wanda is in the middle of the conversation with Dotty, and Dotty accusing Wanda of not having the towns best interest, you hear a voice come in on the radio sitting on the table next to them. Then a glass shatters, and you see almost like a rewind. They almost go back in time, and the conversation starts again just before it got strange, and continues on as if the weirdness, never happened.

So now, you start to think, ok I see what’s happening here. Someone has Wanda in some sort of alternate reality and Geraldine is going to be some bad guy, there to spy on her. Wanda gets home, and as her and vision are in a conversation, she out of no where becomes pregnant. Right as she does, there’s a commotion outside. They run out and you see a creepy looking human thing come out of the sewers. Wanda just says, no. The scene rewinds, and cuts back to where the conversation left off before the commotion outside with a better dialogue outcome.

We continue to episode three where we are now in color! Wanda’s pregnancy is progressing fast and in a few shorts days she’s ready to pop. I think this is where the episode becomes colored, because one we are now in the 70’s and two I think Wanda is starting to become happier in the alternate realty. Vision is out at work, and Geraldine stops by to talk when all of a sudden Wanda is in labor. Geraldine help deliver the baby, and Vision makes it just after the birth. Or so you think, because another one pops out and Wanda gives birth to twins.

Vision steps out and Geraldine is admiring the babies. She starts talking to Wanda and in the midst of their conversation Geraldine mentions Pietro and how Ultron killed him. Wanda doesn’t like this very much and casts her out, literally. Geraldine flied through the air, is thrown through an electrical force field barrier and this is when you find out, everything you thought was happening wasn’t actually happening and nothing is what it seemed.

The fourth episode opens up to us seeing everyone that had disappeared after the snapping, reappear. Monica Rambeau, awakes in a chair by an empty hospital bed where her mother had just been. She runs frantically through the hospital until she finds doctor she recognizes and breaks the news to her; she had been gone for five years and her mother passed away within that time. As Monica starts getting back into the swing of things and going to her old job, she is sent to deal with some suspicious activity on the outskirts of Westview. There she gets sucked in to the forcefield like thing and becomes Geraldine.

Though we have noticed some strange behavior, in the episode following, Vision starts to get suspect that his neighbors don’t really act normal. That conversations people have around them aren’t normal an that somethings not right in Westview. He confronts Wanda and then this is where it all seems to start to fall apart. Vision starts taking people out of their mind trances and decides he must do something about Wanda having control over the whole town. Oh yeah, also she recasts Pietro. So there is that.

In episode six, Vision now knows something still is off with the town. He and Wanda are not on the best of terms and Vision decides to go explore and see what he can figure out. As Wanda is out with the kids for Halloween, with a fake revived Pietro, Vision is trying to figure out what exactly is going on in Westview and how to save them from the only woman he has ever loved. He runs into Agnes, who, when he turns her mind cloak off from Wanda, she tells him how miserable she is being under Wanda’s mind control. Vision finds the electric wall of power (AKA the hex) and pushes through to the other side. He then starts telling S.W.O.R.D that they need to help the people of Westview and save them as he starts deteriorating and dying. Wanda finds out Vision is on the other side of her magic and decides to push her magic further out, to bring Vision back in. In doing so, she basically swallows up the whole S.W.O.R.D unit except for Monica, the guy Randall Park plays and Director Tyler Hayward.

During Episode seven, Wanda wakes up from having just pushed her forcefield out further in order to save her husband, to her two ten-year-old boys. When all she wants is peace and quiet Agnes comes over and offers to watch the kids so Wanda can take a “me” day. Now the show turns more into something of a Modern Family film take and they’re all taking turns talking to the reality show interviewer.

While Wanda is dealing with the chaos of the prior nights events Vision, who was put back together once the forcefield swallowed him up again, continues to walk to find the new edge of the Hex. When he had broken out of it the night before, Darcey Lewis had tried to help him before the Hex came over her and her memory became clouded from Wanda’s wrath. Vision gives her regain of her brain and the two form a new alliance and try to get to Wanda before things get worse.

While all this is going on, Monica is still on the outside of the hex and wants to try to get back in, without being rewritten through the hex and becoming a puppet for Wanda to control. She gets in contact with her people and her people send their people out with a fancy car to get through the hex. It doesn’t work (shocker) to which Monica responds with running through it instead. Because she had been through the hex before it had rewritten her genetics and now, she has hex powers.

Monica finds Wanda and tries to reason with her but good ol’ Agnes comes to the rescue and shuts that down. Bringing Wanda into her home she tells her to kick back and relax. Wanda realizes her children aren’t there and Agnes suggests Wanda check the basement.

And now! It’s about to go down! You find out Agnes is actually Agatha Harkness (a witch), which in the comics it seems Agatha was actually somewhat of a healer and mentor for the Scarlett witch but MCU obviously needed a more hands-on villain. Anyways, Agatha turns out was calling the shots the entire time and is also a witch. We find out that Agatha enjoys sucking up people’s powers. Including her own mothers, until they die.

Agatha wants to know how Wanda wielded so much power, how she took over a whole town and was living in a fantasy world where Vision was still alive, and so was Pietro. So, in episode eight, we embark on a journey through Wanda’s past and how she could have possibly created the hex that has claimed so many innocent people’s brains. In this journey we get a better look into Wanda’s life. How her parents died (which ties together her love of old sitcoms and as to why her show took on that film take) how she survived the infinity stone and got her powers, to how Vision and her became more than just super hero Avengers and created a romantic bond.

The finale episode wraps it all together. Wanda defeats Agatha, Vision has to fight White Vision (which through me off and I felt was just thrown in) she lets the people of Westview go and think freely again, and most importantly she got her closure with Vision. His final line (and just when I thought I couldn’t cry ANY harder, he asks Wanda what he is, to which she explains he is a piece of her mind. Something she created from her mind, and is her sadness and also her hope. To which he responds “I have been a voice with no body, then a body but not human and now… a memory made real. Who knows what I might be next?” If that didn’t make you cry, I don’t know what else would

I loved how they put MCU’s WandaVision together. Just the right amount of misleads, drama, comedy and fighting one would expect from Marvel. Mandalorian started the first explosion of Disney plus downloads but if that didn’t catch your eye, I really hope that you all don’t just take my vague recaps of the entire season, and go watch Disney Plus “WandaVision” for yourselves. All nine episodes are available for viewing pleasure, and now if you excuse me. I have a season of WandaVision to rewatch.