Episode 1 ‘WandaVision’ Recap and Review: Premiere Crackerjack Series

My biggest takeaway after watching the first two episodes of WandaVision on Disney + is that it ‘s a lot, a lot more fun than I expected.

Maybe that’s just because it’s my funny brand. It was built I Love Lucy, Gilligan Island, an Andy Griffith Exhibition, an Dick Van Dyke Show and MASH, this kind of sitcom comedy kicks all the right box. The fact that WandaVision is it so gosh-darned it makes it even better.

I had expected a bit of this, and the weirdness that went with it, but I didn’t expect it to work as well. It really is a crackerjack show, by golly.

In the opening program we don’t know what’s going on. Wanda Maximoff (aka Scarlett Witch) played by Elizabeth Olsen and Vision (Paul Bettany) appear in a black-and-white neighborhood and move into a house together. They sift down to the rhythm of the 50s sitcom, knocking a loving joke overflowing with a smiley face. It is desirable.

Wanda is a housewife who can cook and clean with the powers of her mind. Vision, browning the skin of Paul Bettany ‘s husband, goes to office work where they do computer work. No one there can really tell you what that means or what the company is actually doing, but Vision is a great vision there. A colleague says it’s like a human computer, a connection that Vision takes a little too literally.

The fun continues and they all lie on the signal. The program turns into a classic case of miscommunication. There is a heart on the calendar and neither Wanda nor Vision can prove why. Wanda accepts that it is their birthday after managing birthdays and holidays, and together with her new, friendly but completely friendly neighbor Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) they prepare for the romantic evening.

At work, the head of Vision, Mr. Hart (Fred Melamed) recalls that Vision hosts him and his wife, Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp from 70s Exhibition, which is appropriate) for dinner that night. The heart of the calendar was an abbreviation for Hart, not an anniversary.

When Vision shows up with his boss and the boss’s wife in tow, the whole house is set up for a romantic night out for two. Candles on the table, lights low. The same food? One straw covered with chocolate (Vision does not eat food, after all). Vision enters the kitchen to find his wife but Wanda emerges from another room and puts her hands over Mr. Hart’s eyes, mistaken for Vision.

She is dressed in a lacy movement with fur loops and a pearl necklace and is all very risqué for company. The Harts – and Vision – are horrified. Vision tries to dismiss it as a traditional European reception, telling them that Wanda is from Europe, and they seem to be biting.

But there is no food yet. So Wanda goes to Agnes for help and of course Agnes has a lot of extra food to relieve her. Lobster, steak, all nine yards. But things keep going wrong, in the true fashion of sitcoms. After trusting Wanda Agnes gets out the back door, she goes to work trying to cook everything at once using her telekinetic powers. It’s not going well. The lobster flies out the window. Pots boil over. The hen burns and tries to turn it back and ends with a basket of eggs. Maybe it would be better to keep Agnes around.

Meanwhile, the Harts are very hungry. Ms. Hart continues to try to get help in the kitchen, and Vision needs to get her attention by singing the song he heard playing at work: Coaster’s old song, “Yakety Yak. ”

It’s just in time, too. Ms. Hart opens the blinds to the kitchen and just turns away in time to miss the floating pans and cookware.

Eventually, after sing-a-long grating (Old MacDonald Had A Farm) Wanda prepares and does better. That’s breakfast for dinner, which is always great.

They sit down to eat and things get weird. Things get weird right away. Ms. Hart asks a series of basic, calm questions. Where did they meet. When did they get married. Why they moved. . . where is “here”.

And Wanda and Vision are both completely stopped. When rinn will they marry? Why don’t they have rings? Why they moved. . . here?

Mr Hart feels sorry. He starts to drag the board. He wants answers. And then he chokes his girlfriend. And no one is moving. Wanda and Vision watch, worried phrases plastered to the face. Ms Hart just repeated, “Stop, stop, stop, stop it, stop ”and so on and so forth, and she smiled softly, a big critical smile on her face.

It is a deep, deep creep.

Eventually Mr. Hart just comes over to the ground, capturing Wanda from her reverie. “Help it, Lèirsinn,” she says.

And Vision descends to the ground, reaching through Mr. Hart’s chest and removing the barrier. He helps Mr. Hart up. Rather than be upset, Mr Hart is unattached. He looks at his watch and says “Would you watch the time!” and the path of laughter begins. The hungry couple have barely touched their food, but go with them.

“I’m delighted with you,” Mr Hart tells Vision. “On Monday morning we’ll have a discussion about that inspiration!”

Wanda and Vision sit down on the runway. They are upset. Why not have an anniversary or rings? Why not celebrate our birthday? Vision compliments. And Wanda can make rings for them. So they do and she does. They are a perfect pair of pictures. Lucy and Ricky. With superpowers and without memories.

The camera pulls out to some false beliefs and then out of the black and white world completely and we see someone, someone secretive, in some kind of control room watching the event on a small screen. The plot, as they say, it’s thick!

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Judgment

Everyone said, this was the premiere of an amazing, creative, funny and very weird series. I wasn’t laughing so much. Both Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany do an admirable job, but Bettany is directing the show. It’s just funny (and even more so in the second episode).

I also like the mystery. What on earth is going on here? The last one we saw of Scarlett Witch and Vision, Vision died. Thanos killed him, and unlike most of the rest of the world who killed the Snap, Vision was actually dead – one of only three (by my count) he wouldn’t make a comeback after Take down Titan.

So my opinion is: The scene is dead. He ‘s still dead and what we see playing outside – that’s clear No true, not the 1950s – this is all in Wanda’s head. The question is why and how and who is involved. Okay, the questions. Lots of questions, no answers yet. Eight more events after this one to prove it.

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