WandaVision Is Designed To Feel Like A Complete Comic Book Story
WandaVision is designed to feel like a complete comic book story. The MCU's first foray into sitcom television has a dark mystery lingering underneath the laugh track. What's really going on with Wanda, Vision, and their new home in city of Westview? The first three episodes are currently available to stream on Disney+, with the remaining six WandaVision episodes being released every following Friday.
WandaVision takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame and follows Wanda and Vision as they live life as a happily married couple in sitcom suburbia, jumping ahead a decade with every new episode. Somehow Vision is miraculously alive, and doesn't seem to recall that Thanos killed him by cruelly rewinding time and ripping the Mind Stone out of his forehead in Avengers: Infinity War. Vision's unexplained resurrection is just one of the many aspects of WandaVision that just doesn't seem quite right. WandaVision episode 3 reveals that Westview is actually enclosed in a force field, and it's being watched from the outside by special agents. (Who all point guns at Geraldine when Wanda throws her out of the force field.) There's a lot of questions to answer in the remaining six episodes of WandaVision. Is that nearly enough time to unravel all of the show's mysteries?
WandaVision's head writer and showrunner Jac Schaeffer seems to think so. Schaeffer spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the intense writing process for the series, and how she thinks the season feels complete from her point of view. Check out what Schaeffer had to say below.
"It was always the design with these shows that they feel like a run of a comic...In that way, it feels very complete. It's an emotional completion I stand by and feel great about and always was very much baked in."
It's reassuring to know that the first season of WandaVision will feel like a complete story for fans even without a second season. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that a new story couldn't be introduced for another season. (Schaeffer wouldn't confirm or deny the possibility of WandaVision returning for a season 2.)
With the way that WandaVision is currently going, it's hard to tell what will happen next or how Wanda's current story will end. Is Westview a result of Wanda manipulating reality? Vision did appear to start catching on and questioning the weirdness of their living situation in episode 3, prompting Wanda to rewind time just enough so Vision promptly forgot what he was questioning in the first place. Is Wanda more aware that her charmed life isn't quite as magical as it seems? Will Vision ever discover or remember the truth? Is Wanda's fake world really a prison for witches?
Every episode of WandaVision so far seems to keep introducing more questions than answers, but that's what makes it so compelling to watch week by week. Who's really doing this to Wanda? Hopefully fans will find out when season 1's final chapter closes on Disney+ on March 5th.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter