) and Vision , two of the MCU’s most powerful and tragic characters, into the jarringly low-stakes world of a picture-perfect sitcom neighborhood circa 1950-something. Gone are the sprawling military bases, high tech galactic speedsters and far flung corners of the Earth that acted as backdrops for the Avengers’ latest battles.
If you’re a casual Marvel viewer rather than an obsessive, coming across this series may just be confusing. And if you’re at all a fan of the classic shows that inspired it…well, maybe you’ll just leave “WandaVision” wanting to watch the classic shows that inspired it. Despite their comedy frameworks, none of the episodes are particularly funny.
From a pure aesthetic standpoint, it’s surprising and undeniably effective to see “WandaVision” twist the established Marvel brand to fit a very specific, entirely different mode. Bettany’s clearly having fun letting looser in “WandaVision” than he ever could in something like “Avengers: Infinity War,” though direct comparisons of this “aw, shucks” iteration of Vision to the elastic Dick Van Dyke performance that obviously inspired it don’t do Bettany any favors.
This review feels spot on to me.
Grow a pair and say that the one joke that works wears damn thin damn quick.
Blues singer Carolyn Gaines
It sounds like a stupid idea.
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