#Wandavision episode 1 recap series#

It's why 'Lost' and shows like it can blow up so big on first broadcast. With this, they can get invested and involved in the mystery. Fans just had to live with it as life moved on.

Yes, we had that huge cliffhanger in the penultimate 'Avengers' film, but that wasn't going to resolve in a week. Spreading out the wonder and tease and uncertainty for two months creates something the MCU hasn't really toyed with on this scale - tension. 'WandaVision' wouldn't be nearly as compelling on the big screen where this entire story would unfold in three hours or less. Television can tell stories in ways you just can't do on the big screen. They actually proved a turn-off to more casual fans who lacked the patience to explore a different kind of MCU story, one that wasn't determined to give you a satisfying ending before every credit roll. It's effectively a long-form mystery, and it's definitely benefiting from the weekly pause to allow fans to marinate over all its clues and questions.Įven its structure has been mysterious, with no real certainty at all as to what was going on in those first two episodes. by her very own mother, Maria (remember 'Captain Marvel'?) as well as the death of said mother - Monica suddenly found herself in the center of the biggest mystery on television.Ĭan we take a moment to say that this show right here makes the case for why the MCU deserves to expand to the television format. WandaVision's Emma Caulfield on Fans' Dottie Theories and Buffy Connections (Exclusive)Īnd so, with five years of her life inexplicably missing - and tragically having missed out on the creation of S.W.O.R.D. Turns out she was one of the half that didn't make it. That's right, Monica's story picks up after the undoing of Thanos' infamous snap. We stepped all the way back to the second 'blip,' five years after the first one that wiped out half of known life in the universe. With her firmly on the outside of whatever forcefield is surrounding the town, we took a step out and back ourselves.

In fact, it was Monica's ejection from the fantasy sitcom world of Westview that ushered in this surprising - and fantastic - new perspective on the series. Wanda kind of took care of that question last week. Not only do we now know where in the MCU timeline this story fits (we always had an idea), we have a much better understanding of what's going on.Īt the same time, we have as many questions as we did before, and we've still no idea how anyone is going to get out of this one.

If there was any question as to just how this fit into the MCU, those questions were definitely answered by the end of this episode. As teased in a short trailer presented on Thursday, Friday's new episode took viewers all the way out of Westview and directly in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

#Wandavision episode 1 recap series#

The mysterious Marvel series answers almost every question the first three episodes posed by offering a whole different perspective of events!įully expecting to step into the world of 1980s sitcoms, 'WandaVision' had other ideas.