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What is Grief, If Not Love Persevering? A WandaVision Review
A new era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Ok… we’re in for a ride with this one. And before we get started, does anyone want to get out? Cause there’s SPOILERS ahead.
When Marvel Studios started announcing their post-Endgame slate of movies and TV shows, WandaVision was possibly the one I was least interested in; though I have enjoyed the characters, neither Wanda nor Vision were personal favorites of mine. But that has never really stopped Marvel; in the past, they’ve taken characters I knew nothing about, characters I didn’t care about, and even characters that I disliked in the comics, and made me give a damn about them. And the same, too, is true of WandaVision.
Let’s track this from the beginning, shall we? Even though both characters originated in Avengers: Age of Ultron and featured prominently in Captain America: Civil War and in Avengers: Infinity War (not to mention Wanda nearly defeating Thanos singlehandedly in Endgame), neither are characters we’ve gotten to know too personally; they’ve always been side characters in someone else’s story, parts of a moving whole but not the focus.
And I think, honestly, it was that lack of focus on these two characters that put WandaVision so low on my radar; I didn’t care about them as…
