1.01 – Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience
Aired on January 15, 2021 • Directed by Matt Shakman • Written by Jac Schaeffer, Peter Cameron and Mackenzie Dohr
Wanda and Vision struggle to conceal their powers during dinner with Vision’s boss and his wife.
‘WandaVision’ Episode 1 Recap: A Love Like You’ve Never Seen
Let’s dig into whatever’s happening to Wanda and Vision in the Disney+ series premiere.Ohhhhh a newlywed couple just moved to town. A regular husband and wife Who left the big city. To find a quiet life WandaVision! She’s a magical gal in a small town locale. He’s a hubby who’s part machin. eHow will this duo fit in and fulfill all? By sharing a love like you’ve never seen WandaVision!
Those are the lyrics for WandaVision’s opening theme song… at least, this first version. The premiere of the MCU’s most bold creative experiment yet very deliberately aims to reveal nothing at first — except for the fact that while we might seem to be watching a black-and-white sitcom about happy young couple Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), there’s a lot more going on here.
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- When Wanda accidentally smashes a plate into Vision’s head, he jokes about his wife and her “flying saucers,” and she comments back about his “indestructible head.” Considering that Vision died after having the Mind Stone ripped from his head, it’s a dark joke to kick off the series.
1.02 – Don’t Touch That Dial
Aired on January 15, 2021 • Directed by Matt Shakman • Written by Jac Schaeffer, Peter Cameron
‘WandaVision’ Episode 2 Recap: What a Magical Turn of Events! Flourish!
‘WandaVision’ moves forward into the 1960s, but once again nothing is as it seems. Flourish!I hate to start off here on a negative note, but my absolute least favorite part of WandaVision as a show, so far, is that Episode 2 has a very modern and very jarring “Previously On…” segment. For a show that so brilliantly launched us into a trippy world drawn from the history of classic television, one built on darker secrets, this completely world-breaking choice is a genuine disappointment and one of this show’s very few missteps. I suppose it’s understandable why Disney+/Marvel would make this choice, but I just wanted to be on the record as saying I do not like it.
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- The opening credits for this episode aren’t just an adorable homage to Bewitched but a whole bevy of Marvel Easter eggs! The illustration of the moon happens to be surrounded by six stars, and we can’t help but be reminded of the Infinity Gauntlet.
1.03 – Now in Color
Aired on January 22, 2021 • Directed by Matt Shakman • Written by Megan McDonnell, Jac Schaeffer, Peter Cameron
Wanda’s pregnancy fritzes her powers as she and Vision prepare for an accelerated delivery.
‘WandaVision’ Episode 3 Recap: All Great Expectations Lead to Complications
‘WandaVision’ leaps forward into the ’70s and into a new phase of Wanda and Vision’s love story.
To begin with the middle, let me kick off this recap with this: One of history’s most frustrating/interesting sitcom tropes has been rooted in when an actress has gotten pregnant (as women are prone to do) and instead of the show writing it into the plot, the production just decides to hide how much larger her midsection is getting. Honestly, at some points, it’s downright hilarious to witness how these women are forced to wear baggy clothing or carry large purses or cereal boxes to disguise their “condition.” So the way that WandaVision’s third episode plays with that trope through large coats and bowls of fruit is a true delight.
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- Much like the comics, Wanda magically becomes pregnant! But this time around, things are progressing much more quickly, and her doctor isn’t Dr. Strange.
1.04 – We Interrupt This Program
Aired on January 29, 2021 • Directed by Matt Shakman • Written by Bobak Esfarjani, Megan McDonnell, Jac Schaeffer
Monica Rambeau, tasked with a special assignment regarding sentient weapons, goes missing.
‘WandaVision’ Episode 4 Recap: There’s Something Happening Here
Hey, for the cheap seats, here’s what’s been going on in the world outside ‘WandaVision.’
Real talk: I’m genuinely on the fence about “We Interrupt This Program” coming in as it does in this season of WandaVision. On the one hand, I love how the show is taking a step back to show a whole other side of the story being told here, and the insights we gain from these 30 minutes are essential to understanding what’s going on. That said, I gotta say, I was loving the exploration of genres that had been happening until now, and the break from format is a bit jarring.
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- Darcy explains that the sitcom that’s become Wanda and Vision’s life is literally being broadcast through the signals that S.W.O.R.D.’s viewing, with an audience and everything. There’s no explanation for how this is happening, but Darcy and company watched those first three episodes just like we did, credits and all.
1.05 – On a Very Special Episode…
Aired on February 5, 2021 • Directed by Matt Shakman • Written by Peter Cameron, Mackenzie Dohr, Jac Schaeffer
Wanda addresses Vision’s worries when he grows suspicious of the neighbors’ strange behaviour.
‘WandaVision’ Episode 5 Recap: “Don’t Know Much About History…”
Family Ties was so ’80s, it didn’t dare air one of its 176 episodes outside of the decade. The show’s premise is also thoroughly ’80s: aging hippies become working professional parents to a Reagan-obsessed young republican, a boy-crazy mall queen, and a spunky tomboy. Looking back, it’s incredibly easy to look at Family Ties as indistinguishable from Growing Pains or The Cosby Show or Full House. They all focus on mysteriously affluent families who live in spacious houses that manifest new bedrooms as the cast inevitably grows. But Family Ties should stand out from those because it was the first mega-hit of its very specific kind.
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- Wanda and Vision’s brand new house, suitable for a family of four, is reminiscent of homes in ’80s sitcoms such as Full House and Growing Pains.
- When Agnes comes in to offer her babysitting help, she refers to herself as “Auntie Agnes,” which is eerily close to her comic counterpart’s nickname, Auntie Agatha.
1.06 – All-New Halloween Spooktacular!
Aired on February 12, 2021 • Directed by Matt Shakman • Written by Chuck Hayward, Peter Cameron, Jac Schaeffer
Disturbances on Halloween separate Wanda from Vision, who looks into anomalous activity in Westview.
‘WandaVision’ Episode 6 Recap: That’s Not How I Remember It
In Season 1 Episode 6, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!”, the weirdness really gets ramped up.
It’s a new week of WandaVision, which means a new time period and visual style borrowed from an iconic family sitcom, and of course a new theme song:Don’t try to fight the chaos
Don’t question what you’ve done
Some days it’s all confusion
Easy come and easy go
But if it’s all illusion
Sit back, enjoy the show
Let’s keep it going
Let’s keep it going
Through each distorted day
Let’s keep it going
Let’s keep it going
Though there may be no way of knowing
Who’s coming by to play
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- The entire Wanda and Vision family wear their comic book character costumes for Halloween.
1.07 – Breaking the Fourth Wall
Aired on February 19, 2021 • Directed by Matt Shakman • Written by Cameron Squires, Jac Schaeffer, Peter Cameron
Monica plots her return, Wanda navigates unsettling complications, and Vision forms a new alliance.
‘WandaVision’ Episode 7 Recap: Just a Case of the Mondays
In ‘Breaking the Fourth Wall,’ ‘WandaVision’ delivered a few big reveals.Well, with three episodes left in the season, we knew that the time was nigh for WandaVision to drop at least one big surprise on us — and really, this week we got a few. “Breaking the Fourth Wall” in many respects serves as a bridge episode, covering Wanda’s crumbling psyche following the events of Halloween, but it also packs in some key developments priming us for the season’s eventual endgame. (How many times am I allowed to use the word “endgame” while writing about a MCU show? Probably not more than three. We’ll see if I can stick to that.)
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- The episode opens the morning after Wanda has expanded the border of the Hex, finding the Avenger hiding from the world under her comforter. The comforter in question has a hexagon pattern, which is both a nod to the overall theme of the show as well as a metaphor for how Wanda is literally hiding away under a hex.
1.08 – Previously On
Aired on February 26, 2021 • Directed by Matt Shakman • Written by Laura Donne,yJac Schaeffer, Peter Cameron
Wanda embarks on a troubling journey revisiting her past for insight into her present and future.
‘WandaVision’ Episode 8 Recap: Time to Look At Some Real Reruns
It’s a clip show! (Sorta.)
So here we are with the penultimate episode of WandaVision and… well. No fictitious commercials. No catchy original theme song. No changing the aspect ratio. No post-modern commentary on sitcoms at all (sort of). Instead, Episode 8, “Previously On,” eschews whimsy and fantasy to focus on reality.
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- We’ve always known that the MCU’s version of Wanda is different from the comics, and episode eight finally establishes her place in MCU lore. Instead of being a mutant (or mutate as the comics retcon), Wanda is a born witch whose power amplified when she was exposed to the Mind Stone.
1.09 – The Series Finale
Aired on March 5, 2021 • Directed by Matt Shakman • Written by Jac Schaeffer, Peter Cameron, Mackenzie Dohr
Wanda battles Agatha and Vision fights his S.W.O.R.D. counterpart as Hayward launches an attack on Westview.
‘WandaVision’ Episode 9 Recap: End of Transmission
‘The Series Finale’ resolved a lot of plot and delivered a lot of tears.
I begin the writing of this recap with the belief that it might actually be a pretty straightforward episode of television to cover. Frightfully so, in fact. (Frightfully because there are witches involved? I’m going for a theme here.) To be sure, WandaVision’s “series finale” (full-on entitled “The Series Finale”) does wrap up the story of the weirdness happening in Westview, offering up both narrative and emotional closure, but there are also a fair number of loose ends that will very likely factor into upcoming MCU adventures (and despite the episode title, don’t exactly rule out a second season).
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- When Wanda hurls a car at Agatha, throwing her into the front of a nearby house, the older witch is buried underneath. When Wanda goes to check on the wreckage, she sees Agatha’s boots pointing out from underneath the car, a nod to another dark witch’s death by a large object crashing onto her from The Wizard of Oz.
