By: Marc Millete
We get a set up on Wanda & Vision’s life together in this small town. We meet their next-door neighbor, Agnes, a couple of Vision’s co-workers, his boss, and the boss’s wife. There is an awkward dinner that Wanda thought was an anniversary but ended up being a visit from Vision’s boss. When Mr. Hart starts badgering them about their history, he starts to choke and Wanda tells Vision to save him. When their guests leave they decide that today is their anniversary and Wanda creates rings for them. It pans out to multiple screens with a dark-haired woman taking notes in a book with a SWORD logo on it. Halfway through the episode, there was a commercial for a Stark Industries toaster.
The episode is a chaotic masterpiece. Wanda is clearly either the architect of their reality or has some role in shaping the world around them. Vision, who died in Avengers: Infinity War seems to be alive and well. Almost every detail of their current life is fabricated and reality is tearing itself apart at the seams. Episode one shows just how powerful Wanda is and her potential to be dangerous.
Pros
*Perfectly done sitcom
*Drops a hint right at the end to let you know who’s watching
*Just odd enough to let you know something isn’t right
*Good set up of their life
*Wanda using her powers in everyday life
Cons
*Left me wanting more
*I wanted a little more oddness in this first episode
*Wanda went and lost her accent
Rating: 4 out of 5 flying saucers
This episode was a great introduction to an old sitcom. We “meet” the main characters and a couple of side characters. Wanda makes a friend in the neighborhood and Vision scores points with his boss. Debra Jo Rupp was perfect as Mrs. Hart. From the intro scene, they worked their powers into the comedy. We have no idea what is going on, Vision was dead, Wanda had an accent. Who brought Wanda to this little town? What other characters are important? Agnes seems important, and her name combines Wanda’s teacher in the comic universe, Agatha Harkness. Plus whoever is using Wanda is using Vision as well in his computational job. The Stark toaster in the commercial sounded like a bomb ticking down calling back to the Stark bomb that sat at Wanda’s house for days without going off until they were rescued. Their address is a nice throw-in, 2800 is the multiverse number of the MCU. The end seems to be Darcy from the first two Thor movies, she’s gone back to school and finished her doctorate and is working for SWORD now. SWORD is somehow getting this odd tv show beamed into them. How are they picking up the signal? We leave the first episode knowing very little with even less to speculate on, but that’s why they gave us two episodes to start off with. I loved the show. Something completely different for Marvel. There aren’t any explosions, yet. There aren’t any world-ending events going on, that we know of yet. Just pure simple fun for one episode.