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In an effort to track exactly how WandaVision dialogues with television tropes, forms, and sitcom styles before it, we will be unpacking every episode's references and engagements, giving you a clue into just how creatively unprecedented this MCU series is, but also a brief history of broadcast television itself. Shall we begin?Įpisode 1 - "Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience"Įpisode 1 throws us squarely into classic 1950s sitcom territory, giving us the production design, the 4:3 black-and-white photography, and the general visual “vibe” of these types of shows immediately. George Burns interrupted the plotlines of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show to speak directly to the audience about what they were watching Ernie Kovacs disrupted the early visual language of television to present a series of surreal, form-breaking vignettes and now, WandaVision is here to heighten and jam all of this into a pleasing, gripping, and very, very, very weird blender. The MCU/Disney+ television show takes its cue from the genre and formal conventions of broadcast television, and even (especially?) in its earliest, most formative years, broadcast television has been weird - partially because of its status of intimacy within the American household, partially because the early talent pool consisted of vaudeville and theatre writers/performers who were more than willing to muck with people out of the gate, and partially because the creators of the form needed to immediately set themselves apart from the golden removedness of seeing a film at the cinema. Worse, if you fail the man's body will land only a few feet away while DedSec tell Marcus it wasn't his fault.WandaVision is weird, but not without precedent. You have 3 chances to save him, and every time you fail to do so by hacking his phone before getting his contact's number from the nearby laptop he'll be driven over the edge by completely undeserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech from his friends and family. On the wrong end of a massive retaliation - being framed for embezzlement and had a photoshopped image made showing he was in an affair sent to his wife.
Despite his anarchist tendencies, Wrench is a nice, somewhat violent Anti-Hero, and never really gets angry.
The fact that Marcus almost immediately goes on a rampage against the Tezcas for this makes it worse. Marcus is only able to get there quick enough to be with him before he expires and is desperately telling Horatio to hang on while Josh calls an ambulance.