The Minor Marvel Actor Who Was Huge in Making WandaVision Possible
Last week saw the debut of
WandaVision, Disney+ s first Marvel Studios/Marvel Cinematic Universe series. The project, which was formatted as a pair of sitcom episodes and saw The Vision (Paul Bettany) and Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) in surprisingly meta reinventions of their characters from the
Avengers movies, may be Marvel s most daring break with the norm since
Guardians of the Galaxy. Deconstructing sitcom tropes while making constant callbacks to beloved TV classics has given
WandaVision a voice that s completely distinct among Marvel properties, which tend to be some of the very best formulaic action-adventure movies currently being made.
Major TV Debuts From the Year You Were Born
By Abby Monteil, Stacker News
On 1/2/21 at 12:00 PM EST
As the landscape of TV continues to shift, it s always a good time to pause and look at the medium s history. Although the latest buzzy Netflix show dominating everyday conversations is normal, television is one of the youngest art forms around. The first American TV station began broadcasting in 1928, but television didn t really start growing into the influential, widespread phenomenon that it is now until the 1950s.
Since there were initially only three major TV networks ABC, CBS, and NBC popular television was limited to a strict number of channels and studios for decades. The advent of cable television and streaming services has allowed more and more diverse forms of TV storytelling to be made. The most popular show that aired in 2012 when an 8-year-old was born looks vastly different than the most popular show that aired in 1965 when a 55-year-old was born.