WandaVision Episode 6 Brings Us Closer to the Real Villain of Westview
The show continues its descent into Wanda s madness, but don t mistake her for the show s ultimate threat. Nor, maybe, it s true hero.
Marvel Studios
WandaVision Explained is our ongoing series that keeps tabs on Marvel Studios’ sitcom saga about TV’s happiest tragic couple. In this entry, we turn our channel to WandaVision Episode 6 and contemplate an impending heroic rescue. Yes, prepare for SPOILERS.
Westview is in trouble. More so than we possibly imagined. Its citizens are not merely caught in some superhero psychotherapy. They’re trapped in a catatonic state, free to move only when in the vicinity of Wanda (
Warning: This review contains spoilers for the current episode of WandaVision
Last week’s WandaVision welcomed us back to the real world, where we met the real Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and saw organisation SWORD’s attempts to breach Wanda’s (Elizabeth Olsen) reality. We’ll admit, it wasn’t our favourite, becoming a bit of a familiar detective show after three episodes of the surreal sitcom. Thankfully, we’re back to our usual programming this week. Sort of.
We’ve now progressed to an 80s family sitcom complete with subtext laden theme tune (“we wanted a world with a vision of what life could be”). Wanda and Vision (Paul Bettany) are wrestling with parenthood, trying to get the twins to sleep. Agnes (Katherine Hahn) arrives to help before stalling, asking if we should “go again” when Vision isn’t fed the lines she expects. Wanda quickly corrects things but Vision is suspicious, more so when the twins suddenly age up to 5.
WandaVision Episode 5: A Universe-Bending Special Guest Star and More Burning Questions
Adam B. Vary, provided by
Feb. 5, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
SPOILER ALERT:
Do not read if you have not yet watched Season 1, Episode 5 of Disney Plus’ “WandaVision.”
First things first and truly heed that spoiler warning, because we’re diving right into the deep end it would appear that Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision’s (Paul Bettany) adventures through television have ripped open a tear in the multiverse. What else are we to make of the sudden appearance of Evan Peters as Pietro Maximoff?
More from Variety
That’s right, the actor who played the