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In Living in Harmony, a 1967 episode of The Prisoner, viewers already baffled by the show’s various mysteries were further flummoxed by what seemed to be an entirely different iteration of the series. That week, Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) was not a retired spy in the cosily sinister Village but a troubled sheriff in a western town called Harmony.
At the end of the episode, it transpired that the protagonist was in a virtual-reality simulacrum of the sort of TV western that was already going out of fashion. McGoohan and company were evoking a behind-the-times genre for one episode… though there were no prizes for being ahead of the times, not least in doing a virtual reality story decades before the term was coined.
WandaVision Episode 9 Clears a New Path for the Most Powerful Avenger
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WandaVision Episode 8 Splays Wanda s Trauma for All to See
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A Hero and A Villain Rise in WandaVision Episode 7
As we race to a catastrophic climax, Wanda s fate rests with two Westview interlopers.
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 7 (“Breaking the Fourth Wall”) and consider the villain pulling the strings all along. Yes, prepare for SPOILERS.
The Hex is falling apart. Wanda (
Elizabeth Olsen) can’t keep her fantasy together. Her home warbles and morphs, mixing the various sitcom illusions. As Vision (
Paul Bettany) races toward her from the fringes of her altered reality, Wanda struggles to find meaning in what she’s done and what she can still do.
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 (