Monica Rambeau has been in
WandaVision as their neighbor and friend, Geraldine. Showing up in “Don’t Touch That Dial,” she was one of the only neighbors that seemed genuinely nice to Wanda and Vision. In “Now In Color,” Geraldine is the one who is there to help Wanda when her sudden pregnancy has progressed to her giving birth in the span of one day.
To Geraldine’s credit, she doesn’t question most of what’s happening, which only drives home one important fact: She most definitely is there to try to work for S.W.O.R.D. and get Wanda out safe. This episode has Wanda in labor with Billy and Tommy, her twins that she manifests in the comics. While Vision is off trying to get the doctor to come back to deliver the baby, Geraldine is helping Wanda as paintings are flipping and the house is moving and doing things on its own because of Wanda.
The sillier this series becomes, the darker the reality appears.
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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 3 and consider the invaders who occupy their domestic dream. Yes, prepare for spoilers.
Along with the release of the latest
WandaVision episode, Disney+ unveiled its titles for the first three: “Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience,” “Don’t Touch That Dial,” and, for this week, “Now in Color.” As if you didn’t know already, Marvel is fully committed to this series’ sitcom sendup. The dedication is impressive but also a little constricting. The walls are closing in on our heroes, and their wide smiles cannot last for long.
The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch, but it’s not all fun and bell bottoms. There’s been criticism that the first two episodes were too dependent on viewers picking up all the clever meta references to classic TV sitcoms such as
Leave It To Beaver and
Bewitched. Although this episode, aptly titled “Now In Color,” continues
WandaVision’s impressive attention to period detail, the plot kicks into thrilling overdrive.
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The previous episode,“Don’t Touch That Dial,” ended with Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) mysteriously, suddenly pregnant, and her and Vision’s (Paul Bettany) world had just as mysteriously and suddenly shifted from its mid-1960s black-and-white setting to 1970s full color. It’s an aesthetic downgrade, if you’ll forgive my bias. I already miss Wanda’s capri pants and Laura Petrie hairstyle. Wanda and Vision now live in a very 1970s mid-century home with a hideous green couch and trip-hazard sunken living room. The floating stairc
From the start of
WandaVision‘s press, I thought that the show was going to be Wanda Maximoff trapping herself away in her own mind. But after the first two episodes of the series, I’ve started to wonder: How much is Wanda actually in charge of what is happening to her?
As we saw in episode 2, “Don’t Touch That Dial,” Wanda has some kind of control. At the end of the episode, when a man dressed as a beekeeper appears, she says “no” and rewinds time so she and Vision have their “happy” ending. Throughout the first two episodes, we can hear Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) constantly calling out to Wanda, asking who is doing this to her.