WandaVision Episode 8 review: S1E8 revels in last week s reveal
James City A.M. s film editor and a regular on both TV and radio discussing the latest movie releases
If you’ve been watching WandaVision every week (and if you haven’t, why are you reading this?), you’ll have been humming a certain theme tune for the past week. Yep, it was Agatha All Along!
Or was it?
Following the jaw-dropping twist last week that kindly neighbour Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) was in fact a powerful witch named Agatha Harkness, we get a stroll through Marvel’s history, in an episode presumably designed for those who haven’t quite caught up with the films.
During the first weeks of coronavirus quarantine, I binge-watched a lot of television but not the newest Netflix offerings. Instead, I retreated into classic TV sitcoms, shows I’d grown up loving, most of which I hadn’t seen in years. (My 7-year-old has a new appreciation for
I Dream of Jeannie.) These programs were comforting during an uncomfortable period. They transported me to a simpler time.
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Life was never simple for Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), which
WandaVision’s second-to-last episode, “Previously On,” achingly demonstrates. TV sitcoms were a refuge from the relentless trauma in her life. She watches
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