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
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine First Season
Original air dates: January – June 1993
Executive Producers: Rick Berman & Michael Piller
Station log: For the first time, there was a
Star Trek show that couldn’t be described with those fateful words, “These are the voyages of the starship
Enterprise.” With the debut of “Emissary” in January 1993, the definition of
Star Trek changed forever.
DS9, beyond the obvious fact that this was the first
Trek TV show not set on a ship named
Enterprise, indeed the first to take place in a (somewhat) static location. It was also the first
Trek show with a black commanding officer and a female first officer, and the only