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Ifâlike Wanda Maximoffâyouâve been living in your own reality, distant from all things in 2021, you may not have heard about âWandaVision,â whose first and only season ended on March 5th. (If youâre planning to watch it and hate spoilers, stop reading now.) The immensely popular show, from Disney+ and Marvel Studios, follows Wanda, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch, an Eastern European refugee with âchaos magicâ powers, and her husband Vision, a synthezoid (android) who died in the events of the Marvel movie âAvengers: Infinity War.â Nearly all nine episodes of âWandaVisionâ depict the pair in what appears to be domestic suburban bliss. Nearly all take plots and visual style from one of the sitcoms that Wanda watched for solace during her bleak wartime youth, from the black and white of âThe Dick Van Dyke Showâ to the faux-reality vibe of âThe Office.â