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A breathless press release arrived in the inbox on Tuesday. It announced that in May there will be a televised concert, broadcast all over the world and hosted by Selena Gomez, aiming to “inspire vaccine confidence worldwide and help get the COVID-19 vaccines to everyone, everywhere.” It’s called
VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World.
WandaVision’s first episode, which is set in the 1950s à la
The Dick Van Dyke Show (which was actually the early ‘60s), the production tried to copy almost everything a show like that would have done. It was shot in front of a live studio audience who were asked to sit on old chairs. Vision’s office set, as well as the living room and kitchen sets, were all on the same stage next to each other. The actors wore period clothing, down to the underwear, and even the crew all dressed up in period garb.
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Though
was always a show about the Avengers’ Sokovian juggernaut confronting the stifling grief that’s been plaguing her since she first showed up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the series was also the world’s introduction to Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau, the now-adult daughter of Maria Rambeau who first appeared in
Captain Marvel. The promise of her role loomed large over the Disney+ series, but by the end, it turned Monica’s second debut into a haphazard crash landing that’ll be hard to shake off for the comics’ first female Captain Marvel.
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Though Monica’s frequently fought alongside and led the Avengers in Marvel’s comics, her relatively thin canonical history with Wanda Maximoff in particular made the character’s presence in
I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke Show marathons on Nick At Nite, I was not among those itching for
WandaVision to move past the spectacular channeling of classic TV. That said, I still pored over every weighted phrase and possible hint of what was to come. The world Wanda created was fascinating, and the fact that she had no idea how she did it made for riveting storytelling inside Westview, that is. I enjoy Josh Stamberg, but he was in a different show. Where the world of Westview’s sitcom imitations was exciting and new, Hayward’s mission felt like a stale rerun: setting the stage for Vision’s revival seemed somewhat unnecessary, and Monica Rambeau could’ve gotten her superhero origin story without a clichéd boss in the way. (I’d also add Monica’s long-touted mystery guest being a no-name agent to the manipulations list Sam started with Fake Pietro.)