WandaVision Episode 3 Recap: Double Delight in the 1970s
Spoilers ahead for WandaVision episode 3. By Akhil Arora | Updated: 22 January 2021 14:01 IST
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Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff in WandaVision episode 3
Highlights
Modelled after 1970s sitcoms, episode 3 is entirely in colour
SWORD makes another appearance on WandaVision S1E3
WandaVision episode 3 out January 22 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar centres around a rapidly-progressing, life-changing event: a pregnancy. The words rapidly-progressing and pregnancy aren t usually found in the same sentence, but in this strange sitcom-y world of Marvel s new TV series, everything goes. Wanda s (Elizabeth Olsen) baby bump, introduced towards the end of WandaVision episode 2, is not only deemed to be “really happening” but then springs more surprises. She gives birth to twins! Marvel comics fans would ve seen this coming, given Wanda and Vision (Paul Bet
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