WandaVision on Disney+ will be a time-traveling avant-garde sitcom romp

Disney+, Disney’s very own streaming service, is coming out in November. The company has a ton of content for it in the pipeline, including several shows starring characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There’s Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and I’m sure a few we haven’t heard about yet.

And then there’s WandaVision, a show revolving around Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany). Of all the Marvel shows on deck, this was probably the one I was least interested in…until I saw the poster:

First of all, didn’t Vision die in Avengers: Infinity War? (And I mean he died died, not snapped-away-and-snapped-back-in-Endgame died.) How will they bring him back. And once they do, how do he and Scarlet Witch end up living life as a stereotypically suburban couple in the 1950s? Just what in the wide world of sports is going on?

Olsen and Bettany further piqued my curiosity when talking to MTV News Disney’s recent D23 Expo. Watch below:

“I don’t think that myself or Lizzie have ever been more surprised when [Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige] pitched the idea to us,” Bettany said. “He pitched this idea for a sort of six-hour movie that I would never [have thought of] in a million years, which is why he is the one earning the really big bucks. It’s so avant garde, and weird, and messed up, and then moves seamlessly into more familiar territory. But the place where it starts is so odd.”

"In these situations, you always say ‘We’re really excited,’ but I’m genuinely blown away. As the scripts come in, the work is just so extraordinary."

Olsen sounded pretty psyched, too:

"We get to play around with a totally different genre with these characters that we have based in reality, one this planet Earth where it could also be exploded by aliens or whatever — that reality. We’ve based it there and now, we get to morph them into a sitcom universe and get to be stylized, we get to play around as actors, [and] we get to play around with time period. It’s just gonna be a wild ride and then it’s gonna morph back into the familiar world that we know of Marvel. It’s gonna be a mashup."

Avant garde? Playing with time period? A sitcom portion? Weird and messed up? WandaVision is officially my most anticipated MCU show.

Unfortunately, I’m not closer to understanding exactly how any of the weird stuff happens, or what it even is. Theories already abound. It could have something to do with Wanda using her powers to alter reality, or it may tie in to whatever’s going to happen in the upcoming Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. Marvel has a pretty remarkable track record at this point, so I’m willing to wait for them to deliver something good.

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