{"id":208068,"date":"2021-03-04T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/wandavision-says-power-limitations-sitcoms\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:00:41","slug":"what-wandavision-says-about-the-power-and-limitations-of-sitcoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/04\/what-wandavision-says-about-the-power-and-limitations-of-sitcoms\/","title":{"rendered":"What WandaVision Says About The Power And Limitations Of Sitcoms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WandaVision<\/em><\/strong>‘s use of sitcom tropes made it stand out from\u00a0the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The show was praised for how well it recreated the feeling of different decades of television<\/a>. Up until episode eight, the amount of time and money put into recreating the feeling of classic shows felt fun but fairly arbitrary. By this point in the series, it seems the show is done with these masterful homages. If there are future seasons as Marvel Studio\u2019s boss Kevin Feige neither confirms nor denies<\/a>, it seems that would have to be quite different from this season as the sitcom structure has fulfilled its purpose in the show.<\/p>\n

In Episode 4, the quirky audience surrogate Darcy Lewis<\/a>, after watching multiple episodes of WandaVision<\/em> herself asks \u201cWhy does it keep switching time periods? It can\u2019t be purely for my enjoyment.\u201d Episode 8 titled \u2018Previously On\u2019 delivers the show\u2019s answer to that question. The episode has a structure similar to Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol<\/em>, with Agatha Harkness<\/a> giving Wanda a tour of her past. The first memory they revisit is one of the nights she and her family would watch tv shows to practice their English.<\/p>\n

RELATED: WandaVision Episode 8 Finally Reveal’s The Show’s True Villain<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the shows in their collection include I Love Lucy<\/i>, The Addams Family<\/i>, Bewitched<\/i>, Who\u2019s The Boss?<\/i>, I Dream of Jeannie<\/i>, Malcolm in the Middle<\/i>, and most importantly The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/i><\/a>. These sitcoms distract the family from the hostile war happening outside their window. They calmly discuss the meaning of the word \u201cshenanigan.\u201d Young Wanda describes it as a \u201cproblem that is more silly than scary but sometimes can be a little scary.\u201d Her dad says it is like \u201csilly mischief that always becomes fine.\u201d Wanda has a similar discussion with Vision in a later memory after the death of her brother Pietro at The Avengers Compound.\u00a0Wanda explains the reason she knows Hal in Malcolm in the Middle<\/i> is safe and will not be seriously injured. \u201cIt\u2019s not that kind of show,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Episode 8 is something of a love story between Wanda and another machine: television.\u00a0Sitcoms are\u00a0something present in almost all of Wanda\u2019s memories explored in this episode. Miraculously there is a TV set still running The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em> in the background while Wanda and her brother are at a standstill waiting with a Stark industries bomb in their house that turns out to be a dud. The Brady Bunch<\/em> is the only thing to keep her company when held in prison by Hydra. She watches TV in The Avengers Compound to distract herself from the recent death of her brother. Wanda uses television as a way to avoid dealing with the feeling of emptiness that comes from all of the tragedies in her life and we see at the end of this episode the way she quite literally escapes to a town that she transforms into versions of the sitcoms that meant so much to her.<\/p>\n

Wanda becomes a character who takes on the persona of a housewife from a 1950\u2019s sitcom. This kind of performative character plays differently in the current\u00a0era. There is something off about the unattainable happiness that characters of that time exhibited which explains the existence of a movie like The Stepford Wives<\/i>. The performance seems exaggerated and therefore audiences may wonder if there is something hidden that is a reason they are overcompensating.<\/p>\n

While this is not the intention in, say,\u00a0Bewitched<\/i>, there are glimpses of something closer to real life when Wanda breaks character due to conflicts that stand in the way of her escape such as Monica mentioning Ultron back in episode 3<\/a>. Whereas many shows from the \u201950s and \u201960s were created by men and portray in a sense their idea of a perfect housewife, WandaVision<\/em> uses the sitcom to show Wanda\u2019s repression and her desire to live as a peaceful perfect woman in a perfect peaceful town.<\/p>\n

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Even when the show explores later decades, Wanda may become more honest about her faults but they are still deflected through humor like when she speaks to the camera in episode 7<\/a> and brushes off the fact that she expanded the boundaries of her fantasy world.<\/p>\n

In episode 8, Wanda finally is able to put her past and her decision to escape into a fully realized world of television into context. Elizabeth Olsen is finally able to show more of her range as an actress as Wanda is finally free to feel and express her true emotions. Episode 8 shows that television was there for Wanda when no one else could be and that it is her oldest friend. It serves as a tool to distract which is helpful in some cases but the fantasy presented by television replaced reality for her and imprisoned her and others in a place where her past was always there waiting to haunt her.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to think that WandaVision<\/strong><\/em> was not intended to be the first Marvel show to be released on Disney Plus<\/a>\u00a0when it deals with the form of television in a fairly interesting meta-textual way. It\u2019s unclear if the finale will play with the sitcom form in any way or if it will become something like a miniature Marvel movie.<\/p>\n

MORE: WandaVision Uses A Live Audience To Capture The Feel Of A 50s Sitcom<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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