The last episode of WandaVision we had the perspective of “Geraldine”, really Monica Rambeau, the daughter of Maria Rambeau from Captain Marvel (2019)! She is assigned by S.W.O.R.D. to investigate Westview, New Jersey and instead is sucked into the sitcom world created by Wanda Maximoff! On the other side, Dr. Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo try to determine the nature of the Westview bubble. We also found that when “Geraldine” mentioned Ultron, Wanda used her Scarlet Witch hex to toss her through walls and out of the sitcom bubble. She also seemed to snap into awareness seeing Vision return home in the ashen grey face with his Mind Stone ripped out by Thanos! Wanda quickly returns him into sitcom father and we were back with their new twins. 80’s sitcom Wanda is walking in with a crying baby Tommy. Vision walks down the stairs with a crying Billy. They set the babies down in their cribs and Wanda tries to use her powers to get them to sleep, but the twins keep crying.
They interrupted by aerobics outfit wearing Agnes, she has stopped by to help with the babies. It’s quiet while Agnes asks if she should hold the twins, Wanda looks confused, no laugh track. So Vision and Wanda give nervous laughs until Agnes laughs and the laughter and baby crying returns! Agnes tries to jazzercise the twins to sleep, but Vision is disturbed by the change. There is another cut of the laugh track and they find the twins are gone! It returns with the appearance of young boys, Billy (Baylen Bielitz) and Tommy (Gavin Borders) now! The sudden aging up of recast characters is classic sitcom! Agnes laughs it off. A new sitcom opening mirroring Family Ties with the family portrait drawing slowly colored by a paint brush. There is a new theme song, “We Got Love” and we see the family growing up in Westview. Then, we get S.W.O.R.D. Director Heyward questions Monica Rambeau about what happened in Westview. She recalls feeling the pain of Wanda before the medical examination is finished. Jimmy Woo and Dr. Darcy Lewis check in on her. The exam has come up with no results, it looks like for the moment, Monica does not exist. I like the dual narrative which brings up the sitcom world and the MCU one.
There is a briefing with all personnel by Heyward in what he calls the Westview Anamoly. Jimmy gives the overview of Wanda’s life, including her parents, Irina and Oleg Maximoff who were killed in an air raid in Sokovia. Heyward bends the presentation to the danger Wanda presented in Captain America: Civil War (2016). Even though Monica’s experience in the bubble was a “violation”, she doesn’t suspect that Wanda is a terrorist while her Brady Bunch character is shown on the WandaVision tv show. Heyward shows video from nine days ago of Wanda breaking into S.W.O.R.D. headquarters to take the remains of Vision. Jimmy wonders how Wanda could break him back without the Mind Stone. We return to the show, where Billy and Tommy are next to a kitchen sink filled with bubbles, Wanda enters and suspicious of her kids hijinks. Then, she finds a puppy in the sink, Vision also walks into the kitchen already human faced. We find that Agnes has also stopped by with a doghouse. Agnes mentions a name for the dog, it yips at a spark from an outlet, so she suggests Sparky. Wanda zaps up a Sparky collar which stuns Vision. He starts to question what is happening like Monica two episodes back.
Wanda and Vision want the kids to have a dog when they are ten, and they shift to that age!, Billy and Tommy now played by Julian Hilliard and Jett Klyne, Agnes doesn’t seem to notice. We know for certain that Agnes understands the bubble and is trying to keep the facade going. Back at the S.W.O.R.D. base, Jimmy is bringing in the coffee for his team, Monica has a plan for a mobile, fallout shelter so she can return to Westview. She wants to bring in Darcy who calls the anamoly a hex because of its hexagon shape. Jimmy notes that what Wanda may be doing is “unlimited power” like the Infinity Stone of Captain Marvel. Monica has a hunch based on what Darcy was saying about wardrobe. She walks over to the lab where there is her 70’s clothes, Monica takes out a gun to shoot the clothes, it deflects the bullets! Monica says that her Kevlar vest was transformed into the clothes. She wants to send in something maybe period appropriate. At Vision’s workplace, Computational Services Inc., he sets up a computer that amazes Norm. Vision dials up the computer, the classic, horrible dial up screech!, and gets an e-mail from Darcy Lewis in a S.W.O.R.D. communique that Norm reads and then all of the co-workers in a strange chant! This of course disturbs Vision, he is key to this madness.
Vision touches the computer and it shorts out, he hears Norm say, “None of this is real”, and touches his temples which restores the actual New Jersey resident! He suddenly wants to get back to his real life and says that Wanda is always in his head! This has shades of the Twilight Zone episode, "It's A Good Life" (1961). Vision restores “Norm” back to sitcom reality. Back at the home, Billy is teaching Sparky some tricks, the kids are confused that their father is gone on a Saturday. Wanda covers saying that Vision went to work on an emergency. Tommy and Billy are suspicious and also bring up if their mother has a brother. Wanda says, “he’s far away.” Sparky runs to bark at the door. Wanda heads outside to hear a helicopter. At S.W.O.R.D. base, Monica is piloting the 80’s era drone, and Darcy realizes that Wanda is editing out what she doesn’t want on the show. Her eyes glare red when Monica tries to speak through the drone. She is losing control of it when Director Hayward orders a “shot” fired on Wanda! The base is scrambled and agents lock laser sights on the breach of the Westview bubble! There is another shocking appearance at the end of the episode! It appears that Agnes may be keeping up the sitcom facade for Wanda, maybe she influenced Wanda in creating it, does she have an Infinity Stone or two?, but we will have to find out the truth of Agnes in a later episode!
Four Mind Stones out of Five!
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