Avengers Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) live as husband and wife in a sitcom format that changes decades and styles ever so often while dealing with minor conflicts that resolve at the end of a half-hour. However overtime cracks begin to form in the veneer making of this happy-go-lucky façade.

Wandavision is the first Marvel Studios series created for Disney+ as well as the first MCU television project to have direct ties to the mainline features after prior projects like Agents of SHIELD and various Netflix Defenders shows were mostly self-contained having little impact on the feature films and existing parallel to them. The series began development in 2018 as part of a directive to create several shortform streaming projects for Disney+ bearing the Marvel branding centered on characters in the MCU that had not fronted their own standalone projects. The idea of Wanda and Vision living in "Suburban bliss" was initiated by Marvel President Kevin Feige who wanted to use the series to explore the characters of Wanda and Vision as well as their relationship. Jac Shaeffer who was working on the long gestating Black Widow movie heard of the series and it's premise and excited by the prospects had a pitch meeting for her ideas leading to her hired as head writer. Upon release the series received near universal acclaim and became the most watched series premiere of a Disney+ series displacing previous record holder season two of The Mandalorian. The series definitely made an impression with viewers and is definitely worthy of praise.

The show does a good job of deconstructing and homaging sitcoms while also laying the groundwork for the mystery as to what is behind this world. While I can't reveal too much about the plot as it's one of those shows that's best experienced for yourself, I can say that beneath the sitcom antics that homage many staples tied to the decades from Ozzie and Harriet to Malcolm in the Middle, there's a unique commentary on the welcome artificiality of sitcoms and their service as a means of escape and distraction from the real world. The show does a great job of elaborating on the characters of both Wanda and Vision including exploring many elements of the characters that were overlooked in their introduction (such as in Age of Ultron) and while the show's peeling away at the veneer does lead to some very familiar MCU action beats, they're not bad even if the journey to them was more engaging than the ultimate destination.

I liked WandaVision for being a unique approach to the MCU and a solid character study of Wanda and Vision that really took advantage of Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as performers. The show also featured some solid appearances in the supporting cast (including a supporting Thor cast member who was way better here than in those films) and while the reveal of the proverbial "man behind the curtain" isn't as good as what came before this is a solid miniseries in its own right.