The trouble that WandaVision has, at the start, is that most 20something MCU fans aren't familiar with the sitcoms it mimics. There are clear nods to "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Bewitched," "The Brady Bunch," "Who's The Boss?" and "Family Ties" among a collection of references throughout this limited run series. But what Gen Z people ever sat through those programs? "The Office?" Well, okay, maybe that one.

Likewise, they toss in commercials that reference elements of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that would be missed by people unfamiliar with that aspect.

The fact is, you will grok the program if you are in either one of those "camps" (pun intended) but you'll truly love it if you somehow are in both.

Even more importantly, at the moment of its initial run, WandaVision served as a kind of metaphor for our collective lives.

Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen, not Montgomery) trying to surround herself with the things that make her comfortable is doing everything she can to protect her love, Vision (Paul Bettany) and their family and home. This gets accomplished through the standard Jump The Shark (can I still use that phrase?) tropes - wacky neighbor (Kathryn Hahn's Agnes) , pets and kids (Sparky, plus Julian Hilliard's Billy and Jett Klyne's Tommy), characters abuptly removed (Teyonah Parris' Geraldine) and even "Same Character, Different Actor" (Evan Peters' Pietro). But as soon as you think you're in complete control, you find out maybe you aren't.

Wanda's attempt to make things seem happy, normal and fun, despite the outside world infringing on and even frightening the main characters, speaks directly to the collective circumstances the world was experiencing as the COVID-19 pandemic continued, in a way that none of the creatives could have envisioned when the project was being designed.

WandaVision, in that sense, takes a very unique place in Television History both reflecting our lives and helping us escape them. The brilliance of everyone in the cast is made better by the fact that everything that happens in the narrative, needs to happen. The logic is flawless and the story told in that sitcom style fits like a jigsaw puzzle piece.

I'm not sure any Marvel fans will seek out episodes of sitcoms from a half century ago based on this, but it's an excellent way to indoctrinate their parents to the MCU!