WandaVision is Marvel Studios' first venture into television that is exclusively made for Disney+, the story picks up sometime after Avengers: Endgame with Wanda and Vision living in a quaint suburban area, however, they begin to suspect that not everything is as it seems. WandaVision stars Elizabeth Olsen as the titular character Wanda Maximoff alongside Paul Bettany who plays her love interest, Vision.

Like most, seeing the teasers to WandaVision left me very curious - Why is it in black and white? What is with the old 50/60's styled sitcom? How is Vision alive? - while all those questions were eventually answered, the show was of interest to me (even as someone who doesn't claim to be the biggest fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe). After getting a taste of the two's romance in previous MCU films, it is no surprise that Olsen and Bettany play well off each other - Wanda, the compassionate one that just wants to live a quiet life with a nuclear family and Vision, the calculated and philosophical love interest who always tries to do the right thing. The pair's chemistry is believable, and helps to move the story along even as things start to become more and more strange. There is a sense of mystery to the early parts of the show, one that is intriguing and promotes many questions, as was seen across different social media platforms each week, with fans trying to uncover what exactly was going on in Westview. Although all is explained near the latter half of the series, it may not satisfy those with creative theories. I for one didn't mind where the plot went, I thought it made sense and without spoilers paints the character of Wanda as a tragic figure, whereby her actions are understandable however easily scrutinized.

Now where my biggest problems lie with the show, has to be with its B plot and climax. I understand the secondary story is vital to explaining what's going on with the outside world, however, I never really found it to be all that interesting; in fact, I found it to really divert the momentum at points and take me out of the experience, leading to times where I felt like I was checking the time more often than I should and that is no more apparent than in episode 5 of the show. Some of my least favourite moments were when the story shifted outside of Westview and I found the clarification as to how the real world bled into the other world to be fairly anticlimactic, given what was set up. Speaking of the climax, the final episode to WandaVision really lost me - I had enjoyed the twist and some of the explanations given as to what was going on up to that point, but it wouldn't be the MCU if the pinnacle point in the story didn't divulge into a sequence of CGI action. I wish the show could have wrapped up in a quiet, less chaotic way than it did, I understand it was leading to a conflict however that conflict just ended up being the marvel trope of loud, brightly coloured action and that was frankly disappointing. It doesn't totally ruin the show, but it does detract from the overall experience considering what the show had built up.

Overall WandaVision was a decent ride, I loved the technical features of the show with transitioning between various aspect ratios and the little attention to detail given to what time period the episodes were paying homage to. It is a well-crafted show to a point; the story is intriguing and what it sets up has a satisfying enough pay-off, even if some of the plot points to get there are monotonous and the climax rather is underwhelming. I still do recommend WandaVision, it is a sufficiently good show that I'm sure will lend itself to the greater MCU story at hand and for that reason, I am giving WandaVision a 7/10.