Well, this review is based on sitting through the first three episodes, so around 80 or 90 minutes of 'story', and almost nothing at all has happened so far.

It's fairly obvious that the premise for the show was taken/stolen from two sources: the 1998 movie Pleasantville, and one or two of the odder stand-alone episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (notice the Emma Caulfield cameo?). OK, and a smidgen of The Truman Show in there too. But whereas Buffy could make it work throwing reality-shifting left turns into a larger story arc, because of such strong and well-loved-and-established characters and the history we have with them, this one drops us into an appallingly boring parody of a bad TV show, with no-one to connect to or root for. These are two fairly minor characters in the Avengers movies, who we never got to really know or connect to there anyway, but here they are not even anything like THEM: neither of them shows any individuality or true feeling, or even reminds us of their big screen characters at all. And since the rest of the presented world is intentionally (and gratingly) artifical, that means we are watching just... nothing.

If they had set up a season or two establishing Wanda and Vision as recognizable individuals we can care for, then throwing them into this strange alternate world we want them to awake from, especially if it is also peopled by other characters we have a history with, then perhaps it could have worked. But THERE ARE NO CHARACTERS! Paul Bettany, especially, seems to be just reading the ridiculous script with no idea of anything that is going on and then trying out funny voices, but Elizabeth Olsen too just looks like she is sitting in on some random sketches on Saturday Night Live. There is an absolute absence of any actual story for the length of time of a full theatrical movie.

Admittedly, there are maybe two or three minutes in total where something unusual happens as the real world breaks in, but they are surrounded by an absolute ocean of interminable inanity, so one's patience is exhausted even after the first 10 minutes. No tension is built up, as the sit-com parts just run on and on and on and on and on and on and on with no subtext or clues to further events or depths beyond the stupid world they're trapped in. The makers seem to have thought people would lap up detailed reconstructions of Bewitched and I Love Lucy-type sitcoms from the past when remade without any charm or actual humour, but they misjudged this terribly, as most of the other reviews here show.

My thinking is it would have worked as a few issues of a long-established comic book, but it is as boring and drawn out a mess as has maybe ever been shown on TV as a miniseries. I would say I applaud them for trying something different, but as I pointed out at the beginning, there's nothing really original here at all, it's just an awful, yawning empty void, and I'm yawning right back.