I have to confess I'm not up to speed with the MCU at all. I think I watched the first Avengers movie years ago when it came out and just sort of never followed through, preferring instead to watch the Marvel TV series ("Daredevil", "Jessica Jones" etc) which I have generally found to be excellent. However with my penchant for classic American sit-coms, I was intrigued by the premise of this show and so, knowing nothing at all about the title characters I waded in to see where it would take me.

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Even though I knew nothing about the preceding back-stories for Wanda and Vision, I immediately warmed to the characters and was intrigued by their predicament, being stuck in the TV sit-coms of every decade since the 60's. So it was fun to pick the tropes out of those before inevitably the science kicked in and resolved everything for the MCU-ers out there.

It must have been nice for the actors too to walk in the footsteps of Lucy and Desi, Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler-Moore amongst others before the "Truman Show" aspect was stripped away and it became a good old-fashioned battle beween good and evil leading to Wanda's inevitable repeat sacrifice at the climax.

Obviously that reference to "The Truman Show" and of course not forgetting the marvelously original British TV series "The Strange World Of Gurney Slade" of the early 60's are just two reminders that the basic idea here isn't wholly original but the sinister twist in the tale and superior production values of today help to compensate for this.

I really liked the acting of the two leads and especially that of the nosey neighbour / wicked witch character. Yes, I was a little lost by the end as the denouement played out, but maybe that's a hint for me to go back and play catch up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I guess it would have been easy for the show-runners here to imagine up a conventional goodie v baddie series for the Vision and Scarlet Witch characters, so fair play to them for attempting this daring and innovative approach to the traditional superhero TV series.