Liz Olsen and Paul Bettany are wonderful, especially when they are together. Agatha is entertaining-that wink! This is a hard to beat Disney+ MCU show compared to the others for several reasons...it's the first MCU show of its kind, it has good actors as leads, it took a giant risk, breaking away from the Marvel formula, and WandaVision progresses as a new decade of TV history, starting with the 1950s, for each of its own episodes, which was creative and enjoyable. Nevertheless, it is still a flawed show. The biggest problem with Disney Marvel is its ideology, which infects its character motivations and morality message. Wanda was wrong to hold an entire town captive to hold on to her own (false) reality of a happy family. You cannot justify such actions as moral or even excusable if you're going to be consistent. Wanda might justify them, but we the audience should not. What she did, no matter how justified she felt, resulted in the torture and suffering of hundreds of people, so she could escape her own grief. Yes, Wanda is broken. Yes, she is traumatized. Yes, she's been through so much that almost any normal person would crack under the grief and pressure. Yes, the chaos magic she gives off is sometimes outside her control. Yes, it was Agatha all along manipulating her. Yes, there are outside forces against her. However, Wanda ultimately made the choice to choose her false comfort and her imaginary family over reality and the freedom of others. This show also set us on the downward spiral 🌀 of the rest of MCU Phase 4-"dealing with consequences and grief." WandaVision, at times and with nuance, showed Wanda struggle with the morality of living in her dream world at a community's expense, but in spite of all that, there still were other times where I felt the overall POV was sympathetic towards Wanda to a fault. I do think the showrunners were attempting to make Wanda's demise a sympathetic tragedy, but it didn't totally land either bc it was too quick to shift the blame off Wanda's choices as an individual, mainly through how other characters responded to Wanda. Vision's response made the most sense until it didn't. Blaming everything else that brought her to that point of crisis was not a good take. Her situation and surroundings forcing her to choose the wrong decision was not acceptable. We know this because now hundreds of other people are damaged by her pain and grief. Wanda didn't make a sacrifice to set things right. She's not brave for what she did. She's a tragedy. She gave in to her own grief. She's not a hero for doing that. I can sympathize with her, but I shouldn't admire her either. If she were a hero, she would have made things right sooner when she realized that she was harming and controlling an entire community. Instead, she stalled and made excuses to be with her family. She stayed in denial and deluded herself. While this makes for an interesting story, where the morality message fails is how other characters respond to Wanda's actions. They should've not let her get away with what she did and been so dismissive. Peeking into the aftermath of this show with Doctor Strange 2: MoM, we see that the creatives at Marvel felt what Wanda did for her family and her grief was partly justifiable and "reasonable," according to Dr. Strange-"You set things right in the end." No, she didn't. Very bad choice-bad morals, motivations, and consequences. Doctor Strange should have challenged Wanda for what she did, given her a clear consequence, and the Vision should have also, which we sadly still haven't seen such a resolution between Wanda and Vision. What she did ultimately was wrong, and the message should have showed the audience more clearly that Wanda was becoming corrupted by her own desires, her own pain and grief, and later the Darkhold/witchcraft. I guess Dr. Strange 2 attempted to give us consequences for her actions, but within WandaVision the show itself, the consequences didn't fully make sense or weren't fully realized.