02-20-2021, 09:37 PM
(02-20-2021, 06:21 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: I just dunno, that's all I'm sayin'.
Every episode the sitcom world advances ten years, so it's only Bewitched for the second episode.
Whatever that thing is that is so appealing about Carol Burnett or AHS -- it's like kitsch juxtaposed to the human condition (?) -- is very present in Wandavision.
The recreation of golden age sitcoms alone is worth the price of admission, and Kathryn Hahn, who fucking kills as Wanda's "friendly neighbor", is going to have every hole in her body filled with an Emmy. As will, I suspect, Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Wanda, and somehow manages to absolutely nail every female lead in every sitcom you can think of, dating back fifty years, all while maintaining a thread of who her 'real character' is (a powerful witch trapped in an illusion and unable to fully regain her conscious mind, blah-blah-blah-marvel comics), and I really just can't even imagine what that would require from an actor.
Two of the things I like about it the most are: the absurd amount of creativity on display, and the fact that the cast is very clearly loving every minute of production. I love to see that, where actors are just on fire because they are in love with the script, and the premise, and the set pieces, and the level of production and care, etc.
The only unfortunate thing about it, in my estimation, is that it is connected to Marvel Comics, but I find that this world within a world is so beautifully and surreally realized that it's easy to just ignore whatever references are made to that larger context, and view it as a thing unto itself.
