WandaVision

⭐ 8.5/10

(Originally written by kaelwilton)

This is definitely the strongest content that Marvel has put out in a while. While it is still not without flaws, I thought it was really really good. Definitely a lot more experimental than their previous work, and it really payed off.

Let's start off with the positives. The performances from Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are absolutely phenomenal, like seriously, lets get these people some awards. Kathryn Hahn also deserves a shoutout. I absolutely loved the "sitcom" episodes, every single aspect of these were honestly perfect. The way they built suspense and tension in the early episodes was so good. The whole vibe to these episodes was so so good. I also really enjoyed how the series progressed. It started off as a bit of a slow burn (which is what I love), and that made the payoff at the end even more rewarding (I'm ignoring episode 4 here, as that episode was purely exposition dump).

Honestly, most of my issues from the show come from the outside world. Most scenes in the outside world basically served as exposition dump, where we would have one character or another basically explaining everything that is happening (sometimes even on stuff that had been previously established). Lots of the dialogue in the outside was honestly pretty cringey (also some of Kathryn Hahn's dialogue in the later episodes). One other issue is how they absolutely wasted Evan Peter's character.

Overall, despite these couple of flaws, I was very very entertained by this show. I love that Marvel is experimenting a bit more, and I am now excited to see where the MCU is going (truth be told, they had lost my interest for a while).