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    'WandaVision': The Next Era Of The MCU Will Be Televised

    The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been downsized to fit the television screen — and pay loving, sharply observed homage to TV sitcoms of different eras in the process.
    by Glen Weldon Jan 15, 2021 4 minutes
    In Disney+'s <em>WandaVision</em>, Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) find themselves in a disturbing situation ... comedy.

    It's been a while since we saw the logo of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — those fast-flipping comics pages, that stirring anthem of strings and brass and clashing cymbals — and I'm pleased to report that it retains its power to act as visual appetizer, whetting our collective palate for the mix of iconic, larger-than-life, vibrantly colored acts of selfless heroism, cosmic stakes and petty intra-hero squabbling that is the Marvel brand.

    It's tacked to the opening of all nine episodes of , the Disney+ series that finds Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and a mysteriously reconstructed Vision (Paul Bettany's character died at the end of, you will be forgiven for not remembering) starting a quiet life in the suburbs — the suburbs of 1950s America, in particular: tract houses, subdivisions, cul-de-sacs and white picket fences.

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