Our MCU podcast officially kicks off with WandaVision Episode 1, “Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience”! Vision and Scarlet Witch are trapped in a strange, ’50s sitcom world with no clear way out. We break down our reactions to the first episode of the series, as well as plenty of speculation what exactly is going on, when this takes place in the Marvel movie timeline, and Easter eggs from the comics — and movies.



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Full Episode Transcript:



Alex:                 What is up, y’all? Welcome to MarvelVision, a podcast about the MCU, and specifically, the kickoff of the MCU on Disney Plus, big deal. First episode of WandaVision, we’re talking about all of it right now. I’m Alex.



Justin:              I’m Justin.



Pete:                I’m Pete.



Alex:                 And this is very exciting. We did a preview episode for this, but we are officially getting into it now. Two episodes of WandaVision launched on Disney plus today, we’re going to talk about them individually, so check pretty soon for our second podcast talking about the second episode. But I think there’s a… I want to go to a bunch of different directions here. First of all, I want to say, for anybody who is watching this or listening to this podcast, definitely watch the episode first. We’re not going to do a complete recap or anything like that. We’re going to talk broad strokes about feelings about it. I know we have some differing opinions about-



Justin:              We’ll see. There could be some different takes in here just based on our faces.



Alex:                 Potentially, how traumatized some of us are, or not.



Justin:              Or exuberant.



Alex:                 But also, we’re going to talk about specific plot points. Obviously we’ll speculate about it. We’ll talk about potential comic book origins, though that’s going to be a tough one I think with this one.



Justin:              Dicey.



Alex:                 Yeah, a little bit dicey. Let’s start with you, Justin. Well, just to get broad strokes about this episode, this is like the 50 sitcom episode, it’s very Bewitched, I’d say. I’m not very versed, honestly, in old sitcoms.



Justin:              I feel like it was Bewitched, Dick van Dyk.



Pete:                I would say Leave It To Beaver as well, type of thing.



Alex:                 Yeah. So this is something we talked about a little on the preview episode, something that they did with the show, which I think is really fascinating, is they tried to film each episode like the time period they’re in. So this was filmed in front of a studio audience, they did the effects just naturally the way that they would do them at that time period, and the thing that I would say that I was really impressed with with this episode is I feel like they wrote the jokes and they structured it exactly how they would for that time period as well.



Justin:              Truly, I mean, we’ve talked over the years a lot about how the Marvel films, they take a genre and really play the genre and then lay the superhero specifics on top of it. So you get your original Captain America movie, you get your Guardians Of The Galaxy that feels like the fun space romp. All of them use the genre to its most extreme or to its utmost and helps them with the storytelling, and this is like an even harder commitment to that in the television world. This was an episode of this type of TV show, it was perfectly milk toast. And I mean that as a compliment, the jokes, those are real jokes that the writer’s room of an actual sitcom in the fifties would be trying to make the same level of jokes, same style of joke. It’s not mocking the format, it’s doing this perfect translation of it, which I thought was a wild choice. That is a wild tonal choice.



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