WandaVision Needs More Surrealism
Disney Plus’s new Marvel show WandaVision promises a surreal spin on a 1960s sitcom reality. But so far, it’s delivered little more than winks and nods to Marvel Cinematic Universe loyalists.
Still from WandaVision. (Marvel Comics Universe / Disney Plus)
There’s an old Simpsons episode in which the family is watching Garrison Keillor on television reading aloud from Prairie Home Companion. The Simpsons are bored but the TV audience breaks out in laughter at everything he says.
“Maybe it’s the TV,” Bart says. “Stupid TV,” Homer says, pounding the top of the television. “Be more funny!”
That was my response to the first two episodes of WandaVision, the new Marvel Studios show on Disney Plus. The show didn’t even have to be more funny, necessarily, just more something — and whatever that something might be, it should really pick up the pace.
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