But the bomb didn’t fail to go off out of sheer dumb luck.
Just as they explained to that genocidal robot Ultron, Wanda and Pietro crawl under the bed just before the second shell hits. Suddenly, it’s clear where Wanda was getting her source material for her own sitcom re-creations:Īs Wanda, Pietro, and their parents watch the show with glee, the first shell hits. Wanda has a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of Dick Van Dyke, but her father’s collection goes way deeper than that. It turns out that watching old American sitcoms was a Maximoff family tradition a fun way to learn English. Rather than sitting around a dinner table, the Maximoff family is huddled around a television set watching an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show. With just a wee bit of clever retconning to smooth away the six-year gap between the scenes, WandaVision replays that Age of Ultron story in full, while also showing how the event is buried deep into Wanda’s subconscious. And on the side of the shell is painted one word.Īs Pietro retells their tragic call to action, Wanda interjects with that one-word punch line: “Stark.” The twins add that they were trapped under that bed for two days waiting to be rescued or for Tony Stark’s missile to explode and kill them-but it never did. It just sits there in the rubble, three feet from our faces. I grab her, roll under the bed, and the second shell hits.
Our parents go in and the whole building starts coming apart. When the first shell hits, two floors below, it makes a hole in the floor. The scene is also a callback to the Maximoff twins’ backstory, which Pietro explains to Ultron in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron: For the first time, we glimpse Wanda’s parents, Iryna and Olek, as well as young Wanda, who is still happy and innocent before the first of many tragedies strike. As Agatha quips, the Maximoff residence has a “Cold War aesthetic,” with echoes of gunfire coming in from the streets of war-torn Sokovia. The first memory that Wanda and Agatha revisit is from Wanda’s childhood: the last time she and her brother saw her parents alive. What’s Really Happening? Sitcoms, Sokovia, and Stark Industries Screenshots via Disney+ (Meaning: She turns them all into ghoulish corpses, rather than, like, stars of The Irishman.)Ĭenturies later, Agatha’s quest for power continues as she tries to understand how Wanda was able to cast a spell strong enough to simultaneously take control of thousands of people and create an entire town of illusions a display of “magic on autopilot.” As Agatha holds Billy and Tommy ransom, she takes Wanda on a sad trip through some of the most important moments of Wanda’s life, as she attempts to solve the mystery of how the Scarlet Witch came to be.įor this week’s recap, we’re going to switch things up and break down each of those four memories, before checking in on Vision’s new look heading into next week’s season finale. However, Agatha’s witchcraft overwhelms the entire coven, as she seems to absorb their energy to de-age all of them. But instead of being captured by a horde of angry villagers, Agatha is being tried by a group of fellow witches who are attempting to bring her to justice after finding out that she’s been performing dark magic. The episode begins in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1693, in the midst of the infamous Salem witch trials. Despite appearing young in WandaVision, it turns out that she’s old- really old- like she is in the comics. Like many of the series’ very literal episode titles, this week’s installment is fittingly called “Previously On.” In it, Agatha and Wanda revisit some of the most crucial moments of Wanda’s life before finally unveiling how the Westview Anomaly came to be, while rewriting a proper origin story for the Scarlet Witch in the process.īut the episode also explains Agatha’s story. But picking up right where the last episode left off, WandaVision uses its penultimate episode to take Wanda deeper into the world of witchcraft. Up until this series, we’ve had to turn to outside materials to intuit anything about the character. This makes sense in the larger context of the MCU, which has placed little emphasis on Wanda’s character or the roots of her magical powers. Though we’ve all likely referred to Wanda as the Scarlet Witch at some point over the last half-decade, Agatha Harkness is somehow the first to ever do it in the MCU. After appearing in five films in Marvel’s Infinity Saga and eight episodes of WandaVision, Wanda Maximoff has finally been given a moniker to match her reality-bending abilities: the Scarlet Witch.
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