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The shows biggest problems appear when they remember that oh, right, we're in the MCU, time to Build The Universe, here's a prophecy, here's a spinoff, here's some shit that Screenrant is going to turn in to five thousand articles that manage to say less than nothing but still push a suspicious agenda anyway.

In conclusion, Wandavision is a land of contrasts.

Final episode was a mess. The less thought given to the consequences the better (I guess the "power makes you unaccountable" theme has been explicit since Civil War). It looked like a DC TV show with a budget.

Overall I feel like the creatives involved got what they probably wanted out of the show, which was to spend some time with Wanda's grief, and show that in an interesting way.

Previously On is probably going to get a lot of love and I just can't feel it. Hahn looks bored, Olsen is trying her damnedest but flailing a bit, and my pro-all-actors tendencies lead me to lay this on the direction. It was a tough ask, trying to drag the audience through 20 minutes of franchise-necessitated exposition. I think they fell short.

I love Kathryn Hahn in just about everything. Loved her in this too. Then the reveal happened and (after Agatha All Along) she just started to look bored, and I wouldn't blame her. The character stopped doing anything at all interesting.

The last few episodes, in general, felt like a mess. The Pietro fake was hilarious, good job. The Agnes reveal was, you know, mechanically fine and all. I felt like that was kinda the point the series fell apart though. Dropped back into standard, early-MCU, time to throw special effects at each other, fare.

Teyonah Parris was great, and it's completely unsurprising she'll be showing up again. I guess in the Nick Fury/Talos thing. Kat Dennings was great. Randall Park was great.

They all kinda fell off the face of the planet in the last few episodes though. I get that it's Wanda's thing, and I kinda hate it myself when folks demand YOU MUST SHOW US EVERY LITTLE THING, that's how you get the ending to the LOTR trilogy, but ...

Now that it's all done.

I thought the premise was fun enough. I was mostly distracted from thinking Paul Bettany is a dickhead. I wish they'd done a bit more with it. Pretty often it felt like the gimmick was doing too much of the heavy lifting. Long winded way of saying it needed more jokes, I guess.