'WandaVision' First Reactions: Weird, Funny Homage To Classic Sitcoms That Feels Unlike Anything In The MCU

With a new big superhero project about to be released, it is time for another round of initial social media reactions that may or may not be over-hyping what could end up being a just okay superhero story. But because it’s been over a year since we last got a Marvel movie, and because this is the first MCU TV show, it’s time to get weird and see what critics are saying about “WandaVision.”

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First things first, these reactions are based on just the first three episodes out of a nine-episode season, so it is very much a possibility that the show will go off the rails later in the season. With that in mind, it seems like this is the triumphant return of the MCU we were waiting for. Io9 critic Germain Lussier said the show is “weird & hilarious in ways Marvel has no right attempting,” while sprinkling “just enough mystery to keep you speculating and fascinated.” Meanwhile, FreshFiction critic Courtney Howard described the show as a “funny, sharply-tuned knockout.”

What the reactions have in common is that they note “WandaVision” is full of nods and references to classic sitcoms, both in tropes and in tone. Uproxx senior entertainment writer, Mike Ryan, said this could be a negative for certain audiences, “I do wonder what people will make of this who don’t have a working knowledge of, say, ‘Bewitched,'” even noting that “the b-plot of one episode is ‘Vision accidentally swallows gum.'”

But, the reactions aren’t entirely positive. /Film writer Hoai-Tran Bui compares the show to the work of David Lynch, but admits the show is slow-paced and too focused on a mystery “a tantalizing experiment with shades of Lynch that is almost irritatingly dedicated to slowly playing out its mystery.”

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Our own Rodrigo Perez wasn’t too enamored with the MCU show, admitting the three episodes sent to press felt slow-paced and part of a very incomplete story, to the point that it’ll be “trying for some audiences to sit through the sitcom silliness for weeks waiting for the actual story to start.”

“WandaVision” premieres with two episodes on Disney+ starting January 15, 2021 and will continue weekly after that.