Chaos Walking: ‘WandaVision’ Episodes 5-8 Review

Due to the nature of the Internet and the Easter egg-laden material: SPOILERS will be placed at the end of each episode synopsis, separate from the episode recap. Episode 5: On a Very Special Episode… This one right here was quite literally the shot heard ‘round the world. The whole Internet was set aflame by the implications of the ending. All of the mystique built up from the first four episodes pays off in a huge way. Episode Five has WandaVision entering the 80s/90s era of sitcoms with the brilliant use of the Family Ties-type intro. Note: director Matt Shakman starred in the Family Ties spin-off Just The 10 of Us way back when. This episode is where things get real. Wanda’s sitcom world starts to show its seams, similarly, we gain more and more insight to the more insidious side of why and how the broadcast came to be. Darcy calls the ‘Maximoff anomaly’ “the hex”, a great callback to the Marvel publication history of Wanda’s powers as magic. The twins go through some ‘changes’. An unexpected guest arrives that changes the game for what fans of the MCU even thought was possible, and Wanda and Vision’s domestic bliss comes under fire. At this point, WandaVision has gone from meh to must-watch TV.

*Spoiler Corner* [Y’all. Quicksilver (played by Evan Peters) from Fox’s X-Men universe shows up as the Pietro Maximoff that Wanda conjures! Vision gets hella suspicious and realizes Wanda’s running the show and it gets heated! Monica’s MRI test comes back blank (Spectrum, I pr…