So finally WandaVision has wrapped. This was my most anticipated of the Disney+ Marvel tv series, and I really enjoyed it.

Now we’ll be getting into the nitty gritty of spoilers for this review so I’d suggest if you haven’t watched Wanda-Vision, you should do so, but for those that have watched it or don’t care about spoilers we’ll dive right in.

So no Mephisto, and honestly, I’m fine with that. Any illusions I had about the character disappeared around episode three/four, I was momentarily going back to Mephisto in episode six, but that was quickly dashed with the reveal of Agatha Harkness.

One theory I didn’t have concerned the X-Men/ Mutants, and come on now, they aren’t going to waste an X-Men introduction with a side project. Furthermore, while Wanda was indeed introduced as a mutant in the comics, she has more of a presence in Avengers and magic related affairs. Her mutant heritage is only brought up when it concerns Magneto and has always been tertiary to the character.

The core of the story is Wanda’s grief. This is a character who has suffered tragedies and heartaches in her life; she lost her parents, she lost her twin brother, she was forced to kill her lover and then watch him die again because Thanos wanted Vision’s Macguffin.

The series main hook being the sitcom angle left people scratching their heads why this direction was chosen when the first trailers hit, and the reveal of them simply being a reminder of innocent times for Wanda makes sense with what we learn of her backstory and is rather heartbreaking at the same time. The sitcoms being something Wanda and her family would watch to learn English.

Speaking of the sitcom bits, the attention to detail for them is amazing, even small details like using a 4:3 aspect ratio for the first two black and white episodes and filming those episodes in front of a live studio audience. Lighting was different for each era with the 1950s to 1970s episodes making use of tungsten lights and then using LED lighting for the 2000s episodes. Additionally different period appropriate lenses were used as well.

Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are excellent. These two have been around in the MCU since 2015, but always as side characters; here not only do they get to broaden the characters of Wanda and Vision, but they get to flex their acting chops by adapting to performances of the different eras.

Teyonah Parris portrays the adult version of Monica Rambeau, the character who first appeared in Captain Marvel as a child. Monica’s story arc is much the same as Wanda’s, both dealing with grief in their own ways.

MCU alumni Kat Dennings and Randall Park return as Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo respectively. The pair make a great duo and work off Teyonah Parris really well and all three serve as audience surrogates watching Wanda-Vision themselves and being our real world anchors.

Evan Peters as the fake Pietro was a fun way of messing with the audience. The recast is supposed to be in reference to how sitcoms would recast roles with no hassle and to serve as another way of making the audience question reality (the same as the aspect ratio changing between Westview and the “real world”). As mentioned above, shoving X-Men into this show would’ve taken away from Wanda’s development, plus, do you really want the MCU to have all the baggage from the Fox X-Men series?

And of course there is Kathryn Hahn as the nosy neighbor Agnes, later revealed as the witch Agatha Harkness. Hahn is incredible in this series and is excellent at playing a witch having everything from the evil facial expressions and that classic witch cackle. Her theme song is also extremely catchy.

All the theme songs are perfect encapsulations of their various eras and most are insanely catchy (Agatha All Along, and the openings to episodes two and three in particular.)

Ultimately, WandaVision succeeds in granting more depth to both of its leads and gives Wanda a new trajectory as a character now that she has embraced her role as “The Scarlet Witch”.

Now for the future with some of the things the series has set up.

Wanda is now the Scarlet Witch, she is in possession of the ancient tome: the Darkhold. The Darkhold is pretty much “THE” big bad book of magic in the Marvel canon. It was written by a demonic elder god called Chthon and contains a variety of sinister spells. It was also the reason vampires exist in the Marvel universe and might serve as a backdoor for them in the MCU’s Blade movie.

Wanda studying this book definitely can’t have good consequences. What they may hold for her will most likely be revealed in Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness, where the character is expected to return.

Monica Rambeau gained her own set of powers after going back and forth through the Westview anomaly. These powers are similar to the light based energy manipulation abilities she has in the comics. The character has had a variety of superhero names including Captain Marvel, Photon, Pulsar and most recently, Spectrum.

Monica was approached by a Skrull at the end of WandaVision, most likely setting up an appearance in Captain Marvel 2.

We also have the white version of Vision running around. After confronting Wanda’s Vision (get it?), this version has his memories restored, but without that emotional context he isn’t quite the same one before the original’s death. Vision fled at the end of the series. Where he’ll turn up remains to be seen.

So that was WandaVision. As it stands, it is one of my favorite MCU properties. I was anticipating this series the most out of the MCU Disney+ series and was not disappointed. The only real negative I have is that parts of the finale felt a little rushed and I think it could’ve been about 10 to 15 minutes longer.

Scarlet Witch is a character I really enjoy, so giving her a spotlight series was an excellent treat.

WandaVision gets a 9/10.