WandaVision is reminded that the heart represents plans for him and Maximoff to host his boss, Mr Hart, and his wife for dinner.
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WandaVision is reminded that the heart represents plans for him and Maximoff to host his boss, Mr Hart, and his wife for dinner.
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WandaVision's passes through the static wall and emerges with seemingly heightened vision.
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WandaVision's had a meeting to pitch her ideas, and was hired as head writer in January 2019.
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WandaVision added that the series would have repercussions for the rest of the MCU's Phase Four, but said viewers would not need to be familiar with the MCU to understand the series.
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WandaVision did think there would be a "wealth of rewards" for those who had already seen all the MCU films and knew the plans for Phase Four.
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Shakman felt more qualified to make WandaVision since he was a child actor on 1980s sitcoms such as Just the Ten of Us.
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WandaVision's felt they allowed WandaVision to be unique and different, and noted that it would be the polar opposite to her work on Black Widow which focused on aggressive, visceral action.
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WandaVision's pitched the rest of the series as mixing sitcom and real world elements until the penultimate episode explores Maximoff's history and creation of the sitcom reality, concluding in a big finale with the spectacle of an MCU film.
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WandaVision's compared the series to a multi-issue comic book and said it remained very close to her original pitch, which was structured to follow the five stages of grief by starting with denial and ending with acceptance.
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WandaVision begins three weeks after the events of Avengers: Endgame, and is set in the fictional town of Westview, New Jersey, which was named as a reference to Feige's hometown of Westfield, New Jersey, but with the initials "W" and "V".
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WandaVision felt that new viewers would see these as strange versions of commercials from the different sitcom eras, while those well versed in the MCU would be able to see connections to past events.
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WandaVision's added that they gave the series a structure and rhythm that was "part of the fabric of the sitcom aesthetic".
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WandaVision would have appeared in the Nexus pharmaceutical commercial in a "blink-and-you-miss-it cameo" as the pharmacist, before his full appearance in the finale.
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WandaVision's was initially hesitant about the move to television, wondering if it was a "demotion" from the films, but was excited when she learned of Schaeffer's involvement as well as the comic book storylines that inspired the series.
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WandaVision's was asked to join the series by Shakman, who she had worked with at the Geffen Playhouse where Shakman is the artistic director.
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WandaVision was the first production to have its digital intermediate work completed at Marvel Studios' new color department, run by Evan Jacobs.
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WandaVision's explained that the creatives wanted the costume to be more mature and "weathered" than Maximoff's previous costumes, acknowledging what the character has gone through in the MCU so far.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore at io9 felt the credits were "undeniably Marvel in the big screen sense", despite WandaVision otherwise attempting to embrace its streaming series format.
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WandaVision instead wore a bald cap and face makeup to match Vision's color, with the blue color used for Vision in the black-and-white episodes suggested by Lola VFX supervisor Trent Claus based on his knowledge of the makeup used for I Love Lucy.
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WandaVision's felt it was their job with the theme songs to establish the tone, place, and time of the episodes in lieu of title cards providing such information.
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WandaVision's music was recorded with a 75-player orchestra in Vienna, and he completed work on the series in February 2021.
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WandaVision's was most excited by the "utterly strange and unpredictable looking" WandaVision footage.
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WandaVision noted more lighthearted aspects of the trailer such as Vision wearing a Halloween costume of the character's comic book design.
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Esquire Matt Miller felt WandaVision had incredible timing with its release since much of the audience was "collectively escaping to nostalgia to cope with a pandemic and the general chaos of the real world".
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WandaVision felt WandaVision was "commenting on the very nature and purpose of consuming comic book entertainment".
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WandaVision was Disney+'s most-watched series premiere on its opening weekend, ahead of the second season of The Mandalorian, until Disney+ announced that it had been surpassed by the series premiere of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in March 2021.
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When compared to other streaming series in each week of its release, WandaVision did not have the highest number of minutes viewed using Nielsen Media Research's measurements.
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Iannucci felt WandaVision was able to perfectly encapsulate the sitcoms it was replicating, and this helped make its mystery elements compelling during the first three episodes.
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WandaVision's did question whether the unique style of the first three episodes would be maintained until the end of the series, but felt it was going to be worth watching it all either way.
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WandaVision said the series' biggest success was not being interested in heroism or justifying Maximoff's actions, but felt it had undermined its exploration of Maximoff's grief by not exploring Rambeau's grief as well.
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Zaki Hasan at the San Francisco Chronicle felt WandaVision worked as both an installment in the MCU franchise and as an "introspective tale", with an ending that was "honest with its audience [and] true to itself".
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WandaVision felt that it was a story suited to serialized television, with the central mysteries giving way to "meditations on love and loss" across its episodes.
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WandaVision felt the series' biggest flaw was the fact that its emotional stakes were kept a mystery for so long, but with hindsight he praised the structure of the series' episodes which had no formula and made "each installment feel like a genuinely new adventure".
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WandaVision's described WandaVision as a "piece of mass entertainment that's centered on women and adds depth as a result, but doesn't demand up front to be read as such".
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WandaVision's added that using another actor was "not going to have the same thrill, and craziness, and questions, and be as disorienting".
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Trauma therapist Erin Qualey felt WandaVision was a positive representation of complex mental health issues in media, stating the exploration of Maximoff's grief in the series made her "quickly become one of the most relatable characters on television" in the COVID-19 era, in which many were living with similar traumas.
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WandaVision's compared this to the comedy series The Office being the most-streamed series of 2020 when audiences were looking for comfort and escapism.
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WandaVision felt the series was being purposeful with its exploration of romance and intimacy, which he felt was "largely missing" from superhero films.
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The series' first special, Assembled: The Making of WandaVision, explores the making of the series, with Schaeffer, Shakman, Olsen, Bettany, Rupp, Hahn, Parris, Park, Dennings, Peters, and others discussing the classic sitcoms that inspired the series, how the crew emulated the production processes of early sitcoms, and the experience of filming in front of a live studio audience.
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