You captured everything I'm feeling about this show!!!! it would be much more enjoyable if it was truly funny and then made a dark turn. Everything just feels half assed
@benhanchett I definitely see where you're coming from, but I'm actually kind of into the weirdly unfunny jokes that are here now because it feels authentic to crappy sitcoms and also plays as surreal and slightly creepy. But I do agree that this approach feels half-assed!
@filmboicole >but I still assert this show would be much more interesting if it could be entirely sitcom.
It would be better if the show were entirely made of the worst parts? Lol
@the_argentinian to me, those are the most interesting parts! To each their own
@filmboicole This is exactly what I've been saying! The sitcom is the best part, and I actually sort of enjoy the first two episodes even without the creepy context.
@dastenhero there's definitely something endearing about them. The craft on display there is pretty neat, down to the retro-VFX and the mono sound.
@filmboicole That's just it! It's actually refreshing to see something done with passion and respect for the past. It awakens the purist in me.
@filmboicole totally agree. This was a missed opportunity to do something unique! The unimaginative by-numbers voices complaining endlessly on here are presumably a big part of the reason they didn't.
@tesbreag I can't necessarily blame them, even if I would have preferred it the sitcom way. It's a massive departure from Marvel style so this straddling of styles being somewhat controversial seems to track.
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I think I see the need for last episode now, but I still assert this show would be much more interesting if it could be entirely sitcom.
My issue is that I don’t entirely see this series as more than an experiment. As we see more and more, Wandavision is little more than doses of things we’ve seen elsewhere: Truman Show, Annihilation, Pleasantville, Inception. It makes for something decently interesting, but it brings up a branding problem that it feels as though it’s fighting really hard to course-correct. Marvel has built a brand mercilessly for nearly thirteen years now and although we were given the heads up that Phase 4 was going to get a little more out there, I’m not sure how this is correlating yet. When I think Marvel, I’m not sure something like Wandavision is what I’m expecting/wanting and yet when I think of weird, surrealist cinema Wandavision doesn’t really reach the depths of brilliance there either because it has to retain elements of the MCU when it could be David Lynch directs Marvel if they’d run with it.