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• The title "WandaVision" is a pun: it not only couples the names together (Wanda+Vision) but it reflects that Wanda is trying to recreate her own vision of how her life should/needs to be, from her view.
  • And as she draws from television shows, she's made her life a WandaVision show. This is proven by how Wanda pronounces the title like how one would pronounce the word television in the Previously on… in each episode.
  • It also foreshadows the reveal that the Vision in this show is not the same Vision from the movies, having been created when Wanda created the Hex. One might differentiate the two Visions by referring to him as Wanda!Vision vs the original Tony!Vision.
• The "commercials" in the middle of the episodes seem to be parallels to Wanda's past, specifically relating to her traumas, hammering in that Wanda is in control of the Hex to some extent, subconsciously theming commercials off random concepts of her past. It could also be a reference to Nightmare, a Doctor Strange villain hellbent on inducing and thriving off people's fears. They also seem to be referencing the Infinity Stones; moreover, they seem to be referenced in the chronological order of known adventures they've featured in.
  • The first is for the Toastmate 2000 by Stark Industries, which beeps ominously, has a blinking red light, and takes forever to pop off. Just like one would imagine the Stark Industries bomb that almost killed her and Pietro when they were kids, and set them on their path. The toaster even makes a sound that sounds exactly like one of Tony’s repulsors.
    • The light on the Toastmate 2000 blinks a bright red despite it being in black and white. This links to Wanda's Chaos Magic but it also seems to reference the Reality Stone, which in turn, foreshadows the true nature of this show.
  • The second episode is for a Strucker watch, referencing HYDRA leader Baron von Strucker. He was the one who experimented on Wanda and Pietro, and was subsequently taken down by the Avengers at the start of Age of Ultron. The watch even has the HYDRA logo on its face, which the camera zooms in on, with the scene cutting to black with the sound of a cell door slamming.
    • It may be a coincidence, but the first clip showing the watch, it seems to be set to 9:11, the same number for emergency services in the United States. Wanda and Pietro volunteered for Strucker's experiments, hoping he could help them get revenge. Or maybe, as noted by Jac Schaeffer, it's Wanda trying to make a subconscious cry for help by anyone picking up the broadcast.
    • The watch seems to be referencing the Time Stone. We don't know exactly when Agamotto created the Eye from the Stone, but it was likely only a couple thousand years ago.
  • The third commercial is for "Hydra Soak" bath soap and as anyone familiar with Winter Soldier/Civil War or Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. know, HYDRA enjoyed using brainwashing techniques on unwilling subjects like Bucky. It can also be an allusion to Wanda's own mental manipulation abilities that have not had a lot of focus or use since Age of Ultron. Finally, the announcer promotes the product saying "escape to a world all your own, where your problems float away", the phrasing bringing to mind what happened to Sokovia.
    • The blue cube-shaped box seems to be referencing the Space Stone. The Tesseract was kept in Tønsberg for centuries, possibly as far back as the tenth century, and resurfaced in the 1940s with Captain America.
    • The "4ozs" located on the bottom left corner of the packaging box doesn't really need the "s" in the end since ounces is often abbreviated as "oz". However, "4ozs" contains organisms called "synthetic construct". The word fits well with Westview's state inside the Hex as well as what Westview Vision really is, an artificial being created by Wanda's magic from both Mind and Reality Stones.
  • The fourth commercial is for Lagos paper towels, with the slogan being “For when you make a mess you didn’t mean to” which is referring to when Wanda accidentally threw Crossbones’ exploding body into a building full of Wakandan humanitarian workers in Lagos during the beginning of Captain America: Civil War which was used by the UN as an excuse to push the Sokovia Accords on the Avengers. Also this paper towel advertisement may be Wanda's way to try and clean up her bloody past, with one of the liquids being cleaned up looking very similar to dripping blood.
    • The last liquid seen being spilled in the commercial is a light orange colored beer. The Soul Stone was put into the possession of the Red Skull on Vormir shortly after the Tesseract teleported him there at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger in 1945. More thematically, the episode where this commercial appears portrays precisely the challenge of dealing with grief over losing loved ones (Sparky the dog for Tommy and Billy, and indeed Vision and Pietro for Wanda)—the thing one must undergo to get the Soul Stone.
  • The fifth commercial portrays (albeit twistedly-humorous) a hungry child which eventually starves to death, despite the Yo-Magic shark offering him a yogurt pack he cannot open. One wonders, especially with the warped flashbacks to Wanda and Pietro's childhood (of supposedly trick-or-treating in impoverished Sokovia), how much of this harkens to her own impoverished and deprived childhood.
    • While the Yo-Magic yogurt is supposedly strawberry flavor, the logo decidedly has a more purplish hue, seemingly referencing the Power Stone. Similarly, the Power Stone seems to be the most volatile/ravenous for organic matter/living flesh (as has been demonstrated by any other lifeform that touched it that isn't Thanos)—much like the shark mascot that sells it to the audience. The Power Stone was kept on Morag for millennia until it was stolen by Peter Quill (who had red hair and a red jacket) in 2014.
    • The child is also stranded on a desert island, much as Wanda was imprisoned on the Raft in Civil War.
    • It may also reference the fact that Vision can't survive outside the Hex created by Wanda's magic, as he immediately starts falling apart the moment he breaks out.
    • Both Agatha and Hayward want Wanda's power for their own ends (and therefore are both "sharks"): for Agatha, it's to increase her abilities, with the "castaway" shriveling into nothing due to her Mana Drain, and for Hayward, it's to revive Vision, with his disregard to the "castaway"'s state after baiting them, despite Wanda's increasingly futile attempts to access the magic needed. Note that purple is Agatha's signature color.
  • The sixth (and final, given that we’ve reached the end of the sitcom decades) commercial is for Nexus anti depressants, with side effects being feeling your feelings, confronting your truth, seizing your destiny, and more depression. This commercial represents as a whole Wanda’s mentality for creating the Hex, with all that she’s doing to create a temporary happy life with her and Vision just leading to more depression down the line.
    • The word Nexus is commonly used to refer to a hive mind or everything being connected. The pill is also seen to be red with yellow text, much like Vision has a red body with the yellow Mind Stone powering him. The Mind Stone “created” both Wanda and Vision, connecting them in a way.
    • "Nexus" is also possibly a Call-Back to the origins of Vision. Right before Vision was created, he spent a period of time within the NEXUS Internet Hub, stopping Ultron from accessing nuclear codes.
  • As Episode 8's trip through Wanda's memory shows, the appearance of each commercial roughly happens in chronological order of Wanda's experiences. The only exception to this is Lagos paper towels, which "happens" between Yo-Magic and Nexus.
    • The ToastMate 2000 commercial occurs in the middle of the episode spoofing The Dick Van Dyke Show, just as the bomb did during the Maximoffs' viewing of the real thing.
    • Wanda becomes part of Strucker's experiments (the Strucker Watch); one test of which "unleash[es] the goddess inside", with the "goddess" appearing with floating hair and all (Hydra Soak). She's also watching The Brady Bunch around the latter event, whose spoof episode is when the Hydra Soak commercial appears.
    • Yo-Magic, the commercial with the darkest humor, occurs in the spoof of the show where Wanda teaches Vision that something normally horrifying (like a man trapped underneath rubble or a kid wasting away to a skeleton) isn't so bad because "it's not that kind of show".
    • The Nexus commercial, where the narrator questions if you really aren't in control of the world, happens in the closest point in time to the present, just as Wanda's grief-induced wave was the closest point to WandaVision as we see it in Episode 1.
• The first couple episodes have scenes in the 'real' world of the MCU after the sitcom episode wraps up. While these scenes are before the real credits, they are after the fake ones of the Show Within a Show - they're The Stinger!
  • This makes even more sense if you put in that Pietro appeared after the credits of the show finished in "On a Very Special Episode" since it's usually after The Stinger when we get a hint to another movie via a character.
  • Most of the post in-universe credits scenes take place entirely in the world outside the Hex - the MCU itself is using its own conventions to assert itself. And as of episode 7, there is a proper, after the real credits Stinger, as the MCU has started gaining traction in its fight against the Hex.
• Wanda must've put a lot of effort into coming up with names for all the "cast" and "crew" in the fake closing credits to each "episode". But seeing how the "characters" of her "show" are just Westview residents acting out roles, it's safe to assume that those names seen in the "credits" for the first and fifth episodes are the names of actual Westview residents.
• The closing credits are made out of red, green and blue TV dots. Red is for Wanda, green is for the Vision and blue is for the Mind Stone that made them both ^note It was originally blue, then it was revealed to be an exterior shell, and its actual color is yellow.
  • Blue might also be for S.W.O.R.D. or for Monica Rambeau, since both have been heavily associated with blue.
  • It's also a reference to the three colours used in real TV screens: red, green and blue.
• Vision keeps Paul Bettany's British accent and generally the same personality as he does in the real world, despite being in an America sitcom setting, because Wanda likes Vision the way he is. On the downside, Wanda doesn't have her accent or her general personality because she wants to separate herself from her actual life as much as possible.
  • In the middle of Episode 5 when she leaves the Hex to confront Hayward about the drone strike, her Sokovian accent (notably weaker in Infinity War) is on display, meaning her accent within Westview is part of her act as an all-American sitcom wife.
• Throughout the Show Within a Show of WandaVision, Wanda is predominantly focused on living life in the now and thinking about the future, rather than reminiscing about previous events. The fact that she can't answer simple questions such as how she met Vision and where they came from seems to indicate that Wanda is literally incapable of thinking about her past, as though she's intentionally creating distance from what has actually happened in her life, similar to what the above idea discusses.
• Why does Wanda never use her powers against Vision, even though he questions her? While it seems like Wanda brainwashed an entire town out of her own denial (even a little selfishness), her love for Vision is pure. In this sitcom illusion, it almost seems like Vision is Wanda’s conscience. For example, when Mr. Hart was choking, Wanda didn’t save him herself (even if she easily could). She told Vision to do it.
  • It's around episode 5 where this starts to become apparent. Vision catches on to more breaks in the false reality of the Hex. Rather than wipe Vision's mind of those glitches, Wanda instead tries to talk her way out of the argument.
• The very name of the town. Westview. Given that Wanda grew up in Eastern Europe during an extremely volatile time period, this saccharine Dom Com world is likely how she grew up viewing life in the West.
  • Westview and WandaVision. Both compound words with each component starting with W and V. This town is the perfect spot for the Hex.
  • Episode 8 also shows that Vision originally planned to move to Westview with Wanda before the events of Infinity War.
• The general level of self-awareness exhibited by the Westview townsfolk increases by "decade", matching up with how commonplace meta humor and other metafictional elements were in mainstream television of the time.
  • In the 1950's, the characters mostly stick to their roles. Despite having an actual Studio Audience that they can play to, the fourth wall is rarely breached and makes for a genuine surprising moment the one time it happens, when Mr. Hart nearly chokes to death on the strawberry.
  • In the 1960's, the rules are fudged with a little. While there's no studio audience anymore, breaches of the setting get more blatant here and are dealt with using camera editing techniques, which acknowledge the presence of the outside world but try to keep things "in continuity".
  • The 1970's was generally marked by change-ups to established status quo of the day, so the Westview residents displaying more self-awareness than Wanda thought was possible matches up. This is also the episode that features a literal fourth wall break, followed by a massive lampshade.
  • By the 1980's, Leaning on the Fourth Wall and meta humor is so normalized that questioning Wanda's reality can be done in the first few minutes of the show alone. Norm and Vision get more in-depth on how the Hex controls them, and attempts to "stick to script" are visibly breaking down.
  • The Turn of the Millennium has the flimsiest fourth wall of the dom coms, as it turns Fake Pietro into a Meta Guy and the twins into audience-consulting narrators. More people are shown on-screen breaking character, and Black Comedy Burst references to the "real world" keep seeping through, such as Pietro and Wanda's discussion on the past and how previous events are mentioned. The removal of the Laugh Track coincides with both its reputation as a tired cliche among TV buffs around the late 90's-early 00's and Wanda's loosening grip on the Hex, while the characters' open speculation on their situation matched the rise of the internet and TV show forums.
  • The episode taking place in the late 00's/The New '10s gives up entirely on the fourth wall. Everyone openly acknowledges both the archetypes they're forced to play and the fact that "they're in a show". Directly talking to the fourth wall via Confession Cam is a common device, and while the mockumentary sitcom format gives the most freedom (realistic diction, interacting with the crew, outbursts that can happen at any time), it's still just as scripted as previous formats and only serves to heighten how unreal the Hex is.
  • The scenes set in 2023 fit as well, as many recent sitcoms play fast and loose with the fourth wall as well as (by then) established sitcom archetypes. The people from outside Westview regularly comment on what's going on in the sitcom reality, and those from outside directly interfere with their real-world knowledge, similar to period-based genre spoofs with deliberate anachronisms.
• Pietro's involvement in the show kind of meshes with Peter's appearances in the Fox X-Men movies, at least in a sense. In the seventies, Pietro is mentioned. Days of Future Past, which takes place in the seventies, was Peter's first ever time being brought into those movies. In the eighties, he is built up and then finally appears in an unexpected way, sort of like in X-Men: Apocalypse when Peter is built up to unite with his father Magneto, but joins the X-Men instead. Finally in the nineties, Pietro will start as a part of Wanda's world, sort of like how he started Dark Phoenix as an established X-Man. However, as we actually see in episode six, the episode parodies Malcolm in the Middle, a show starting in the year 2000. A common complaint of Dark Phoenix is that there's really no reason to set it in the nineties besides decade hopping being a common theme of the newer films, and could be indistinguishable with any other time period. Even in episode seven, his surprise appearance at the end can be compared to his (and the rest of the X-Men's) cameo in Deadpool 2.
• The transition to more modern, cynical styles of sitcom, and the growing number of glitches within the Hex, runs in direct parallel to Wanda's deteriorating mental state. She starts her adventure as an idealized '50s housewife, but as it grows increasingly difficult to paper over the seams in the world, she starts turning into a modern, cynical sitcom housewife who's increasingly frazzled by her job.
• Every time Wanda starts the Previously on… recap by saying “Previously on WandaVision”, her enthusiasm slowly drops in every episode, which reflects her growing inability to control the Hex and how frazzled she’s becoming. Compare the opening recap of Episode 2 to Episode 7 and it becomes very obvious that Wanda is losing her grip.
  • Also, each new episode jumps the characters to the next decade. Each episode brings Wanda a decade closer to reality. Wanda probably knows on a subconscious level that as she goes through the decades, she's getting closer and closer to reality.
• There are quite a few hints that Agnes is Agatha Harkness before the reveal in episode 7:
  • Her pet rabbit is named Señor Scratchy. Witches are known for worshiping The Devil. Now what’s another nickname for The Devil? ^note  Old Scratch
    • It can also be noted that in the comics, Agatha has a son named "Nicholas Scratch".
  • Agnes' husband Ralph may be referencing Mephisto. It wouldn't be the first time a man named Ralph (Cifaretto) was the devil in disguise.
  • In the first episode, Agnes makes a joke about how the only way her husband Ralph would remember their anniversary is if there was a beer named June 2nd. Agatha Harkness is a witch who’s been around since the Salem witch trials, which began on June 2nd, 1692.
  • What is the brand name of the chewing gum Vision accidentally swallows? Big Red. And to further highlight it, the second episode is evoking the '60s, while Big Red wasn't made until 1975.
  • Agatha's comments about Ralph looking better in the dark and him spraying lavender on her every night (an herb commonly used in witch's potions, which, combined with Agatha looking for alcohol in Wanda's house, and her having a shrubbery full of azalea leaves which again is used in potions, ends up looking very suspicious), in Episode 4 and Episode 5 respectively, just add more fuel to the fire.
  • In Episode 6, the Halloween episode, she's literally dressed as a witch.
  • In general, the "nosy neighbor"/Drop-In Character makes for a convenient cover identity for a Faux Affably Evil villain: You're underestimated as being quirky/annoying but harmless, you can show up anywhere anytime to distract or manipulate the protagonists and it's just accepted, no one looks too closely at your background or drops by your house unexpected...
  • She apparently picked her pseudonym by just mashing together the first and last syllables of her real full name: Agnes = Agatha Harkness.
• Wanda made a bad first impression in Avengers: Age of Ultron due to the fact that she believed that brainwashing the Avengers, including those who had nothing to do with her parents dying, was suitable revenge on Tony Stark and didn't show remorse for causing Hulk to rampage in South Africa. The later film installments made up for this by showing Wanda's remorse over causing the explosion in Lagos and the reality of her being a superpowered being without an American visa: becoming a fugitive from the law and briefly estranged from her romantic partner. We finally get the culmination of both sides of her in this show: Wanda's moral ambiguity married to good intentions is seen in full force here so that we get Warts and All. She doesn't mean to cause trouble here, and is in denial at first that her reality is far from the perfect sitcom she's imagining but the actual good guys — Monica and a recreated Vision — decide to try and reason with her first rather than actively demonize her (Hayward) or manipulate her (Agatha).
• Darcy nicknames the Westview anomaly "the Hex" based on the hexagonal shape of its barrier, giving the phenomenon and name a sci-fi flavor similar to The Matrix. But the word "hex" also refers to a magic spell or curse, which turns out to also apply so well to what's happening in Westview that Agatha, an old-school Salem-witch-trial witch, gets involved to figure out the secret behind it.
• Wanda's Reality Warper powers often take the form of video effects like "rewinding" a scene to try it again a different way. After the first time we see it, it changes to a choppily edited effect giving the impression of a lagging or glitching video stream, giving viewers the initial impression that they're seeing something in real life rather than part of the show. This in turn leads to some of the more unusual editing choices in the "real world" segments becoming part of the presentation, like Hayward's heel status being foreshadowed by Darcy's Curse Cut Short crashing into one of his lines of dialogue.
  Woo: I try not to speak ill of people...
  Darcy: Then allow me. Hayward's a-
  Hayward: -terrorists.
  • Another fun effect is that it becomes hard to tell when something is a production choice for the show itself or a in-universe part of the Hex's alternate reality. Or possibly both, with Pietro Maximoff being played by Evan Peters, who depicted the version of the character presented in the X-Men films. The audience is left confused as to whether this is an indication of both universes being part of a unified Multiverse (as is the case for the DC Extended Universe and the Arrowverse) or a simple Casting Gag. Which is yet another of the show's use of Mind Screw.
• As pointed out by Cinema Wins, the visual effects in the first three episodes are an easy way to tell whether something is scripted or not. Vision's antics while "drunk" on gum (like the works getting "gummed up" or phasing the hat through himself) were all scripted because they use period-accurate effects. Whereas clear CGI was used when he saved Mr. Hart from choking to death by phasing his hand through Mr. Hart's throat to remove the strawberry, which says that that moment wasn't scripted.
• The overlying theme of the show is "processing grief", and Wanda trying to move on in the wake of Vision's death. To that end, Wanda's arc can be broken down by the five stages.
  • Denial is Wanda's state for the first 2.8 episodes, as she's trying to act like everything is fine. In fact, it explains her decade jumping at the end of each episode: because she's trying to run away from her problems. In the first episode, it's because Mr. Hart nearly died. In the second one, Wanda hears Jimmy's voice asking "Who's doing this to you, Wanda?" on a radio, and later sees a beekeeper (Agent Franklin) come out of the sewer. In the third one, it's when Monica brings up Ultron and Wanda expels her from the Hex.
  • Anger begins to manifest when "Geraldine" / Monica brings up Pietro's death at the hands of Ultron, which prompts Wanda to expel Monica from the Hex. Subsequently, after S.W.O.R.D. tries to send a drone in to shoot Wanda, Wanda destroys the drone, exits the Hex to return the broken pieces, and coldly tells Hayward to leave her alone, even compelling Hayward's sharpshooters to turn their guns on him.
  • Bargaining also begins to show when Wanda leaves the Hex to confront Hayward, and it really begins to show in episode 6 when she talks with "Pietro" / Ralph about her grief.
  • Depression takes place in the last three episodes as Wanda begins to come to terms with what she's doing to the citizens of Westview by brainwashing them into acting out her sitcom fantasies.
  • Acceptance happens in the last episode as Wanda decides to leave Westview and exile herself.
• Wanda's comedic moments in the sitcom are mostly done through awkward moments or cringe humor. This makes sense because Wanda is one of the least comedic characters in the MCU, only cracking one or two jokes at best in all of her appearances before this show.
• Despite wanting to run away from her life, Wanda's hair is still red in the Hex even though she doesn't have to disguise herself to hide from the authorities (as far as she knows, because she doesn't fully realize that Hayward is after her until episode 3). Wanda's red hair is a symbol of how she can't let go of what happened to Vision, or run away from her reality in the Hex. It's also a symbol of Wanda's reality affecting her fantasies because in her childhood photos in episode 5, her hair is red, despite her being brunette.
• It makes sense that Wanda's Reality Warping is called "Rewriting" because her changes to reality only affect things on a cosmetic level. Bulletproof vests are still bulletproof vests even if they now look like '70's clothes, an armored vehicle is still an armored vehicle even if it looks like an ice cream truck. The only things Wanda actually created are her version of Vision and her children. When something is rewritten, like say a script, there are still aspects of the original in it. A whole new story was not written. This means her powers are not or haven't fully become Reality Warping yet. The fact that Wanda can't actually change reality so that Vision is resurrected and they can live an idyllic life together in the real world cements this.
  • Also, of course people in the Hex are forgotten by those who knew them who live outside of Westview. They were rewritten, metaphorically and literally, into their sitcom roles. The only people who would remember them are those who know them through physical records, like IDs or from the news.
  • There is a meta-level to the Hex. When a big change is made or a new element is introduced to a series or franchise, either existing material has to be rewritten or the big change has to be made according to what was established before it. The big change or new element in this show is that Wanda is now a normal housewife living a sitcom life with Vision in Westview. The changes Wanda makes to Westview don't mesh with the outside world because there are still records of the people in the Hex outside of Westview, and Vision was killed by Thanos. Also, nothing physical in the outside world has changed to accommodate Wanda's alterations, which shows that the only thing she has rewritten is Westview. This is a meta-commentary that if you rewrite one aspect of a franchise or series, you logically have to rewrite other parts to accommodate that, or your changes won't make sense. This can also be a meta-commentary that if you don't rewrite an aspect well, it won't mesh with what came before. This cements that the reality Wanda made is not real and her powers are not full on Reality Warping yet. Logically, Wanda cannot just go from being an Avenger to a housewife in a sitcom world because it doesn't mesh with her real life.
• The show is set in the town of Westview, New Jersey. Despite this, there appears to be some moments of California Doubling, where it more closely resembles California. Of course, the show itself is filmed in California, but in-universe, this makes complete sense; Wanda created her own sitcom world. Most shows are filmed in California, so logically, she's going to turn Westview into an intentionally invoked case of California Doubling to more closely match her false sitcom reality. It also drives home the fact that the Hex isn't reality.
• In the very first episode, Mr. Hart chastises Vision for having too much "chaos" in his household — chaos that stems from Wanda's powers. This foreshadows the nature of Wanda's magic, but also doubles as a reference to the chaos that is inherent to the sitcom as an art form, played for comedy. That Wanda subconsciously gravitates towards the innocent chaos of sitcoms so much that she recreated them in reality is tragic, considering her own chaos magic is dangerous to those around her.

Episode 1: Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience

• It's pretty standard for old sitcoms to never mention anything that happened offscreen. The end of the first episode makes this a plot point.
• This might be unintentional but the lobster in the first episode ending up on the door. A front door is a way of being welcomed into their home, their family. What have lobsters been famous for in sitcoms? Vision and Wanda are each other's lobsters. Phoebe Buffay would approve!
  • Speaking of welcoming traditions, Agnes comes to the front door with a pineapple for the Harts' cake. Of course Agatha, a witch from Massachusetts, would think of that; the pineapple's use as a symbol of welcome and hospitality took off among colonists around the time Agatha still lived there.
• The first episode's plot, in which Mr. Hart questions Wanda and Vision about their past, can be seen as an allegory for a writer wanting to do a certain plot but not doing any groundwork for it. When that happens, people begin asking questions about how the characters get to that plot and the writers and/or the story will struggle to answer those questions. Wanda subconsciously wanted a sitcom life with Vision but she and Vision realize that they don't know how they ended up in Westview and that nothing in their life leads up to the premise of the sitcom. Wanda also realizes she can't discuss her past without mentioning her actual past because she didn't think to come up with a fake past. It's comparable to the MCU starting with the first Avengers movie instead of doing groundwork with the Avengers' solo movies.
• In the very first episode of the show, Wanda incorporates her Sokovian nationality as part of the sitcom silliness leading up to their dinner. At first, it just seems like a trivial detail that could be used to have Wanda poking fun of herself for the audience. But after learning that Sokovia no longer exists as a country anymore in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Wanda inserting references to it in her sitcom world is likely a way to keep her home country alive in any way she can think of, no matter how small or insignificant it might be.
• Computational Services, Inc. doesn't make, buy, or sell anything. But their productivity went up 300% after Vision started working for them. While obviously poking fun at the obscure office jobs of sitcoms, the fact that the Hex is Wanda's doing adds another layer to it; since Wanda doesn't know how to job and probably never held any steady job (and certainly nothing that involved working out of an office) prior to being an Avenger, her idea of what Vision does for a living in her sitcom fantasies didn't stretch beyond "He goes to work and does whatever normal people do at the office."

Episode 2: Don't Touch That Dial

• While the comedy is still quite similar, the second episode starts to introduce a bit more risqué humor, such as the heavy implication of Wanda and Vision having sex, Herb mistaking the term "mastication" for something dirtier, and the episode's climax revolves around Vision acting drunk after swallowing gum. While all of this is still quite silly like the first episode, the slight increase in mature jokes makes sense since the second episode is homaging the 1960s rather than the 50s. So Wanda and Vision have seemingly jumped forward about a decade, meaning that they're experiencing the changes between the two television eras immediately, as the loss of the Hays Code allowed more adult experimentation with their shows.
• The first two episodes — set in the 50's and 60's, respectively — have a few jokes mocking America's paranoia towards communism in this era. While it can be thought of as cute, it can also be seen as Foreshadowing that Wanda is the source of Westview's anomalous state (or at least is an important factor in it). Communism is often associated with the color red (hence phrases like "Red Menace" and "Red Scare", to the point where during the Second Red Scare, just wearing red got you in trouble) and Eastern Europe, with America associating the ideology with Godless-Authoritarian Conformity against Western Freedom and Prosperity. Wanda's main color is red (both in how she dresses and her powers) and she herself is Eastern European. While it is unlikely that Wanda herself is a communist (especially since she for a time worked for HYDRA — a fascistic organization — before joining the Avengers to fight against genocide), a sizable chunk of the inhabitants are brainwashed with implications that on some level, they are all terrified of Wanda, worried that she would do something horrible if they "broke character".
• The second episode has a 1960's motif and begins in black & white. At the end of the episode, it shifts to color. Many 60's family sitcoms started their run in black & white, and shifted to color as technology allowed. One notable example was Bewitched, which the second episode heavily homages.
• The main conflicts of the first two episodes resolve themselves in incredibly unrealistic and convenient ways. Not only is it consistent with hokey sitcom writing needing to wrap up plots in bows within 30 minutes, since Wanda is implied to have slight control of this reality, and has endured a life full of trauma and hardship, it makes sense that she would always want to give herself a happy ending, no matter how unearned. Perhaps, indeed, it's why she (or whoever is controlling her) chose the sitcom format for her new life.
  • Confirmed in Episode 8. Not only that, Wanda's been drawn to sitcoms since she was a child, apparently to distract from the bleak reality of Sokovia. One of her first reactions to seeing her parents killed in a bombing is to tell herself that everything always turns out to be fine at the end of the episode, and anything bad that happens, It Was All A Dream.
• At first glance, it seems odd that for the second episode, Wanda would make Dottie Jones an Alpha Bitch character who is mean to her. Why put someone like Dottie in your perfect life? But consider Dottie's role: she runs the neighborhood with an iron fist, she punishes people who don't do exactly what she wants so everyone scrambles to please her, and she demands that everything be perfect. Sounds kind of like someone else, doesn't it? Maybe Wanda's subconsciously uncomfortable with her role in this whole situation, and Dottie is her way of externalizing that—if someone else is the bad guy, then she doesn't have to feel like one.
  • There's also a simpler explanation: the episode needed a conflict. Sitcoms, like any show, require drama or else they'll become stale and boring. Since Wanda was fighting against any sort of negativity in her perfect Dom Com life, she had to come up with some external source that would cause her trouble without threatening her carefully constructed home life. And what better than the age-old sit-com foil, the 50s version of a PTA Mom?
    • Also, compared to HYDRA, Ultron, and Thanos, Dottie is a Harmless Villain and any trouble caused by her would be more like a Breather Episode compared to the Trauma Conga Line Wanda went through.
    • It's likely a combination of both.
• The second episode's opening foreshadows the true nature of Wanda's powers. The opening starts with a shot of the moon and then six stars, followed by Wanda and Vision flying from the moon, leading us to believe that the opening is referencing the six Infinity Stones, which came from outer space, which is why they are referenced by six stars and how Wanda and Vision both got their powers from one, the Mind Stone, which the six stars are shaped after (they're also shaped like a hexagon to reference the Hex). However, notice how the moon appears before the six stars. The moon is a symbol of witchcraft. The opening is foreshadowing that Wanda's power is magic enhanced by an Infinity Stone and that Vision in the show and the Hex are products of that magic.
• The second episode's opening doesn't have any lyrics besides repetitions of the title, but its visuals tell the story of the series. As mentioned above, the beginning foreshadows the true nature of Wanda's powers.
  • First, Wanda turns a sign of Westview into a title card for the show to symbolize how she's turned the town into the setting of her sitcom.
  • The opening has Vision then phase through parts of the house to get ready for work, which reveals a skeleton under the house's floorboard, symbolizing how Wanda's life is built around dead people and how she's trying to hide that.
  • The opening then follows with showing Wanda doing magic at the supermarket behind Monica's back to symbolize her doing magic behind everyone's backs and Vision accidentally throwing water at Mr. Hart to symbolize him pretending to be human.
  • Then Vision drives home and sees the townspeople singing the episode's theme. Vision notices that everyone in the town is acting strangely. The opening ends with Agatha being the only other person in the Visions' house to symbolize her acting like a drop-in character, being an intruder in the show and the only townsperson to not be under Wanda's control.
    Cinema Wins: Very much appreciate the entire town dancing along to the theme song they can't...hear. Oh my gosh, are they all experiencing this as cartoons with the song playing in their head?! Dark, Wanda. Dark.
  • In addition, the melody of the theme tune sounds an awful lot like "Help Me, Rhonda" by the Beach Boys, the song that's later heard playing on the radio at the time that Jimmy Woo attempts to make contact with Wanda. Couple that with the fact that the title of the song sounds like "Help me Wanda", it makes it sound more like a plea for help.
• The first and second episodes are based off of 50s and 60s sitcoms, respectively, and are very thorough in their portrayals, even including the less savory aspects such as sexism, McCarthyism and procreationism. However, both episodes feature non-white characters, which is odd considering shows during those decades had extremely little diversity in their casts or none altogether, with representation only starting to get better toward the 70s. This foreshadows the fact that Westview is not a fake town created to act as a backdrop or prison for Wanda, but an actual place with the characters being real Westview residents who have been forced into roles to fulfill the narrative.
• The twin beds in episode 2 represent how Wanda and Vision are on separate planes of existence. Wanda is alive and Vision is dead. Westview Vision is also not real, but a construct of her power. Even when Wanda puts the two beds together into one, their bed is still made up of two twin beds, especially when all she changed was the sheets to fit both of them. There is always going to be a line between them and that line can only be gotten rid of through unnatural means, like changing the whole bed and the house.
  • The twin beds also foreshadow that Wanda and Vision are going to have twins.
• When Wanda says to Agnes, "Or maybe I could just be myself", Agnes laughs in her face. On one level, this is making fun of the conformity expected of women in a 1960s American suburb, but on another level it's Agatha Harkness laughing at the idea of Wanda saying she should be herself, because Agnes knows Wanda is so far from being herself right now as she hides away in a sitcom world.

Episode 3: Now in Color

• Tommy is the first to be born because he's been known to be the faster of the twins. And note that Pietro claimed in Age of Ultron to be 12 minutes older than Wanda.
• In Episode 3, Geraldine/Monica can be seen wearing pants with blue fish on them to represent her as a Fish out of Temporal Water in the town of Westview.
• While it doesn't become apparent that Phil Jones and Dottie are a married couple (at least in this version of reality) until Episode 3, the two characters appear together in the opening credits for Episode 2 and sit next to each other at the talent show, hinting at the connection.
  • Seeing that Dottie, the "perfect housewife" of Westview, is Jones's wife explains why the dinner with them that Mr. Hart details in the first episode was so extravagant.
  • This also provides an In-Universe explanation for her hostility towards Wanda in the context of the "sitcom." While the actual reason is because she doesn't trust Wanda and Vision, the "plot" reason for it is that Wanda's husband got the promotion for which Dottie's husband was passed over.
• Monica Rambeau working on behalf of S.W.O.R.D actually makes a lot of sense if one takes the events of Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far From Home into perspective. The latter film establishes that S.W.O.R.D is also active in space, and that the Skrulls are heavily involved with it. With that in mind, it's entirely possible that Monica decided to join S.W.O.R.D as an adult to stay connected with Talos and Soren's daughter, whom she made friends with as a kid in the former film.
  • Episode 4 reveals that her mother founded the organization and Monica grew up in it.
  • Basically confirmed as of episode 9.
• Monica suddenly remembering Ultron, and Pietro's death from him, seems odd. But what was happening immediately before? Wanda was fondly remembering her lost twin brother, and begins singing a Sokovian lullaby to her babies. Wanda was letting just a hint of her real self in through her sitcom persona, to remember and honor her family as she starts her own. That opened the tiniest of cracks for some reality to seep into "Geraldine", and since Monica works for a government agency that studies artificial intelligence, she would have at least read mission reports on Ultron, which would've mentioned both of the Maximoff twins since they were Ultron's accomplices for a short time, as well as Pietro's death. "Geraldine" doesn't seem to entirely "break character" — that is, Monica's personality doesn't come completely forward — but that one bit of information pops into her head and escapes her mouth. Much like Mr. Hart's near-death experience, it shows how Wanda's control over the reality within the Hex isn't perfect.
• When Dr. Nielsen is checking on Wanda's pregnancy in Episode 3, he only ever indicates that there is one growing fetus, and the size of Wanda's stomach (which would be much bigger carrying twins rather than a single baby) supports this. Wanda and Vision continue to disagree on what to name the baby, specifically going between his choice of Billy and hers of Tommy. When the first baby is born while Vision is out of the house, he concedes to name him Tommy...and then Wanda goes into labor again. It's entirely possible that Wanda created Billy in the moment so that Vision could witness his son's birth, and get his choice of name as well.
• In episode 3, Agatha points out that Geraldine has no home or husband. This is because Agatha doesn't have those either since she herself is not from Westview. She only has a home and husband in the sitcom because she mind-controlled Ralph. Agatha knows Monica is not from Westview and may be able to stop the Hex before she can find out how Wanda created it so she is trying to draw attention away from herself and towards Monica.

Episode 4: We Interrupt This Program

• Monica getting blasted by Wanda clear out of the town should have killed her, but instead she's largely uninjured when S.W.O.R.D. tends to her. It's possible that Wanda's powers protected Monica even while ejecting her; Wanda doesn't want to hurt anybody, she just wants to live out her fantasy life in peace.
  • Speaking of which, if you watch carefully, Monica gets knocked through two walls and a fence before being sent through the barrier back into the normal world. In other words, she broke through the Fourth Wall.
    • The episode that breaks the sitcom format and takes place on the other side of the fourth wall is also the fourth episode.
  • Adding to this, due to being in a sitcom universe, all the items could be literal props and therefore weaker than their real counterparts.
• Episode 4's title is "We Interrupt This Program", and in a way it does - Instead of following an 80's sitcom aesthetic, it recounts the events of the prior 3 episodes from S.W.O.R.D.'s point of view. It's also the first episode where Wanda and Vision are not the main focus.
  • Starting from Episode 4 on, there is never a sitcom-only episode, scenes from the real world are intercut in the episode too, making it so that S.W.O.R.D always “interrupts the program”.
• Jimmy Woo apparently perfected the card trick from Ant-Man and the Wasp, which he kept fumbling, by simply switching to his other hand. That, and he has had five years to learn and practice it.
• When Jimmy first sees Monica disappear into the town, he shouts her name. It sounds like the shout is echoing off something, as opposed to travelling the apparent hundreds of yards to the nearest building. This is because Jimmy's shouts are echoing off the barrier, a couple of dozen feet ahead of him.
• When watching the show, the scenes Darcy is watching have a lot of time between each other (i.e. Wanda's abbreviate line and the end of the episode seemingly being less than a minute apart). But with how much editing out is happening, with the choking scene definitely not making it through syndication, the lax time seems more sensible.
• Darcy seems incredibly perceptive how government operations work and when someone is trying to BS her with political speak, which makes sense because she was studying Political Science before getting a degree in Astrophysics later. Political Science is the study of among other things understanding systems of governance, so she would know what it means when a massive interdepartmental government operation is underway with seemingly unrelated agencies and experts brought in.
• Why have we never heard of S.W.O.R.D. before? Well, pretty much all the threats that S.H.I.E.L.D. has encountered on Earth have either originated on Earth or suddenly appeared there. Even if they came from space, they didn't travel through space (with the exception of the Kree in Captain Marvel... which apparently no one noticed?), and thus S.W.O.R.D. wouldn't have been involved. Likely, Fury devoted all his resources to following the threats he encountered on the ground and put S.W.O.R.D. on a back-burner. Plus, y'know, politics. Government types willing to invest in a massive surveillance system would probably prefer one pointed at the people they want to control, rather than an invisible potential threat that might never show up. And which really didn't show up until Thanos came in and curb-stomped the universe.
• Why did the S.W.O.R.D. agent show up in a beekeeper suit surrounded by bees? Why, he came through a Beehive Barrier, of course!
  • The people in Westview are all under Wanda's control. They're literally a Hive Mind! So no wonder the first person to infiltrate the Hex (aside from Monica) would be a person who works with beehives for a living.
• In Episode 4, Darcy is able to discover the show in the TV, because her equipment registers that Wanda's powers are emiting a high level of what Hayward described as "relic radiation back from the Big Bang". Wanda's powers derived from the Mind Stone, and Wong explained to Tony and Banner back in Infinity War that the Infinity Stones were created in the Big Bang.
• Whereas in Spider-Man: Far From Home, it appears that those returning just "blipped" back into being, Monica seemed to slowly reform, her memories "filling up her mind" as she does so. This is because we are seeing a reformation from that person's perspective. Same principle as dreaming; the person may think a dream lasts a long time while in real-time it's only a few seconds or minutes.

Episode 5: On a Very Special Episode...

• In Episode 5, the opening credits, in an homage to Growing Pains, use a Photo Montage to show the characters as they grew up. Not only does it lampshade the fact that Billy and Tommy can rapidly age themselves up as fast as the photo montage does, but foreshadows Vision's breakdown later in the episode. While the credits show Vision having a childhood he never actually had (since he was "born" in an adult body in Age of Ultron), Vision himself is terrified and angry because he can't remember anything before Westview. In this sense, the credits are trying to give him a past that is clearly fake to cover up the fact that his real past is hidden from him.
• Episode 5 has a lot of anachronisms, such as HDTV, references to email and the internet, and a modern-day post office logo. It makes perfect sense that these anachronisms would appear in the same episode Wanda loses the ability to prevent Vision from becoming self-aware, and control of several other characters' perceptions. The anachronisms are just one more symptom of Wanda losing control over Westview and the reality she's created.
• We see Wanda say in regards to Monica/Geraldine, "She's gone. She didn't belong here." in the episode recap preceding Episode 5. However in Episode 3 itself, Wanda responds to Vision asking where Monica/Geraldine is with, "Oh, she left, honey. She had to rush home." instead. This discrepancy makes more sense, given that Wanda is the one that introduces the recap in the episode. Her control is extending over all parts of the broadcast.
• The pictures of Vision as a baby and growing up in the Episode 5 opening border on Narm, until you remember Vision's true origin: Wanda and Pietro were manipulated by Ultron to help steal vibranium from Ulysses Klaue and create Vision's body. We already saw that the slightest mention of Pietro's death caused her to expel Monica from the Hex. As traumatized as she is, Wanda wanted to come up with an origin for Vision that wasn't as painful as the truth.
• In the Episode 5 intro (it had a lot going on) during the Photo Montage, we see Vision dressed in various holiday costumes while posing with the twins, but he goes from smiling to looking more and more unhappy in each photo. Since the mind control doesn't work on him, he knows none of this is real and he's finding the ruse tiresome. Note that this episode is also where he starts to show increasing Medium Awareness culminating in his breakdown at the end.
• Vision having Power Incontinence in the first episode (pulverizing the steak that he was supposed to tenderize) makes sense when he reveals he doesn’t have any of his direct memories of his past in episode 5. He was recreated by Wanda right before the first episode, so he has to adjust to using his powers.
• The opening of the fifth episode starts with Vision being colored first but not Wanda even though the series started because of Wanda because one can say the series started because of Vision’s death and resurrection.
• In "On a Very Special Episode...", Agatha reacts to Billy and Tommy suddenly aging to adolescents by remarking "Kids: Can't control 'em, no matter how hard you try". She says this with a glass of liquor in her hand, saying it in an exhausted tone that almost breaks her light-hearted mood. This could mean that she is speaking from experience, her mainstream Earth-616 counterpart having an antagonistic relationship with her own son, Nicholas Scratch. Though considering this version of Agatha seems to based on her evil Ultimate Marvel counterpart, context is up in the air for now.
  • Agatha's comment could also come from experience. Her own mother Evanora tried to stop her from studying the Darkhold, and failing that, attempted to execute her for it, but Agatha defied her at every step.
• Taken from a comment on this video: Evan Peters' role is a brilliant piece of Meta Casting. The character obviously isn't Pietro, but Wanda still feels like he really might be Pietro regardless. How do you make the audience feel the same way? Easy: you cast the other guy who played Quicksilver. We see with our own eyes that this unquestionably isn't Wanda's brother - but there's a way that he could be, and we want that to be true, so we believe that it is - even against the evidence standing right in front of us.
  • Post-Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the re-cast becomes Fridge Brilliance in another way: Wanda's been subconsciously visiting alternate realities in her dreams, probably including ones where her brother is alive and does look like Evan Peters. After all, we have good cause to suspect that at least one such universe is out there.
• In this episode, Wanda tries to use magic to quiet the twins. This is a standard plot in supernatural sitcoms; a character tries to use magic for selfish or short-sighted reasons, it makes everything worse, and they learn a lesson about not using magic on your loved ones (and then they do it again later). Here, Wanda's spell fails outright, representing both that the sitcom is starting to break down and the twins are not under her control in the same way that the townspeople are.
• Why did Tommy and Billy "settle" at 10 years old? Wanda and Pietro were 10 when their parents died. It's probably the latest age Wanda can imagine an idyllic childhood. It's also likely another reason why she didn't want them to age past 10.
• When Wanda is threatening the S.W.O.R.D. agents after the drone strike, she is looking at Monica when she says, "I have what I want and no one will ever take it from me". When she says "again", she looks very pointedly at Hayward specifically, since he didn't let her take Vision's remains to bury him.
• A very close observer will notice when the camera lingers on the UAV after Wanda brings it out of the Hex that there's a Stark Industries logo on it. It's no surprise Wanda is so livid when she leaves the Hex to confront Hayward; Stark products have killed every member of her real-life family (Stark Industries missiles killed her parents while Ultron, an AI created by Tony, killed her brother) and now a drone was just used by the man who dissected Wanda's lover to try and kill her and her kids.

Episode 6: All-New Halloween Spooktacular!

• The origins of Halloween talks about how during Samhain, the veil of the dead and living merge and the undead can cross over. Episode 6 is a Halloween Episode and what does Vision do? Cross the barrier of the Hex into the real world.
• There's something significant about Pietro in Episode 6:
  • First the fact that the credits cast him "As Himself", but more to symbolize that Wanda is insistent that he is her brother despite the fact that he ain't Pietro.
  • Second: his hair is platinum blond, not the real Pietro's silver color, again, probably Agatha enforcing that this stranger play Wanda's brother exactly no matter the cost.
• The decade hopping gimmick employed by the show to that point would seem to indicate that Episode 6 should be set in The '90s, and yet the episode is clearly inspired by Malcolm in the Middle, which first aired in 2000, and makes several references to media created after the year 2000, like The Incredibles, which came out in 2004. However, most of the defining sitcoms of the 1990's, like Seinfeld and Friends, were about groups of adults in their 20s/30s who hung out together at bars and coffee shops. Since this doesn't fit the family-orientated story that Wanda is trying to create, it makes sense that she would skip this decade or merge it with the early 2000s to keep her show on track.
  • There's also the fact that many of the dom-coms we associate with the 90's, like Full House, Family Matters, and Roseanne, actually premiered in the late 80's, with the most notable exception being Home Improvement, which might have been a little too male-centric for Wanda's tastes.
  • Furthermore, Wanda has very good reasons to avoid being reminded of the 90's, as she was born in 1989, meaning that decade includes all her memories of her dead parents, the bombing that killed them in 1999, and the civil war that was being fought in her country.
  • The Maximoff siblings were apparently born in 1989. The movies on the marquee (The Parent Trap (1998) and The Incredibles) were films from her early-to-mid-childhood, assuming she saw them the year they were released.
• Wanda attacks Pietro for the "Hey don't sweat it, sis. It's not like your dead husband can die twice" remark because she has seen Vision die twice. First when she blew up the Mind Stone to stop Thanos from getting it (which killed Vision on his own terms in the process), and again when Thanos undid the death with the Time Stone so that he could rip the Stone off Vision's forehead.
• While presumably tech-savvy, it seems like a stretch that Darcy would simply have the hacking ability to break into the secure files of high-tech government agency. That said, this was done minutes after Hayward had decided to remove them from the base. It's likely that no one had actually gotten around to removing her access credentials yet, giving her an easy leg-up on getting into the system. Coupled with the fact that it was established that S.W.O.R.D is still having trouble organizing itself after the Blip, it becomes somewhat less far-fetched.
• Why is Tommy better than Billy at DanceDanceRevolution? It could be an early manifestation of his super speed.
• Of course Billy is the one doing the asides to the camera in the Malcolm in the Middle-spoof.
  • It also might be a Mythology Gag because, in the comics, Billy / "Wiccan" is a reality warper who at the height of his power essentially has authorial control over reality; observing it from outside the comic panels and rearranging things as he sees fit.
• Most of the sitcoms parodied and featured are from ABC, Disney's original network, but Malcolm in the Middle, the show that was parodied in the episode with the focus on Evan Peters Quicksilver, is the only show in the lineup that aired on FOX, the company also responsible for the X-Men franchise Peters first appeared as Quicksilver in.
• Why is Vision's Halloween costume a "Mexican Luchador"? In Lucha Libre, there's always two bands, tecnicos and rudos. The luchadores rudos tend to be presented as evil, tyranical characters, and their costumes reflect that by having more "somber" designs with a black or red color scheme. On the contrary, the luchadores tecnicos are always loyal and respectful of the rules (both key values for Vision) and their suits tend to have more vibrant and benevolent colors and designs.
• There is a subtle foreshadowing that the Pietro that was shown is actually a fake. In past cases where the actor for a character is replaced, they are either obscured or are shown as brief as possible in flashbacks like Rhodey (when going from Terrence Howard to Don Cheadle) and Bruce (when going from Edward Norton to Mark Ruffalo). However, you can clearly see the face of Aaron Taylor-Johnson during Pietro's death in Age of Ultron unlike the previous mentioned cases, which foreshadows that the character Evan Peters plays is not Pietro.
• In episode 6 it's revealed that S.W.O.R.D. can no longer watch what's going on inside the Hex, as the signal is gone, but we the audience know that the sitcom is still going on in episodes 6 and 7, so why no broadcast? Has Wanda realized that she was broadcasting her life, and intentionally stopped now that she knows about S.W.O.R.D. to stop them from meddling in her life? Actually, there's a simpler explanation; the sitcom universe has caught up with the current millennium. TV is digital now, you can't pick it up on an old TV like that anymore!
• Episode 6's lyrics foreshadow the true nature of Wanda's powers. One of the lyrics is "Can't control the chaos". Wanda's powers are Chaos Magic and she is starting to lose control of them.
• Episode 6's opening foreshadows Agatha's true nature. In the opening, she is shown looking through Wanda's fridge before trying to take Tommy's video cam away from him when Tommy films footage of her. By the end of the opening, she is suddenly gone and doesn't join the rest of the cast despite now being listed in the credits. Why does she not want Wanda to know she is in her house even if she is a trusted friend and the pop-in character, who is allowed by the logic of sitcoms to come in whenever they want? Because Agatha doesn't want Wanda knowing that she's sneaking around behind her back, and is more important than she seems.
• In episode 6, Vision is as much a prisoner of the Hex as anyone else. He knows that there is something seriously wrong with reality, and that Wanda could shed light on his questions, but she won’t, and he has no choice but to play along. Her control over him is displayed by the fact that his Halloween costume was the only thing in his closet. This episode was in the sitcom style of an era of television where the depiction of the father as "head of the household" was long gone and the typical sitcom dad was a Henpecked Husband terrified of his wife such as Ray Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond and Hal from Malcolm in the Middle (which this episode’s style was largely based on). These sitcoms have been criticized for use of Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male.
• A Halloween episode with many children was likely a response to Vision's realization that there were no children in Westview up until that point. Wanda's trying to suppress the fact that she has power over the situation and trying to gaslight her husband.

Episode 7: Breaking the Fourth Wall

• As more is revealed about how Westview is being controlled, we can look back through the previous episodes and see how certain tropes are being taken advantage of. The friendly neighbor always showing up at convenient times with just what is needed to move the plot along is Wanda directing those around her...or Agatha playing into that element.
• Why did S.W.O.R.D turn into clowns and mimes when Wanda expanded the Hex? Presumably because Wanda sees them as laughing at her grief and pain or also because they kept silent about their experiments on Vision and Hayward refused to turn over Vision's corpse.
  • The word "clown" can also be used to describe somebody who is foolish or incompetent. On top of that, S.W.O.R.D's base camp is transformed into a circus. Informally speaking, a "circus" can refer to a public display of disorder or stupidity. In other words, it's possible Wanda sees S.W.O.R.D as a bunch of "clowns" (read: "incompetent fools") for continuing to interfere in her sitcom reality. And their continued attempts to do so despite her giving them a very clear first and final warning is them "running a circus" (read: "responsible for disorder running rampant" and/or "encouraging stupid behavior"). As for the mimes, a common joke about them is that, just like clowns, they're really creepy. Considering how S.W.O.R.D has been consistently watching Wanda's sitcom life and trying to pull her away from it, it's no surprise Wanda would see them as a bunch of creeps.
  • Alternatively, since clowns and mimes are joke magnets in the world of sitcoms, anything the converted S.W.O.R.D. agents say or do will be met with derision. Who'd ever take a major conspiracy seriously coming from a mime?
  • They're probably meant to be ironic to their real-life jobs as well: now the clowns have to perform a meticulous routine every day, while the mimes can never talk about their work to uphold a believable Masquerade. If that's what they wanted to do in Westview, then they'll keep doing it.
  • A traveling circus is also one of the few justifiable reasons to have a bunch of temporary buildings in a random field just outside town, and thus make sense in the context of Wanda's fantasy.
• While being under Westview's spell has been characterized as being under Wanda's control, Agnes and Herb's conversation with Vision in episode 3 suggested a greater degree of consciousness that contradicted this spell. Agnes' attempt to escape also flew in the face of Wanda's complete control over the people's identities. This proved to be important to the revelation of who Agnes really is.
• Agatha is a Wicked Witch who lives in a town called Westview. She's quite literally the Wicked Witch of the West.
  • This comparison is confirmed in the final episode where she, well, leaves it hanging◊...
• Given how Agatha is a Wicked Witch, one may wonder why she has a pet bunny instead of a cat. However, keep in mind she's also a magician, and in a sense, the entire town of Westview is her stage; what kind of animal is the most typical for a stage magician?
  • Some lesser-known legends, dating back to at least the 1600s, had witches using rabbits as familiars, as for much of history they were generally considered "unclean" animals, and likely to be associated with witchcraft and the Devil. Given that Agatha has been around since the time of the Salem witch trials, it makes sense that she'd have a rabbit rather than the cat, which is a more modern symbol for witches.
  • One of the most famous rabbits in fiction is Bugs Bunny. Like Agatha, Bugs is known for being a trickster and donning various disguises. He has also gone through multiple incarnations across several decades of television.
• Although the deep voice of the interviewer who asks Wanda if she thinks she deserves the pain the Hex is giving her sounds like it belongs to a man, if you transpose the voice up by two notches on an editing software, it’s Kathryn Hahn’s voice, which lines up with the "Agatha All Along" sequence at the end of the episode, which shows her in the director’s chair behind the camera.
• The Nexus commercial airing in the 00's episode, as well as its metaphor for Wanda's use of the sitcom as an antidepressant, matches up with self-deprecating internet jokes around the 00's and New 10's about watching real life television for the same effect. Those feelings were often expressed in memes like "TV is my anti-drug", "getting that dose of serotonin", and borrowing from music, "TV taught me how to feel/Now real life has no appeal".
• This is admittedly a stretch, but it probably wasn't just a random pick to have Yo Gabba Gabba! be the kids show Wanda sees playing on Agatha's television. You see, one of the main characters of Yo Gabba Gabba is Plex, who is described in the theme song as being a "magic robot" and is the closest thing the other inhabitants of "Gabbaland" have to a father figure. All of this fits eerily well with Vision's role in the sitcom. In addition, Plex just so happens to primarily be yellow, which is the color of the Mind Stone.
• Darcy and Vision's ability to "connect" wordlessly and cooperate is facilitated by that sliver of Thor's power that imbued the original Vision with life originally, meaning on some unconscious level he already recognizes and trusts her implicitly. Darcy may very well be unconsciously picking up some familiarity with Vision for the same reason. Perhaps Darcy's one of the few people affected by residual radiation from being right next to a Bifrost bridge activation. Which could also explain Jane Foster surviving being filled with the Reality Stone, and Erik Selvig going mad after The Avengers despite him and Hawkeye both being mind-controlled.
• "Breaking the Fourth Wall", which is based on the 00’s and 10’s, is the first episode in the series to have The Stinger during the credits. These scenes did become more prevalent during these decades, part in thanks to Marvel's own Iron Man.
• The project to revive Vision is referred to as "Project Cataract". What happens when you remove a cataract? You get your Vision back!
  • Advanced stages of cataracts turn your eyes white. The revived Vision is completely white.
• Agatha's use of "naughty" to describe herself in her theme song (and on her sweatpants in the 90s-00s era WandaVision credits) may be a little more pointed than it appears—if Agatha is as old as she seems to be, she likely grew up using the word in its now archaic definition of "wicked" (as in possessing no (naught) virtues). While Agatha has clearly kept up with the times, if her favored outfit is any guide, she'd prefer not to.
• Wanda being confused when the interviewer in Episode 7 asks her an Armor-Piercing Question makes sense. Think back to sitcoms that make use of the Confession Cam like The Office (US), Modern Family or Parks and Recreation. While shot in a mockumentary format, the presence of a camera crew or interview team is virtually never a plot point and oftentimes the interview scenes seem more like a Framing Device rather than something actually occurring in-universe.
• Several fans have noticed that Wanda's leitmotif (aka the Devil's Interval) is rarely, if ever, heard during the show itself, instead usually showing up during the end credits. That's because the bouncy melody used in all of the period theme songs isn't Wanda's theme... it's Agatha's.
  • Going further, the particular musical interval used for the theme songs and the "It was ______ All Along" sequence is called a tritone, and the use of it doubles as a joke (NBC famously uses the interval in its network jingle) and as foreshadowing for Agatha's true identity, as the tritone was often referred to as the Devil's interval.
• This is an MCU production, which is notorious for giving mid-credits scenes after the movie is done. However, we don't get any mid-credits scenes for 6 whole episodes. Why? Because we were in Wanda's show for that span of time. Now that Agatha has revealed herself, the show is no longer under Wanda's control, thus bringing us back to the MCU proper.
  • Alternatively, we've reached the modern era of sitcoms in Episode 7, so Wanda's show is over because it ran out of material.
• Before Vision snaps her out of it, Darcy's Westview persona in Episode 7 is an escape artist who's introduced wrapped in chains. In the real world, Darcy was handcuffed when Wanda expanded the Hex at the end of Episode 6.
• In Doctor Strange (2016), it's established that there are three Sanctum Sanctorums throughout the world. For all intents and purposes, they are three GIANT runes that protect Earth (and possibly our entire dimension) and prevent extra-dimensional intruders (like Dormammu) from using magic (at least at full power, perhaps) inside of its boundaries while allowing Earth's spellcasters to do the same. JUST like Wanda's Hex and Agatha's basement. If not exactly the same, then on a similar principle.
• In episode 7's opening, Wanda's name shows up throughout all of it until the ending. This reflects that not only is the Hex Wanda's own creation, with even one shot showing a videotape that has the word "Master" over Wanda—meaning the tape can be read as Master Wanda—representing that she's the master of the Hex, but also that Wanda is separated from Vision for the whole episode. The opening ends with the show title as a reminder to herself that the show is WandaVision and not just Wanda. Also, unlike the previous episode openings, the credits feature no one but herself, showing that Wanda is too caught up in her grief to focus on anyone else, reflected by how she unintentionally neglects her own children in the episode.

Episode 8: Previously On

• When it's revealed that Wanda visited S.W.O.R.D. headquarters and found Vision's body being experimented on, it gives her yet another reason to keep the outside world and S.W.O.R.D. away — subconsciously she's not just refusing to accept that the real Vision is dead, she's terrified that S.W.O.R.D. will take the facsimile of Vision back and continue to use him for their research. When Hex Vision demands to know what's outside Westview in episode 5 and Wanda tells him, "You don't want to know, I promise you," it's not just because he died, which he had accepted and was at peace with in the real world, but also because his real body was being used to make weapons, which he definitely would not be happy with. Then factor in Hayward's deceptively edited surveillance footage, intended to mislead people to the false assumption that Wanda stole the original Vision's body, and one realizes why Monica's "what do you want?" question was answered by Wanda with, "I have what I want, and no one will ever take it from me again."
• Evanora and her coven insisted that Agatha cannot "be good" despite Agatha protesting otherwise. Considering the effect that reading the Darkhold has had in other media in the MCU, even being able to corrupt the mind of an LMD, this insistence suddenly makes a lot of sense if Agatha's crime was reading the Darkhold.
• In "Breaking the Fourth Wall", S.W.O.R.D. can no longer pick up the broadcast from inside Westview. Why? In 2009 broadcast signals changed to digital, so the analog TV that they were using to pick up the signal wouldn't work.
• Episode 8 gives Hayward's interest in Wanda's abilities all the more meaningful. The previous episodes had S.W.O.R.D tracking Westview Vision via his Vibranium signal in order to keep an eye on him. With the revelation that S.W.O.R.D has always had his body and the Vision inside the Hex is a recreation, this likely means that Wanda managed to create Vibranium itself using her powers. And seeing as how Hayward wants a sentient weapon, naturally he'd also want to control and make use of anyone who had the ability to create more Vibranium androids...
  • It also gives Hayward's Lack of Empathy moment towards a dying Vision in Episode 6 more context. He's not rushing to try and help that version of Vision because he knows it's not the real one.
• Speaking of, Hayward actually managed to revive Vision without the Mind Stone. Something that seems impossible, until you remember that in Infinity War, Shuri had already completed half the work. With five years to work on a project that Shuri was able to half-complete in less than an hour, it's not too crazy they were able to get it working once they found the right energy source.
  • Heck, from Hayward’s dialogue, the only reason they didn’t have Vision working much sooner was because they lacked a viable energy source.
• In Episode 5, Hayward mentions during his briefing that Vision's living will specifically stated he was not to be revived or experimented on after death. But S.W.O.R.D. was probably able to acquire ownership of his remains because Wanda, his next-of-kin and executor of his estate as revealed in Episode 8, was snapped not long after his death in Infinity War. So they probably used some legal Loophole Abuse to take ownership of the body. And with Wanda gone, the surviving Avengers busy chasing Thanos, and the Wakandan government, like all other governments in the universe, in chaos after the loss of King T'Challa and half their population, no one was around to dispute their claim to the remains.
• The hearts on the calendars in Episode 1 and the opening of Episode 7 are the heart that's on Vision's letter to Wanda about the property that he bought for them. The letter then got transmuted by Wanda when she created the Hex.
  • The calendar seen in episode 1 also features a picture of a little girl sitting cross-legged across from a TV set, with a caption on the bottom reading "All this little girl needs is a COLOR TELEVISION!" Considering Wanda's chosen coping mechanism and that the image is situated just above the aforementioned heart, the Hex couldn't be more unsubtle about its origins. Doubly so since when we do see Wanda watching a color television during the HYDRA experiments, she's sitting cross-legged just like the girl in the picture.
• Vision having the power to undo Wanda's mind control on the citizens of Westview now makes a lot more sense after discovering that he's a creation of Wanda's whose existence is tied to the Hex in Episode 8. He's likely subconsciously channeling Wanda's own power to remove her influence over the townsfolk.
• While Agatha is being attacked by the witches, their power glowing and bubbling at her neck looks incredibly similar to the effect that the Infinity Gauntlet had on Thanos, Professor Hulk, and Tony Stark.
• It has been pointed out elsewhere that the DVD sets we see in the Sokovian flashback in Episode 8, when Wanda's family is preparing for TV night, are somewhat anachronistic (both the specific box sets shown, and the inclusion of a show like Malcolm in the Middle which would not have even been available yet), as well as the details not fitting exactly with the description of the event which we've heard previously. However, if we assume that this is based on Wanda's memory (rather than some form of magical time travel), it makes sense — human memory is not infallible, especially when it comes to the small details. Wanda probably remembers quite well things like her family's "TV nights", even which specific show and episode they were watching when the bomb hit. She of course remembers the trauma of the bomb, her parents dying, her and Pietro having to wait for days next to the second bomb, all of that. But other things can get a bit more fuzzy, for example her brain might have turned VCR tapes to DVD sets, or inserted a show which they could not have watched back then but which she had watched at a later point in her life (and for similarly escapist reasons). This is all perfectly natural and exactly the way our memories usually work, and it shows something about how Agatha's magic works.
  • It's also an explanation for the Mood Lighting in all of her memories: It's not that the Maximoffs' apartment was actually a cheery, well-lit place or the HYDRA experimentation chambers were that dark and gloomy. That's just how Wanda remembers them.
  • This would also explain why in Age of Ultron, Pietro said they were having dinner when the shell hit, but the flashback here shows them having already finished dinner. It's not a continuity error; it was just Pietro misremembering things too because this was as much a traumatizing experience for him as it was for Wanda.
• In Episode 5, Jimmy Woo points out that Wanda (seemingly) resurrecting Vision violates a part of the Sokovia Accords, thus meaning she's technically breaking the law. However, Episode 8 reveals that not only is the Vision seen in Westview not the actual Vision, but that Hayward has reactivated the real Vision to be used as a sentient weapon. If deceiving an FBI agent with doctored footage isn't enough evidence against him, using Vision as a weapon to attack Westview is definitely a crime Jimmy could arrest Hayward for.
• Episode 8 suggests that Wanda survived HYDRA's experiments with the Mind Stone because she already had witch powers, and exposure to the Stone merely amplified them. So how did Pietro survive and gain powers as well, instead of dying like all of the other test subjects, if he wasn't a witch? Without bringing the X-gene into the discussion as several fans did, it's useful to remember that the Mind Stone contains an artificial intelligence — the same that later gave sentience to Ultron and Vision. So the Stone might have read Wanda's mind, saw that Pietro was a very dear person to her and spared him for her sake.
  • It's heavily implied that Wanda's probability manipulation powers gave Pietro an extremely rare but desirable outcome.
• It seems like a rather mean-spirited coincidence that the one house that isn't built is obviously on the plot of land Vision bought for Wanda, only having just the bare foundations. This is because the couple seemingly didn't visit the place after buying it and since the Snap likely took away the contractors involved and the client's only relative (Wanda), it's a wonder that the deed wasn't declared void due to a dead customer and sold to another.
  • With half the population gone, there was probably a huge surplus of houses.
• Wanda and Vision’s house is shown to change its floor plan with each passing decade. Episode 8 reveals that it was actually little more than a plot of land when Wanda created the Hex, so there wasn’t much of an established layout for her to work off of other than the house’s shape.
• When Wanda debuted in Age of Ultron, she had a very thick Sokovian accent. In the episode 8 flashback to Wanda and Vision at the Avengers Compound, set not too long after Pietro died,^note Wanda's hair is still dark brunette she's already lost most of the accent. While the real-life reason for Wanda's change of accent between Age of Ultron and Civil War was a case of Early-Installment Weirdness before she went on the run, this flashback suggests that the in-universe reason for this change is that like the Hex, Wanda was trying to avoid confronting her past. With her brother dead and her country no longer existing, she saw becoming an Avenger as effectively starting over with a clean slate, so why not shed herself of another constant painful reminder of her past? As the Toastmate ad says, "Forget the past, this is your future."
• Wanda claims in the Halloween episode that she's going as a "Sokovian fortune-teller". As seen in the flashbacks of episode 8, when Wanda looked into the Mind Stone, she saw a vision of herself in the Scarlet Witch uniform she dons in the finale. In other words, she was dressed as the omen of her future.
  • It's also appropriate because many of the visions Wanda subjected the Avengers to in Age of Ultron ultimately were omens of their futures:
    • In Tony's vision, Cap's shield was shown broken in half. Not only does the crack in the shield exactly resemble the hole in Ultron's chest after Wanda ripped his heart out at the end of the movie, but Cap's shield was destroyed by Thanos in Endgame.
    • Thor saw Asgard descending into ruin, with a blind Heimdall gleefully claiming "We are all dead"; ultimately, Asgard's population went on to be decimated by a combination of Hela's reign of terror during Thor: Ragnarok, Thanos's massacre of half of the survivors on the Statesman at the start of Infinity War, and half of the remaining survivors being dusted in the Snap. In said vision, Thor also saw a brief glimpse of Vision's eyes opening, which influenced his decision to use lightning to bring Vision to life.
    • Steve saw himself getting his dance with Peggy, which he ultimately got at the end of Endgame.
• Wanda controls the citizens of Westview and forces them to conform to the tropes and cliches of various sitcom eras, which comes easy for her since she's watched so many of them. One of the only two people in the town (the other being Vision) who isn't under Wanda's complete control is Agatha, but she plays her role as Agnes just as well as, and perhaps better than, her fellow Westview citizens. Being someone who's over 300 years old (at least), it's possible, if not likely, that she learned how to adjust her persona to changing times so as to blend in and avoid arousing suspicion, and this allowed her to hide in plain sight right in front of Wanda.
• The whole reveal of what Hayward did explains Wanda's reaction to seeing Monica wearing a S.W.O.R.D. emblem being to expel her from the Hex: because she thinks Monica is acting as one of Hayward's goons. Same goes for Wanda's unusually angry reaction when Monica reenters the Hex, tracks her down, and mentions Vision and Hayward.
  Monica: Listen to me. This whole thing, it's about Vision-
  Wanda: [seething] Get out of my house!
  Monica: Hayward was trying to bring him b-
  Wanda: [levitates Monica] DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT! THE DRONES! THE MISSILES! PIETRO!! [laughs darkly]
  Monica: Pietro? No-no-no-no, that wasn't us!
  Wanda: ALL YOU DO IS LIE!!!
  • The fact that Wanda mentions fake Pietro in S.W.O.R.D.'s list of transgressions is a telling thing. Remember how she reacted to his "Hey don't sweat it, sis, it's not like your dead husband can die twice" remark by violently throwing him aside? If she didn't already have suspicions he was a fraud, that would've been when it became apparent. Pietro wouldn't know about Vision's death at the hands of Thanos because he'd been dead for three years when that happened...but Hayward would know, since S.W.O.R.D. claimed Vision's body afterwards. She probably thought Ralph was another one of Hayward's men trying to play mind games on her, just like she initially suspected Monica to be doing, and had no idea that Agatha was reading her thoughts.
• The Reveal that Wanda and Pietro may have survived the attack that killed their parents because of her (dormant) powers making the second missile malfunction seems odd, right? Why go to such trouble when it's easy to just assume it it was a mechanical failure? Except these weren't any missiles: they were Stark missiles. And Tony Stark never builds anything that doesn't work the way it's supposed to (as long as Infinity Stones aren't involved).

Episode 9: The Series Finale

• The scene in the finale where Wanda and Vision are saying goodnight to their kids with the red Hex bubble looming in the background that the children cannot see is a visual Call-Back to the flashback of the night Wanda lost her parents, with her mother looking out the window and then returning to her children, peacefully oblivious.
• Episode 9 is titled "The Series Finale". It might seem a little on the nose at first, but this is also the episode that has Wanda take down the Hex for good, definitively ending the sitcom-reality she created. So the episode is the series finale in an In-Universe sense as well, as it marks the end of the false reality of the Hex.
• Just as Monica's '70s garb was equally bulletproof as the uniform she first entered the Hex in, the food truck that Darcy used to ram Hayward's military vehicle was originally a Bearcat (of the kind used by SWAT teams), explaining how she was able to stop him.
• Wanda says that, even if the Westview residents knew of what she sacrificed, it likely wouldn't change how they view her. Besides the obvious reason of what they went through under the Hex, along with lingering stigma from past actions in Civil War (accidents or no), it calls back to Wanda saying, "I can't control their fear; only my own." when overpowering Vision. Much like the people who feared her power after the Lagos bomb, she knows that the residents of Westview will fear her regardless of what she does. She knows it's not something she can change, so she doesn't try; instead, she goes into hiding to learn more about the power she possesses.
  • It also harkens back to Vision’s advice to Wanda in that same film regarding fear of their unknown potential: "I wish to understand it. The more I do, the less it controls me. One day, who knows? I may be able to control it." Wanda doesn't want to allow her fear and denial to dictate her powers anymore, and in choosing to learn more about them, she is accepting her identity.
• When Agatha states that Wanda is the Scarlet Witch, notice that Wanda's comebacks don't exactly refute the three conditions for someone to be the Scarlet Witch. If anything, she just confirmed it for Agatha.
  • "Not born but is forged." - While Wanda had powers from birth, her powers didn't become the iconic red kind until she was forged by the Mind Stone.
    Wanda: I'm not a witch!
  • "No coven." - Wanda was raised by a normal Sokovian family.
    Wanda: No one taught me magic!
  • "No need for incantation." - Wanda's magic doesn't require any words to trigger (unlike Agatha, who needs incantations, and Doctor Strange, who needs to gesture with his hands).
    Wanda: I don't cast spells!
• Despite the circumstances that led to it, Wanda leaving after making Agatha the only other sitcom character still fits within Hex logic: the finale of Wanda's "show" is the Backdoor Pilot to Agatha's.
• Wanda forms a cloak for her new outfit at the end of the final episode, not only to symbolize her fully embracing being the Scarlet Witch, but also to commemorate Vision. Notice how she doesn't form it until after she says goodbye to Vision again and it has similar textures to Vision's cape.
• Monica seems surprisingly non-reactive to a Skrull appearing before her and telling her an old friend of her mother wants to meet in space. But of course she wouldn't be freaked out, she's known about Skrulls and the intergalactic community since she was a child and probably has a good idea about who "he" is that wants to meet with her (either Talos or Fury).
• No one will bother Agatha? Of course not, 90% of what the bystanders saw out of her painted her very favorably, especially compared to Wanda. As far as most of them are concerned, she broke the spell on them (briefly), forced Wanda to see what she'd done to them, and ranted about how powerful and dangerous she was which is hardly a position the people Wanda subjected to Mind Rape would find unsympathetic. Not sure if they're aware of the fact that Agatha wanted the chaos magic for herself, but if so, well, better her than Wanda, in their minds. Oh, and they probably think she was under Wanda's control too, and thus feel solidarity with her. They might not believe she's a witch rather than a Gifted, but aside from controlling Ralph - who was already being controlled, and from the looks of it was in better shape than those under Wanda's control and might have gotten superpowers out of the deal - and fighting S.W.O.R.D., a black ops group who stormed through the town in tanks, they probably think of Agatha as a somewhat Unscrupulous Hero who tried to save them from Wanda, and succeeded, but paid a great price for it.
• Monica Rambeau defending Wanda and making sure she is okay more than the Westview residents makes sense when we learn that the residents can feel her pain and emotions. Subconsciously, Monica realizes Wanda's emotional wellbeing is tied to that of the citizens so she does have their safety in mind.
  • Also, Monica being the most forgiving of Wanda not only makes sense due to her familiarity with a person gaining powers they don't know how to handle from an infinity stone, but also because she was in the Hex the shortest compared to the rest of the Westview residents. Monica missed out on feeling Wanda's increased pain, drama and nightmares from her newer episodes, so she experienced way less torture and could be more empathetic and understanding.
• In Infinity War, Thanos killed Vision by gently touching his forehead while ripping out the Mind Stone. White Vision had his life given back to him when an alternate version of himself, a manifestation of Wanda's love for him, gently touches his forehead.

Fridge Horror

General

• To Wanda, it's only been three weeks since (a) she was forced to kill Vision, and (b) Thanos brought him back to life only to kill him again. Sounds like just enough time to binge-watch some old sitcoms and for new powers awakened through severe trauma to manifest.
  • Returning in the Blip also left Wanda with (on top of everything else) the problems of going on with life after a five-year absence, making her way in the chaos caused by millions of other people in that situation, and probably also a load of irrational survivor guilt because she came back to life and Vision didn't.
    • More importantly, how did S.W.O.R.D. get their hands on Vision's corpse without the rest of the Avengers coming down on their heads? Did they wait until the Avengers had mourned and buried/stored him, then stole and ran away with him? Or did they invade Wakanda to seize the body, taking advantage of the power vacuum and Wakanda becoming more accessible to the rest of the world (courtesy of T'Challa ending Wakanda's centuries-old isolationist policies)?
  • Episode five truncated this timeline even more, and added new wrinkles. Wanda visited S.W.O.R.D. nine days ago and had to see her (to her mind) freshly-dead lover dissected for study. And Hayward refused to let her take Vision's body for burial, so the Vision we've seen is a facsimile.
  • There's also the question of Wakanda's involvement in all this. Since the country is notoriously protective of anything related to Vibranium, and his body was last seen in the jungle outskirts of the main city, how did S.W.O.R.D convince them to hand over something as powerful as Vision, especially in the power vacuum created by T'Challa getting dusted?
• The fact that the whole show is about what happens when someone powered by an Infinity Stone is mentally and emotionally unstable. Just imagine if, instead of the Mind Stone, that someone was powered by the Time Stone.^note In Doctor Strange (2016) it is stated that the misuse of the Time Stone can destroy the very fabric of time itself Or the Power Stone.^note Noted in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) to be capable of obliterating entire planets "like wheat in a field" Or the Reality Stone.^note Intended to be used in Thor: The Dark World by the Dark Elves to reshape the entire universe Or worst of all, someone powered by all the Infinity Stones—much like Thanos—but with much more grief and selfish desires to bear.
• A lot is made of the consent issues regarding people having their memories involuntarily overwritten to line up with the narrative that Wanda (or whomever else might be behind it), but there's something else that probably has S.W.O.R.D. pulling a cover-up on this one: Given just how horrifying the last decade or so has been in the MCU and given the relatively idyllic pre-MCU world being depicted in the episodes, how many people on realizing that this is happening would attempt to simply pack up and go in?
  • Given that we see that the people in Westview lose their own identities (most pressingly, their own memories, personalities, and names), their children (save for special occasions like Halloween), and their own physical mobility depending on where they are in the town, it is very doubtful someone would want to willingly be assimilated unless they were extremely uninformed.
    • But what if they were extremely uninformed? And even knowing what the risks are, how many might still think a shot at a perfectly happy lie is better than the certainty of a bleak reality?
• If you think about it, Wanda may as well have made the top of Karl Mordo’s hitlist. If there’s anyone who hates magic more than the people of Westview, it’s Mordo. He’s on an active crusade to depower or kill any magic user in the world, and what has transpired in Westview is more than enough of an example of a magic user abusing their powers.
  • Although considering that she's canonically stronger than Doctor Strange (though significantly less skilled), there's a very small chance that Karl will win.
  • This may be one of the reasons Wanda appears in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
• Throughout the Avengers films, particularly Civil War and Infinity War, it's pretty clear that the Avenger to whom Wanda is the closest (besides Vision) is Steve Rogers. He is very protective of and kind to her, and is the only one to defend her against Tony. After Thanos is destroyed and those who were Dusted return, it would seem natural for Wanda to turn to Steve for support in her grief. But Steve is gone now too—he left the timeline to go live out his life with Peggy Carter. Wanda is even more alone than we thought.
  • Last we see Steve, he's an old man. But, he very likely could've died of old age by the time of this series. The only other people Wanda could go to are Clint Barton (she was close to him too, and he's going through the same thing with Natasha's death), and Peter Parker, who's now Public Enemy #1 after the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home, and him being hated by everyone is not unlike Wanda's predicament. Although canonically, this wouldn't happen until eight months after the end of the series, so Clint seems like the most immediate friend to turn to.
  • Peter Parker is a strange one to mention because Wanda has had at most one line of interaction with him during the Battle of Upstate New York. The only Avengers left besides Clint who have a relationship with her (Thor, because he left Earth right after Age of Ultron, doesn't count) and/or don't have any reason to hate her (Bruce Banner, although he doesn't seem to have any enmity towards her in Infinity War) are Sam Wilson and James Rhodes, who were New Avengers with her. But Sam's got more pressing issues on his plate; and Rhodey's still an active-duty member of the military, so he has other pressing engagements as well.
  • What makes this even more tragic is that Wanda also had to deal with Natasha's death. By Infinity War, it's clear the two women have become close as family, with Natasha prepared to die protecting Wanda from Proxima Midnight. This makes her comforting Clint over Natasha's sacrifice much more heart wrenching, since Wanda lost another person close to her. Combined with Vision and Steve's (probable) deaths, is it any wonder she felt so alone and empty that her grief was intense enough to create the Hex?

Episode 1: Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience

• Vision doesn't attempt a Heimlich maneuver on Mr. Hart to save him from choking because he demonstrated just a few minutes earlier that he can't control his strength when trying to help Wanda tenderize meat (instead pulverizing it). Except earlier in the episode, it's shown Vision has Power Incontinence in general because when he is carrying Wanda into their new home, he accidentally phases himself through the door. He could have easily accidentally killed Mr. Hart by phasing his hand through his throat and solidifying his body before removing his hand from his throat.
  • Another reason why Vision doesn't perform a Heimlich maneuver: the technique wasn't invented until 1974, which would make it completely anachronistic in a 1950s sitcom. How many other aspects of modern medicine might be necessary in Westview, but not used?
  • While her husband is choking, all Mrs. Hart can say is "Oh, stop it!", as if Mr. Hart were merely playing a prank instead of being in danger of losing his life. While this is unsettling in and of itself, it becomes more disturbing if you interpret the line as her asking Wanda to "stop it." Then the true meaning of the line isn't Mrs. Hart asking her husband to stop joking around, but rather her begging Wanda to stop letting her husband potentially die.
• In Infinity War, when Wanda and Vision are picked up in Scotland by the fugitive Avengers, Natasha criticizes them for staying together longer than planned. Wanda's response? "We just wanted time." We now see just how far she'll go to have more time with Vision.
  • More so when one realizes that Vision had already bought the property in Westview, and if Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight hadn't ambushed him when they did, he was probably about to confess this to Wanda.
• The dinner scene is even more horrifying once it's revealed the Harts are actually married in real life. Mrs. Hart begging Wanda to 'stop it' is her pleading with Wanda to not let her husband die.

Episode 2: Don't Touch That Dial

Episode 3: Now in Color

• Wanda's Theme has a single woman wailing. In episode 3, Wanda's screaming while giving birth sound quite similar to that wail. That single woman wailing could likely be Wanda's own wailing.

Episode 4: We Interrupt This Program

• The only reason the authorities became aware of what was going on in Westview is that there happened to be a protected witness in the town who failed to check in with Jimmy Woo. If that witness wasn't placed there, the people of Westview could potentially have been trapped forever and their very memory wiped from the minds of anyone who knew them.
• The end of episode 3 sees that S.W.O.R.D. has set up a large base outside of Westview similar to the one that S.H.I.E.L.D. had in the first Thor movie. Episode 4 has shown the base has only been there for a couple of days, but we still don't know how long the town has been inaccessible.
• When Monica blips back into existence, she’s sitting in the same chair she dusted in. What would’ve happened if someone was sitting in that chair when she blipped back?
  • Maybe she would have blipped on their lap. Would still be an awkward situation for those involved though.
  • Word of God has said Banner made sure everyone who got dusted returned in a safe location, so no one is reappearing in the air or underwater, and no one is occupying the same space as they are.

Episode 5: On a Very Special Episode...

Episode 6: All-New Halloween Spooktacular!

• More of a Fridge Disgusting, but Pietro offhandedly mentions "the year we got typhus", followed by a flashback of an old woman giving a young Wanda a dead fish. As typhus is spread by body lice, he's implying that they got lice from her.

Episode 7: Breaking the Fourth Wall

• With the reveal that Hayward defied Vision's will and wanted him as a weapon, Monica also has to swallow the fact that Hayward, a respected colleague (and possibly old friend), has betrayed the ideals of the organization her mother founded while Monica was gone. Which begs the question: if Hayward abused his power to revive Vision as a weapon and planned to kill Wanda to cover his tracks, that probably wasn't the only way he was abusing his authority.
• Episode 7's reveal shows that Agatha Harkness was merely acting when Vision used his powers to "reawaken" her. With that in mind, what if Vision isn't actually capable of freeing anyone from the Hex's mind control? What if Agatha temporarily undid the effects of the brainwashing of both Abilash and Darcy in order to give Vision the impression he has an ability he doesn't actually have?
  • This episode also reveals that Agatha is the one conducting the Confession Cam-style interviews with the other characters of the show. Except... one of the characters who is interviewed as part of the show is Darcy, who only entered the Hex fairly recently. Granted, she's playing the part of an "escape artist" as part of her Hex-created character, but it still means that Agatha likely knows that Darcy exists and possibly who she actually is. Meanwhile, Darcy herself doesn't seem to remember or acknowledge the weirdness of being interviewed by an unseen woman after being reawakened.
• Agatha's quirky confessional about having bitten a child once is played for laughs in the middle of Episode 7, but takes on a ghastly tone when combined with the missing child photo on the milk carton earlier in the episode and the reveal that she is a witch, an archetype generally associated with child cannibalism.
  • It gets even worse when you remember Wanda sent Billy and Tommy to her house. And when Wanda got there, they're nowhere to be seen and Agatha's comments on where they are reek of False Reassurance after The Reveal. And then it takes a whole episode before Wanda finds out they're still alive and being used by Agatha as hostages.

Episode 8: Previously On

• While they're trying to do good, it's very clear that S.W.O.R.D. is taking a big chunk of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s playbook as their own, specifically the "messing around with alien technology for secretive hidden purposes" part. As history has repeatedly shown, this is an incredibly bad idea, and S.W.O.R.D. is probably lucky that the most Wanda did was recreate her own Vision.
  • The reveals in episodes 7 and 8 make it even worse by revealing that Wanda never took Vision's body - S.W.O.R.D. continued its experiments and reassembled Vision's body, against his wishes, turning him into the weapon he never wished to be. If not for Hex Vision restoring White Vision's memories, what would Hayward have used White Vision to do beyond killing Wanda?
• Episode 8 shows the sudden and brutal deaths of Wanda's parents by military ordnance in the Sokovian civil war, where it's implied the Maximoffs ignoring the fighting in the streets and having a normal TV night was a rare luxury for their children.
  • Just to make it hurt a little more, it's likely that the reason they were targeted was because they had their lights on. The family's one respite from the world was ultimately the very thing that killed them.
• When we see Wanda driving to the empty lot Vision had bought for them to build a house on, we see that Westview is a dying small town, run-down, marginally populated, lots of businesses closed and buildings abandoned, the people who are left just barely hanging on. Wanda is repeatedly stated to be a telepath. How much hopelessness, despair, anger, and depression did she pick up from the citizens on that drive? How much did that add to her already stressed mental state? How much of her trapping those people in the Hex with her was a misguided attempt to help them, to "fix" their dying town and bring happiness back to their lives... whether they liked it or not?

Episode 9: The Series Finale

• Vision points out in episode 5 that he's not seen a single child besides his own two during his time in Westview. Then we learn in the last episode that Wanda put them in the same place all the black people went when the series was in the almost-all-white Fifties look: Hidden "off-screen", away from the action and out of sight, until they're needed.
• Episode 9 shows us that because of the brainwashing from the Hex, the residents of Westview won't remember a thing about Wanda releasing them at the cost of the illusionary Vision and her family. All of them glare in contempt at her as she takes her leave of the place. Wanda herself lampshades that their emotions wouldn't change much even if they did remember. This brings several points to the forefront:
  • One: how many times has Wanda done something heroic and never gotten due credit for it? Her acts are merely under the umbrella of the overall Avengers team and those which do highlight her are the ones that provoke the opposite reaction.
    • Wanda may have killed Ultron (his main body anyway) and many of his Sentries, but the fight still destroyed Novi Grad, killing many innocents on the ground, both starting the path towards the Sokovia Accords and driving Helmut Zemo to seek revenge.
    • Wanda saved civilians from Crossbones' suicide bombing but still mistakenly got 26 people killed in trying to relocate the blast, cementing her incompetence as a hero to the global community and providing an excuse for power-hungry politicians with agendas to impose the Sokovia Accords, tearing the Avengers apart^note of all the Avengers inmates in the Raft, Wanda by far is treated the harshest because of her powers and instability.
    • Utterly curb-stomping two different versions of Thanos - the 2018 version in Wakanda (and killing Vision in an attempt to keep Thanos from getting the Mind Stone, all rendered for naught because he had the Time Stone to undo it), and the alternate timeline version in upstate New York - gets overshadowed by Tony's sacrifice, and the fact that the details of the battle are murky for taking place far away from high-density areas, and specific details likely classified by the government.
  • Two: publicly, does Wanda have anything to show? Wanda has never cultivated a positive public image unlike her fellow Avengers. Steve, Thor and Tony have good PR or at least didn't actively shun the spotlight when it was on them; Sam and Rhodes are former Air Force soldiers who sacrificed aplenty for their country; Natasha and Barton at least were former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who would know how to keep a low profile when needed. Even Hulk, who back in his starting days was constantly on the run from General Ross and the US Army is now able to take selfies with kids without fear of persecution. The rest like Ant-Man, are just lucky to not be as well-known. No one outside the Avengers seems to know how heroic she truly is. Her actions in Sokovia, Lagos and now Westview make Wanda the perfect target for those who oppose metahumans: with emotional vulnerability, a criminal record with HYDRA (which Hayward exploited), and (again) a poor track record. The average citizen has no reason to deny that Wanda is the villain that Hayward and Westview's residents are already convinced she is. She has nothing that anyone can defend her beyond wishful thinking, since there is no prior evidence of singlehanded acts of atruism she can be tied to. That does wonders for Wanda's psyche, being the most hated and seemingly unsympathetic member of the Avengers.
  • Three: how will each resident of Westview react specifically to Wanda's spell after the effects of the Hex completely wear off and S.W.O.R.D. pack up and leave? Captain America: Civil War happened because Helmut Zemo, an ordinary man with genius-level intellect, decided to tear the Avengers apart from the inside in revenge for the deaths of his family, and succeeded. What's to say someone in Westview doesn't become the next Zemo, hell-bent on killing Wanda for putting them through such mental torture? And this time, the Avengers are disbanded for good, apparently with no lifeline for Wanda to hold on to for support or solace. That itself could cause even more damage for her enemies to exploit.
  • Four: Wanda doesn't have a good track record. She did do good deeds, but her first appearance in the MCU was subjecting Tony to a vision of his dead teammates, and then letting him leave with the scepter in hopes that he would destroy himself. Tony proceeded to use the Mind Stone to create Ultron, itself the culmination of a long line of misguided actions Tony did in the name of world peace (along with his contributions to Project Insight, the Sokovia Accords, and EDITH). No one outside the Avengers seems to know that, fortunately for her, because that would technically be a war crime; Steve agrees to cover for Wanda because he understands she and Pietro got in over their heads. Then Lagos happened, which showed the public what she could do in a bad way. In addition to not creating a better image for herself, Wanda doesn't seem good at damage control, in the literal or metaphorical sense, when away from the Avengers. And with the Westview incident, where she actively continues to maintain the Hex even after learning of her grief-stricken spell, she is only digging herself deeper with a fresh act of moral ambiguity on a massive scale. Given how mentally tormented the townspeople were by her thoughts, it's unlikely that they or anyone who learns about the incident will immediately jump to Wanda's defence. At best, they'll shun her. At worst, the powerful ones of the lot (people like Hayward, Ross or other supervillains) will actively try to kill her, incarcerate her and/or experiment on her like HYDRA.
• It's highly likely that Wanda's love of sitcoms has been forever tainted, now that she'll likely associate them with the Mind Rape she unintentionally inflicted upon the people of Westview, not to mention seeing Vision die for a third time.
• The children of Westview were for the most part kept asleep when they weren't woken up for the Halloween episode. Given the citizens claimed they saw Wanda's nightmares when they slept, an entire generation of Westview's children was likely scarred for however long Wanda imprisoned them.
  • On a related note, "For the children" from Episode 2 becomes a lot more tragic in hindsight. The adults of Westview were probably terrified for their children suffering from Wanda's nightmares, and the chant may have been their way of staying strong in the face of the Reality Warper holding them prisoner and invading their minds.
• Why did White Vision immediately fly off once he regained his memories? Because he now remembers Wanda, the woman he tried to brutally kill barely five minutes before; even if he has no emotional attachment to her, that's not the sort of thing you can just shake off.
• How do you square the appearance of the Darkhold here with its appearance in Runaways (2017) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? It looks completely different and is a different size. AOS actually demonstrates that it has looked differently in the past. However, there is a darker explanation possible. Just as in the comics, there is more than one, and Agatha had a copy. How many are there...?
  • Alternatively, they could be two completely different books that have garnered extremely similar reputations over the ages to where the legends about them got consolidated. What have their readers been responsible for that made people want to believe there was only one nightmare book in an attempt to make them seem less terrifying?
• Within the week or so that the Hex was in place, the townsfolk were already begging for death. When Agatha (and let's be honest it is a when) reawakens, it's not going to be pretty.
  • Considering she's the only sitcom character left, Agnes might get glimpses of her old self in the middle of one of her "episodes". What's going to happen to her when she realizes she's been Agatha All Along?
    • Just because Wanda absorbed her powers, it doesn't mean that Agatha's absorbing powers are permanently gone. Now that the runes have been dispelled, chances are she can easily absorb the spell.
• It is safe to assume Wanda's final decision to trap Agatha inside her Agnes persona will further traumatize the Westview residents, even if they consider Agatha as much responsible for what happened as Wanda. Not only they now live with a constant reminder of what happened, but they now have to live with the living proof that Wanda is still capable of mind raping all of them and the fear she may do so one day.
  • Adding onto this, where is Agatha going to live? She believes she lives in Ralph Bohner's house, and he's unlikely to appreciate being reminded of his own Mind Rape at Agatha's hands. If he's truly an empowered individual, he'd also have the power to keep her out.
  • Wanda also told Agatha, "no one will ever bother you," which seems like a strange thing to say considering that she's a living reminder of the town's experience at her hands. Did she mean that Agatha will be trapped in the town but invisible to the residents? Because that brings up plenty of horrific implications on its own.
• When Wanda visits S.W.O.R.D. to try and claim Vision's body, he's been dissected. Two weeks later, he's been reassembled to become White Vision. But notice that when Hex Vision prepares to transfer Wanda's memories to him, White Vision flinches as if Hex Vision was about to hurt him. Did Hayward maybe make him relive subconscious memories of when Thanos killed him?

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