Another week and another bit of trippy Prestige TV.
Oh wait, something a bit different this time on...
We see Monica Rambeau- the little girl from Captain Marvel- and Agent Woo- from Ant-Man & The Wasp- are sent to investigate a missing...Town?!?
Speaking of Side Characters, we also get the MCU return of Darcy Lewis, last seen in 2013's Thor: The Dark World.
She's called in to investigate as well, since SWORD has no idea what the issue is, so it's 'all hands of deck' to decipher it.
She discovers a strange energy signature and taps into the Show within a Show called WandaVision.
That's clever enough to not be obnoxiously-META, but just barely.
We see other aspects of how the team tried to contact those inside the missing Town, which gives context to earlier Scenes.
There's also a big reveal or two near the end, but no SPOILERS. To find out how it goes, stream the Episode.
A neat aside and a twist on the usual Prestige TV Show Cliche. Way back when I reviewed more of these Shows that weren't Comic Book-based, I talked about certain patterns. One of which was the Random Flashback Episode, which often came in the middle of big points in the Story. American Gods did it for the Wife, The Handmaid's Tale did it for the Husband and so on. This is the same thing, but feels a bit more organic. We just had a big break point in the Story with the end of Episode 3, so it was organic. In contrast, the other Shows would just drop everything and tell you backstory. Those Episodes were good, but a bit forced. What they do here which I really like is tie this Show extra-firmly into the MCU. We get Characters we haven't seen in a long time and they feel like a natural fit for the Story. This isn't like the old Marvel tradition of having Spider-Man/Wolverine Guest-Star in a Book's 1st or 2nd Issue to drum up sales. I can't wait to see how this part of the Story and the WandaVision part integrate more. While I do that, I have to wonder how long it is until this little guy ends up in BestBuy as a Promotional Tie-In...
Next time, a new Episode. Can I say more without SPOILERS? See you then...
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