WANDAVISION.

• Author: Soave, Robby
• Position: TELEVISION

Wanda Maximoff can't recall exactly how she took over a New Jersey town, mind-controlled its inhabitants, and launched a fake sitcom co-starring her deceased husband and imaginary children. "I only remember feeling completely alone," she confesses. "Empty. Just endless nothingness."

The audience can relate. Disney+'s Wanda Vision, a new installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, entered production before COVID-19 swept the globe, yet it perfectly encapsulates the feelings of grief, confusion, and isolation born of the pandemic. Over the course of nine episodes--most of which mirror a classic sitcom formula, from Bewitched to Modern Family--we learn that Wanda is still mourning the death of her beloved Vision, an android and fellow member of the superhero group the Avengers. Consumed with grief, Wanda uses her considerable telepathic and telekinetic superpowers to create a fantasy...