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My thoughts as I just watch through this

I think the sitcom tones are nailed sooooo perfectly. The sets, the mannerisms, the attitudes. The openings and commercials and stuff are phenomenal. The attention to detail deserves so much praise, this doesn't feel low effort at all. As Deadpool might say, this is Maximoff Effort.

There's a bit of a problem I have with it though.... I feel like the very early scene where Wanda and Vision are chatting before Vis goes off to his first day at work is ABSOLUTELY pitch perfect. All of the jokes they make are absolutely in the sticom era style, but completely work in the modern context of Wanda and Vision's superhuman / non human natures, AND is actually funny. That's the tightrope they have to walk here - pay homage to the original style, work in tandem with what's currently happening and not just force everything to fit the norms of when the old sitcoms were actually made, and actually be funny. "I say well I don't eat food." "Well that explains the empty refrigerator" and the mannerisms Vision makes when he takes his disguise to go off to work and then blows a kiss to Wanda captures this perfectly. Vision's desk mate at work does this very well too. He talks around Vision's questions and feels like a guy from that era and is an entertaining guy on top of it. (And later on in ep 5 he has a very well acted harrowing moment) Nailing this note consistently is what would make this show a greatest of all time masterpiece.

I'm not so sure it consistently does this though. At times I think it's just doing sitcom tropes to show it can do them. I thought most of the boss and his wife visiting in ep1 and the magic show in ep 2 were kinda like this. I didn't think they were that funny and including other elements of the show as much as they could be.

That said, I'm overall loving this. It's very clear Wanda is acting very villainous, and how much blame she gets for this I guess comes down to how aware of what she's doing she is. Early on it seems not so aware, but it as the show goes on it seems she's very aware, and her confrontation with the SWORD people seems pretty undeniable.

But I love how Vision's nature as a hero shines through at every opportunity as he's trying to piece together what's going on. He's great, and the resulting tension between Vision and Wanda perfectly slides back in and out of the sitcom tone.

I really like the trio of Agent Woo, Darcy, and Monica Rambeau. I think there's a lot of potential there. The leader guy was alright to begin with but they are just pushing him way too much as the "boneheaded military guy who aggravates and escalates every situation just because he's the boneheaded military guy".

...Is Pietro played by the Fox X-Men Quicksilver's actor????

I think people ITT might be reading a bit too much into townspeoples behaviours. It seems they have varying levels of conscious and subsconsious awareness of Wanda controlling the town, so they sometimes subconsciously slip something that implies whats going on (like the mailman or whatever saying Wanda will find the dog or whatever when the kids are looking for it) or directly when people like Agnes or Herb ask her directly if she needs them to do something related to the meta.

Though there are some convincing coincidences with Agnes, I still lean away from her being any sort of cause though.

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