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Dylan Roth Mar 5, 2021. 12 minute read
WandaVision Episode 9 “The Series Finale” Review
Enjoying serialized television requires patience. Since the story is ongoing, you have to give the storytellers the benefit of the doubt that whatever dangling thread or dodgy narrative choice that’s bothering you is doing so on purpose, that you may see it resolved in a satisfying way by the end.…
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Dylan Roth Feb 26, 2021. 10 minute read
WandaVision Episode 8 “Previously On” Review
With just one episode left to go, the latest WandaVision finally fills in the part of the story we’ve been missing — the beginning. “Previously On” tells not just the story of how Wanda Maximoff came to reprogram a New Jersey suburb on a molecular level, but her entire origin…
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Dylan Roth Feb 19, 2021. 7 minute read
WandaVision Episode 7 “Breaking the Fourth Wall” Review
We’re approaching the climax of WandaVision, as the final pieces of the series’ overarching puzzles are revealed with two episodes remaining to snap them into place. “Breaking the Fourth Wall” is a particularly eventful chapter, featuring a villainous reveal, a superhero debut, and one, presumably final television homage. WandaVision began…
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Dylan Roth Feb 12, 2021. 7 minute read
WandaVision Episode 6 “All-New Halloween Spooktacular” Review
Each week on WandaVision, Wanda Maximoff’s psychically-constructed television fantasy has advanced itself forward in the history of the American sitcom, not only updating the production design but the style of comedy and tone. As the consequences of Wanda’s new reality become more complicated, so too does the world she creates…
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Dylan Roth Feb 5, 2021. 9 minute read
WandaVision Episode 5 “On a Very Special Episode…” Review
Last week’s WandaVision broke from the format of the series up to that point, taking us out of the sitcom artifice and dropping us into a more familiar Marvel Studios production. At the time, I was disappointed that the curtain had been drawn so early, that we were seemingly giving…
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Dylan Roth Jan 29, 2021. 7 minute read
WandaVision Episode 4 “We Interrupt This Program” Review
After three episodes that held to a rigid but intriguing formula, WandaVision’s fourth chapter is a dramatic departure from what we’ve seen so far, a more conventional drama that investigates the show-within-a-show from without. Utilizing the familiar tone of a Marvel movie (though mostly sans action), “We Interrupt This Program”…
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Dylan Roth Jan 22, 2021. 6 minute read
WandaVision Episode 3 “Now In Color” Review
This week’s new WandaVision clearly marks the end of act one of the nine-part event series, changing the stakes of the fantasy world in which the main characters are living as well as giving us our first peek at what’s really going on. As with the first two episodes, the…
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Dylan Roth Jan 15, 2021. 7 minute read
Wandavision Episode 1 & 2 Review
In the bleakness of the 21st century entertainment landscape, discussions of art and business are totally inseparable. Nowhere is that more true than when talking about any new entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Disney-owned behemoth that has grossed over $8 billion theatrically and irrevocably changed the movie business.…
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