As someone who
grew up watching re-runs of Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, I
Dream of Genie, Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, etc. I really
loved the commitment to the 1950's and 1960's esthetic. It is so weird to keep hearing people online refer to "I Love Lucy" and "I
Dream of Genie" in reference to this show, when the sets they use in the first episode is almost
exactly the same as the Dick Van Dyke Show and Bewitched sets, even down
to the [SPOILER] fact that Bewitched started out black and white and
then became a color series later in the late 60's.
I understand
people who are eager to figure out what's "really" going on, but I am
content to just enjoy each episode for what they are:
celebrations/send-ups of classic TV shows seen through the eyes of
Scarlet Witch and how her sub-conscious is building this comforting
world for herself while whatever "really" is happening is happening.
One of the interesting tropes of 1950's TV I had forgotten about is the grumpy, even abusive, boss whose constant disrespect and belittling of his employees is never questioned, or even remarked upon, by the other characters. It was just simply taken as a fact of life that people in power could say and do whatever they want. Perhaps this partially explains why the MAGA crowd never seem to question Trump's behavior.
I
have always loved Scarlet Witch and Vision in the Marvel Avengers movies. Their powers are some of
the coolest in the MCU. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE if we got a proper
Avengers/X-Men video game where we got to play as Scarlet Witch or
Vision someday. (Not sure why no other game studio has tried to simply
copy what SuckerPunch did with Infamous Second Son, which is basically
the best 3D open-world X-Men video game ever made.)
Can't wait to
see where the rest of this series goes. Some of the shots from the trailers seem to imply we will get at least one or two full on superhero episodes, probably near the end. It looks like the next few episodes will be send-ups of The Brady Bunch (1970's) and Family Ties (1980's). I am VERY curious if the 1990's episode will be a Full House send-up. How could it not with Elizabeth Olsen's sisters' being the stars??? Maybe too on-the-nose? If they do it, will we see a cameo from the Olsen Twins? That would be to crazy, right? I am guessing that Friends would be the 2000's sitcom. They could then go just bat-shit insane with the 2010's shows and have Randall Park reprise his Fresh Of the Boat character and Kat Dennings reprise her 2 Broke Girls character (both with MCU characters seen in the trailers) in a Parks & Rec mish-mash of all the 2010's sitcoms before the false reality shatters from all the absurdity.
Anyway, right now I'm just glad to have
some more Marvel stories to watch. It's been SOOOO LONG!!! I can't wait to see where this all goes.
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