WandaVision: Episodes 7 and 8
***SPOILERS AHEAD***
Wow. Just wow. Honestly guys, my mouth has basically just been hanging open ever since watching the two latest installments of WandaVision. And because I’m an idiot, I totally thought episode 8 was the finale but it appears it’s not! Which is cool because it means more WandaVision but also not because I am impatient and want all the answers now, thank you very much.
Okay, so in episode 7, we really start to see things just straight up fall apart. Vision is gone. Wanda wakes up alone, the boys off playing video games, and things start glitching. When she is pouring her cereal, the almond milk carton transforms, going back in time until it is a glass milk bottle. The boys’ video game controllers also revert back in time. Basically, things aren’t going well. Luckily, Agnes comes over and volunteers to watch the boys so Wanda can have some alone time. Meanwhile, Vision wakes up and finds Darcy and the two head from the outskirts of town to try to get back to Wanda, but the Westview universe is working against them. Monica and Jimmy, still on the outside of the Hex, are preparing a space rover to try to get Monica safely into the Hex without messing with her DNA any further. And then everything comes to a head. The rover doesn’t make it through the barrier, so Monica “walks” in, only she doesn’t actually walk. More like pushes through and undergoes a serious transformation. And then at the end of the episode, the big reveal (which I actually didn’t know about because I have never read any of the comic books). It was Agatha all along! Do-do-do-do-do-do-do!
Episode 8 is the reckoning. Agatha has the boys trapped and she forces Wanda to relive her past so that Agatha can find out her secret, how she got to be so powerful. Wanda is starting to figure things out, about the same speed I am starting to figure things out (so super slowly). We see that Wanda didn’t actually steal Vision’s body like what’s his face said she did. And we see that Westview wasn’t some arbitrary creation. Vision bought them a plot of land before he died, and when Wanda goes to visit the plot, her grief basically triggers her power explosion and creates the town as we’ve been seeing it. Oh and there’s a credits scene that blew my mind.
So obviously we still have a lot of unanswered questions. We don’t know what really happened to Monica. I imagine the comic book readers have some idea, but that’s not me so I’m clueless. We don’t know what’s going on with Vision and Darcy. We do know Agatha and Wanda are going to come to blows and I expect it is going to be massive.
Originally I was on team this is Wanda there’s no big bad, but in reality, it looks like it was both Wanda and a big bad. Wanda’s grief compelled her to create this second world, this escape so she doesn’t have to deal with losing Vision. But Agatha is clearly a big bad and some shit is going to go down. All this to say, these were some of the best episodes of the show and I was surprised with every new twist. Also, episode 8 in particular made me super emotional. I honestly have no idea how this is going to end, but I can’t wait to tune in and see!
