WandaVision

WandaVision is one of Marvel's greatest works, in my opinion, and it touched my soul more than almost any other series or movie. The main idea was also as completely novel as it was simple, as far as I'm aware. To adequately comment on the main idea of the miniseries, I'll have to give a bit of a spoiler. The spoiler will ruin some of the excellent development and twists that lead up to us figuring out what's truly going on in Wandaville, but on the other hand, who hasn't seen WandaVision by now that's ever going to see it? 

I can personally relate to the idea of unconsciously psychically controlling the actions of everyone around me in order to avoid their leading me to face some very uncomfortable truth. I don't even know why; it's for metaphysical reasons whose possible interpretations are as varied as they are subtle. I don't know if it's just me or if this is more of a universal nerve the writers have pressed, but just the fact that they made a miniseries based on this ostensibly strange premise seems to indicate it's the latter. 

In Wanda's case, the uncomfortable truth being avoided is the death of her lover, Vision, while I think the personal and/or universal nerve it touches has more to do with deep-seated shame as a result of the harm one has caused others. However, being torn apart by the death of a loved one is in itself one of the most powerful  and relatable psychological forces, and furthermore, I believe the other thing Wanda is avoiding confronting is the manner in which she's hurting everyone in the town a great deal by psychically controlling and entrapping them in the first place, so the need to further control them becomes a vicious circle, like so many of the most dangerous pitfalls in life.

One interesting thing of note is how confident Wanda is in her decisions, fighting with all her might against the witch who's there to bring her reckoning, even after having been brought to realize on a conscious level what she'd been doing. I think this is an example of how one can go wrong by having total trust in themselves while not realizing that they're capable of being deeply in the moral wrong. In this case, you only realize your folly after it's too late, and in Wanda's case, her only redemption involved making the ultimate sacrifice later on in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (yes, sorry, another spoiler).

Another interesting thing the line between life and death that Vision unwittingly treads. He's only given animation by Wanda's powers, but at the same time it's as if he has a life of his own. He doesn't realize he's dead at first or that he's being controlled by Wanda, and he becomes confused and angry when he eventually realizes/confronts the fact that he can't remember his past. 

I also enjoyed the fact that we got to see Elizabeth Olsen in a major acting role. For 32 years all we had ever heard about were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. I didn't even know they had a younger sister before WandaVision, let alone that she's a good actress. And on top of that she's really cute! The Scarlet Witch (a.k.a. Wanda Maximoff) was in movies before WandaVision, but I guess I'd just never realized whom she was played by.

I don't watch a lot of movies or TV series, but I'm very glad I watched this one.