It’s the penultimate episode of “WandaVision” and since the show has already done every sitcom trope under the sun, how about a clip show? Only it’s “WandaVision’s” special remix of a clip show as Wanda is shown key moments in her past that could be the key to understanding how she came to control Westview in “Previously On.”
Door Number 1| Beginning with a flashback to Salem, Massachusetts circa the 1600s, Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) is about to be executed, not by witch hunters, but by her fellow witches because she used black magic. They try to use their powers to kill her, but their magical blasts simply bounce off Agatha and kill them instead. In present day, Agatha has Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) captive in her basement, thanks to ancient runes that prevent her magic. Agatha simply has one question for Wanda: How’d she do it? But a magician never reveals their secrets! I know, I know…
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With the threat that she will kill Billy and Tommy if she doesn’t cooperate, Wanda has no choice but to play along as Agatha makes doors appear that take Wanda back to her childhood in Sokovia. Her parents kept bringing home DVDs of classic sitcoms so the family could learn English and Wanda’s favorite was “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” In fact, that’s the very show they were watching when a bomb destroyed their house and killed the parents! The second bomb, labelled Stark Industries, doesn’t go off, and Agatha believes that’s because Wanda cast a spell.
Saying Goodbye | Door number two leads to Wanda in a HYDRA experimentation room where they put her with the Mind Stone from Loki’s scepter to give her powers. When the stone interacts with her, Wanda briefly sees a figure that looks an awful lot like the classic comic Scarlet Witch! Agatha believes that the Mind Stone amplified what was already there and shows her moments between her and Vision (Paul Bettany) just to torture her, before going for the throat: She shows Wanda at SWORD headquarters after the Snap victims have returned, trying to get Vision’s body back so she can give him a funeral.
Director Hayward (Josh Stamberg) shows her that they’ve been dismantling Vision’s body due to how dangerous it could be in the wrong hands, and is also a colossal dick about it, telling Wanda that Vision doesn’t belong to her. Wanda walks out and sullenly drives to Westview, where it turns out that Vision had bought a plow of land for the two of them to build a house and live there. Wanda breaks down and a mass of red energy radiates from her, rewriting all of Westview to the sitcom world and creating a new Vision.
Agatha creates one final door for Wanda and when she walks through it, she ends up in the street outside her house, where Agatha has magical ropes around Billy and Tommy’s throats. She tells Wanda that she did all this using chaos magic- meaning that she is the Scarlet Witch. Outside the Hex, Hayward uses magic funneled from a Wanda affected drone to power up another android that looks exactly like Vision…
“WandaVision” is now streaming on Disney+