On A Very Special Episode… Review: MoVision Work in Different Phases to Solve the Mystery of ‘WandaVision’

On a Very Special Episode of “WandaVision,” Tommy and Billy take in a stray puppy and Vision becomes aware of Wanda’s deception. Meanwhile, outside of WandaVision, Monica Rambeau, Jimmy Woo and Dr. Darcy Lewis are working to determine how Wanda is changing reality at such a massive scale.

On a Very Special Episode devotes nearly equal screen time to the events outside of Westview and to the WandaVision tv show. The focus on both phases leads to the best content in the MCU since Avengers: Endgame.

Vision is no longer under Wanda’s spell and begins putting the pieces together. Paul Bettany’s performance in this episode is the best male acting since Robert Downey Jr.’s final moment as Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame. It should come as no surprise that Elizabeth Olsen rises to the literal and metaphorical occasion as well, but it’s another female character that takes the spotlight.

Thanks to the efforts of showrunner Jac Schaeffer, director Matt Shakman, Kevin Feige and the remarkable performance from Teyonah Parris, Monica Rambeau in just two appearances is one of if not the best female character in the MCU. Despite the trauma of the last episode, she’s doesn’t have a vendetta against Wanda and is determined to return to Westview. Even Director Hayward, as bland as he is, works as an antagonist opposite Monica, Jimmy and Darcy.

With the non-spoiler details out of the way, let’s dive into storylines and possible theories of On A Very Special Episode… WandaVision is currently streaming on Disney Plus.

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Achieving 20/20 Vision On A Very Special Episode

The episode begins with an 80s style cold open. Wanda and Vision are trying to get the newborn twins to quiet down. When all seems lost, Agnes arrives to help with the infants. Vision makes an innocuous comment about Agnes’s hair and the scene comes to a crashing halt. In a well-played acting beat by Kathryn Hahn, Agnes breaks character and asks Wanda if she wants her to “take it again from the top.” After an awkward beat, Agnes gets back into her character.

The break-in character doesn’t go unnoticed by Vision, but before he could prod further, the twins have disappeared from their cradles. They pop up behind their parents and are now 5-years-old. Cue the Family Ties meets Growing Pains with a touch of Full House opening credits theme.

Later in the episode, the twins find a puppy and try to convince their Mom to keep him. Vision enters the scene in his human form since he expects Agnes to pop up at any time, which she does. Wanda magically creates a collar right in front of Agnes, which Vision calls her on. Wanda doesn’t want to hide anymore. Vision flat out tells Wanda they are not of the same mind on this. Nice mind stone shoutout since that particular infinity stone is responsible for Wanda’s powers and Vision’s birth.

Billy and Tommy ask their parents if they can keep the puppy. Wanda and Vision say the boys won’t be able to properly care for a pet until they’re at least ten-years-old. The twins instantaneously age themselves up. Just the creepiest of scenes.

Vision heads to work at the same company he worked at in the pilot episode. The office has upgraded to Commodore 64’s and the dark ages of the internet. A message appears on the computer from S.W.O.R.D. and the entire staff reads the message in unison, not unlike a prayer. A freaked out Vision reverses Norm’s brainwashed mind. Norm’s response is terrifying as he’s wondering where his family is and asks Vision to stop her.

Back at Wanda’s house, the twins ask why their father isn’t home since it’s Saturday. Wanda tries to change it to Monday, but the boys don’t buy it. She explains that she and Vision aren’t on the same page but love each other. However, just as the scene is wrapping up, she hears a buzzing sound outside. Wanda heads outside where she sees a drone hovering above.

Where did the drone come from? Well let’s see what’s gong on outside of Westview.

On a Very Special Episode… Wanda Vs S.W.O.R.D.

After the 80s theme plays, Monica wakes up on a hospital bed due to her brought exit in the last episode. Her MRI is blank, but before undergoing additional tests, she heads to a Director Hayward’s briefing with Darcy and Jimmy. Parris has tremendous chemistry with Randall Park and Kat Dennings.

Jimmy provides an update on Wanda’s actions throughout the MCU. Hayward points out all of the occasions in which Wanda was a villain. He cuts off Jimmy every time he tries to add context. Monica defends Wanda. She doesn’t believe Wanda is a terrorist threat and everything Wanda’s doing is in response to her grief. Monica’s point of view is just awesome and Parris does such a great job in the scene of showing signs of her trauma while being able to understand that Wanda’s actions weren’t meant to be harmful. She also points out that if Wanda wanted to kill Monica she could have, instead she chose to protect her.

He also shares a deleted scene from Avengers: Endgame. After defeating Thanos, Wanda breaks into a S.W.O.R.D. facility that has Vision’s body. She takes Vision’s body, which is strapped to a bunch of wires.

Later, Monica, Jimmy and Darcy work together to figure out what is going on. Darcy calls the barrier around a Westview the Hex for its hexagonal shape and you know witchcraft. All conclude that Wanda could have taken out Thanos. They find out that Monica’s fish pants from the 3rd episode are made out of kevlar. Essentially, Wanda changed Monica’s bulletproof vest into the pants, which means Wanda changes any foreign objects to match the time period. Also, when an object leaves Westview, it doesn’t change back to the original form. Also, the drone that was changed to a helicopter in episode two is still a helicopter outside of the Westview

Monica figures out that they can send era-appropriate technology into Westview. Since they’re in the 80s, a drone can enter the town. The drone is dismantled by Wanda, which leads to this on a very special episode moment.

Conflict in and Outside of Westview

After dismantling the drone, the S.W.O.R.D. agents line up outside of the Westview barrier. Wanda breaks through the barrier and stands across from the heavily armed agents. Despite the numbers advantage, they look tiny opposite Wanda.

Wanda warns them to stay away. Monica tells Wanda that she much trust Monica on some level or she wouldn’t have let her into Westview. After some posturing, Wanda telepathically forces all of the agents to turn their guns on Director Hayward. Wanda warns the agents that this will be the only warning. The scene is eerily reminiscent of a scene in the first live-action X-Men film in which Magneto turned all of the police officers weapons on each other. She also uses her heavy Sakovian accent.

Wanda returns to Westview only to discover Ages carrying the dead puppy in her arms. Billy and Tommy ask Wanda to bring the pup back to life, but she says he can’t and offers a lesson on how you can’t control everything,

After burying the pup, Vision addresses Wanda’s mind control. Vision reveals that he undid Wanda’s control and that Norm was in pain. Wanda denies and attempts to end the conversation by going to the credits, but Vision isn’t having it. As the credits roll, he continues his anguished conversation. Continuing the scene with the end credits in the foreground is a masterful decision.

First, Vision says that he believes that the simulation was a manifestation of Wanda’s subconscious, but was only recently aware of her control. Then for the first time in the MCU, Vision raises his voice. In anger, Vision rises to the air and Wanda does the same. He tells Wanda to stop lying and demands to know what is outside of Westview. Wanda says he’s better off not knowing. Then Vision responds with a zinger, “You don’t get to make that choice for me Wanda.” Best scene of the series.

After Wanda points out that Vision has never spoken this way towards her, Vision claims he doesn’t remember anything before Westview and also asks Wanda why there aren’t any other children in the town. Wanda claims that she doesn’t know how Westview started. Vison counters that regardless, what she’s doing is wrong. The doorbell rings.

Wanda claims innocence. Then, Vision utters the best line of the series:

Wanda I want to [believe you], but at this point I’m ignoring statistics entirely

The person at the door is Evan Peters, who played Quicksilver in the X-Men films. The ending of the episode from the end credit of the tv show to the big cameo in the final scene is outstanding. I assume this is the same Pietro from the Fox X-Men films and that this is the first break in the multiverse.

Final Thoughts On A Very Special Episode…

Here’s my new sure to be wrong theory on WandaVision. I believe that Wanda’s not in full control and made a deal with Mephisto to protect Vision. I don’t think Monica has powers, yet. The fact that Monica and Wanda are both processing grief could be the reason that Wanda trusts Monica on some level.

My biggest theory is that we are going to find out that the some of the people who returned from the snap will kickstart the mutant gene in this universe. I also believe we will get a Magneto cameo before the series is over.

At this rate, WandaVision is on pace to be the best single season of a super hero tv show over season one of “The Flash.”