We could never truly leave each other, even if we tried. You know that, right?
“So see, that explains everything. We’re not together anymore because of the multiverse.
Well, isn’t that comforting?” (insp)
Wanda and Vision saying goodbye goodnight to Billy and Tommy
WANDAVISION The Series Finale (2021) | dir. Matt Shakman
TVLine’s Performer of the Week: Elizabeth Olsen
Truthfully, Olsen has been worthy of Performer of the Week recognition for just about every week of WandaVision‘s run. As the Disney+ series gave us lessons in sitcom history, Olsen dazzled at every turn, keeping us as spellbound as the town of Westview with her charming comedic performance.
And though WandaVision seems to have left the sitcom framework behind for good, Olsen’s performance in Episode 8 was no less compelling, if tonally different, than her many weeks spent as a TV housewife.
During “Previously On,” Wanda was forced to revisit some of her life’s most traumatic and devastating moments, depicting for Agatha Harkness (a delightfully devious Kathryn Hahn) how life inside the Hex came to exist. With each flashback she encountered — her parents’ death, her time at Hydra, a bittersweet memory of Vision comforting her — Wanda looked more and more burdened by her own grief, as if it were a tangible weight hanging around her shoulders. And Olsen, with her weary eyes and quivering bottom lip, managed to portray how deep Wanda’s sadness ran without saying many words at all.
At the end of the episode, upon visiting the patch of New Jersey ground where Vision had planned to build a life with Wanda, her grief and fury quite literally boiled over, bursting out of Wanda in an explosion of red light that transported Westview back to the ’60s. But as effective as Olsen’s full-bodied sobs were in that moment, it was an earlier, quieter scene that left an even more indelible impression on us: Wanda’s heartbreaking visit to Vision’s corpse at S.W.O.R.D. headquarters. We’ve already seen how convincingly Olsen can communicate Wanda’s all-out rage — but here, as a gutted Wanda admitted, “I can’t feel you” to Vision’s lifeless face, the actress proved she can also shatter us with her voice barely above a whisper.
#me watching every single episode of WandaVision
So maybe I went a little too dark there, but they’ll be fine. Vision is made of vibranium. They literally inherited tough skin.
WandaVision 1x07, “Breaking the Fourth Wall”
It’s their first Halloween. You have to be there.
I mean...if I found Shangri-La, I wouldn’t wanna be reminded of the past either.