Good Bye to All That: WandaVision
The Pop Break
English - March 17, 2021 13:13 - 1 hour - 42 MB - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsTV & Film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week on Good Bye to All That, The Pop Break’s Podcasts Editor Alex Marcus is joined by Caleb Borchers, co-host of the Marvel News Desk podcast, to discuss Disney+’s WandaVision, which centers on Marvel Studios’ characters Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and The Vision (Paul Bettany) as the settle down in suburban NJ to start a family in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame.
Show Topics discussed include:
-What it is like covering Marvel content as a person enmeshed in Marvel scoops and rumors online?
-Did the internet hype train end up diminishing the experience of watching the series?
-Did the sitcom homages work for the series? Favorite and least favorite homages?
-Wanda and Visions love story, here and in previous MCU entries
-The problem with Tyler Hayward
-The incredible performances, especially of Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Teyonah Parris, and Kathryn Hahn
-COVID’s impact on the series
-The moralistic discourse around “punishing” Wanda and how that misses the point
-Hopes for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and any future Wanda-centric stories
You can follow host Alex Marcus on Twitter and Letterboxd and check out his film podcast Cinema Joes.