Good Bye to All That: WandaVision

Published: March 17, 2021, 1:13 p.m.

This week on Good Bye to All That, The Pop Break\u2019s Podcasts Editor Alex Marcus is joined by Caleb Borchers, co-host of the Marvel News Desk podcast, to discuss Disney+\u2019s WandaVision, which centers on Marvel Studios\u2019 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.

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Show Topics discussed include:

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-What it is like covering Marvel content as a person enmeshed in Marvel scoops and rumors online?

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-Did the internet hype train end up diminishing the experience of watching the series?

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-Did the sitcom homages work for the series? Favorite and least favorite homages?

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-Wanda and Visions love story, here and in previous MCU entries

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-The problem with Tyler Hayward

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-The incredible performances, especially of Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Teyonah Parris, and Kathryn Hahn

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-COVID\u2019s impact on the series

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-The moralistic discourse around \u201cpunishing\u201d Wanda and how that misses the point

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-Hopes for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and any future Wanda-centric stories

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You can follow host Alex Marcus on Twitter and Letterboxd and check out his film podcast Cinema Joes.