WANDAVISION
Disney+, 3:00 a.m. ET
Disney+ provided critics only the first three episodes of WandaVision in advance – and while they were intriguing and imaginative, they also were very much like place-setters. The sitcom format of those opening episodes was fine, taking us through TV “worlds” of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, but I wondered when writing my review where WandaVision intended to go from there. It could, I imagined, be the first TV series I can recall to shift in midstream from sitcom to drama. Little did I know that in this series, which stars Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Marvel movie characters Wanda and Vision, the shift would take place in the very next episode – but Episode 4, which began streaming this morning and I got up early to see, does exactly that, by taking an outsider perspective on the suburban neighborhood presented in WandaVision. Get ready for a familiar face or two from the wider Marvel universe – but also get ready for another shift next week, because who knows what’s coming next? Not I. Or me. We’re both deliriously in the dark…