This week on Good Bye to All That, The Pop Break’s Podcasts Editor Alex Marcus is joined by Caleb Borchers, co-host of theMarvel News Deskpodcast, 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.
