Yes. Everything Is Rubbish.

I feel like talking about WandaVision, so let's do this. When Marvel announced they would be adding shows to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I got excited. Especially with what we've seen of the Marvel shows on Netflix. But when they announced that one of them would be about Wanda and Vision called...WandaVision, my eyes rolled. Wanda and Vision were two characters in the MCU that I did not give a single damn about. They were both powerful. Whatever. But Wanda's accent and her emo girl act got on my nerves in the films. And neither Civil War nor Infinity War did a great job of making me care about the relationship the two of them had. They felt like side characters that the writers couldn't be bothered to do anything with. Kinda like Hawkeye. So I guess it makes sense that Marvel would give them their own show to test the Disney+ waters, especially given that Wanda was still alive post Infinity War and Endgame. And the same goes for Hawkeye, who is also getting a Disney...

Episode 6 ended on a big ol' cliffhanger that left us saying 'WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK' when that Please Stand By screen hit. Then episode 7 came along and said 'OH. You mad about that one!?' and dropped the Please Stand By on an even bigger cliffhanger which answered a bunch of questions, whilst (in true WandaVision fashion) leaving us with a whole bunch more. It was Agatha all along. [Does the Jive]

So, episode 3 of WandaWision hit and we're now in the 70s doing The Brady Bunch, but without the bunch. Although by the end of the episode, there is a bunch. I guess. I'm not going to run through EVERY single thing that happened in this episode in detail, because in all honesty, not much did happen. But in short, Wanda gives birth to twins, Vision starts to realise that maybe something's wrong in this world they're living in, the neighbours are concerned, Geraldine's cover slips, and we see that Wanda is most definitely in partial control of things in WandaVision. Okay, so maybe a lot did happen. But it took a fucking long time for it to do so. Whilst WandaVision's attention to detail in recreating landmark US TV sitcoms is without question, its pacing is an issue. Everybody dragged the first 2 episodes of WandaVision for this same reason, but I actually liked them. Maybe I was so thrilled to have something new from the MCU, or I was buzzing from having watched ...

I'mma say this right now. I know some folk are gonna be PISSED at this episode, because they feel that not enough happened. WandaVision slowed things right the way down for episode 8, which may seem strange for the penultimate episode given what we know is gonna go down in the finale. But not a second was wasted. Y'all may think this episode gave nothing, but it actually gave a lot, and set an interesting course for some of these characters and the MCU for phase four.

WandaVision did it again y'all. Answered maybe one or two of our questions from last week, whilst throwing about a dozen more in our faces before peacing out after 30 minutes. Yep. We're still getting these 30 minute episodes. But I have to hand it to the WandaVision team, because they haven't wasted a single second with these past 3 episodes. And they always leave you thinking of ways you can just put yourself into a coma for a week until the next episode drops. 'Because honestly. What is even life in this hellfire of a year these days without WandaVision?' Says I. Oh. Did I just make a hell reference?!

Well, it's over . The finale episode of WandaVision, simply titled The Series Finale . The WandaVision finale was pretty much the showdown we knew we were gonna get following the end of episode 8 ; a witch off between Agatha and Wanda, and a Vision 2.0 vs. Wii White Vision showdown, with some questions being answered along the way. But episode 9 was less about tying up loose ends and more about closing a chapter, both figuratively and in Wanda's case quite literally. WandaVision had pretty much given most of the answers it had to give by episode 8. We knew who Agatha was. We knew Wanda was born a witch. We knew that man was not Quicksilver. We knew why sitcoms. We knew that Wanda created the whole damn thing. We knew Vision and those kids couldn't exist outside of the Hex. We knew Hayward was a bad guy. So the only real mystery left was how it'd all end.

Watching WandaVision is all I be living for these days. C'MON DEPRESSION. You bedda work bitch. WandaVision had a bit of an iffy start when it put out a first episode which gave us close to nothing on its own, then a second episode which gave a bit more, but still not much to chew on other than how amazing the production values were. But now 5 episodes in, WandaVision is in its stride. For the past 3 weeks each episode has managed to have me come away feeling as though nothing has happened, a lot happened, that I'm no closer to figuring out a damn thing, and that I have everything sussed, to wiping my entire whiteboard. All at fucking once. I'm living.

Depending on who you ask, WandaVision was off to a rocky start, with a duo of episodes which didn't give away much . Then a third episode which gave away a little more , but still not enough for a show that's three episodes into a mystery that it wants you to be invested in and care about. But regardless of how you felt about episodes 1 to 3, THIS episode right here is the one we were all waiting for. The one that will push those who were on the fence into seeing the entire show through. Although, let's face it. You were always gonna watch this shit. 'Cos I know you want that money's worth out of your Disney+ account and that you ain't been watched shit on the service since The Mandalorian's second season finale aired. After 3 episodes set in a sitcom, we finally get an episode filling us in on what exactly has been happening in the world outside of WandaVision. Surprisingly starting from the day the blip got reversed at the end of Endgame , and bringing us ...

When I first saw the trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in theatres having watched Spider-Man: No Way Home, I was excited. But when I started reading reviews of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, I dropped my expectations significantly. But what also tempered my expectations was how much I was not enjoying Moon Knight on Disney+. And also remembering that Phase 4 of the MCU has been as patchy as the edges of  Cynthia from Rugrats . Marvel Studios has a real problem with its fourth phase of the MCU. Most of its shows and films thus far has been a case of a great story buried in typical Marvel Studios-isms, smothered with lots of things to make the film as generic and wide-appealing as possible. Whilst simultaneously being so tied to a decade worth of movies, that you can’t even fully enjoy the damn thing if you’ve not watched at least five of the films that had released prior. Phase 4 has given us a taste of Marvel taking some pretty big swings, but Wa...

I have to hand it to this show. Because based on shit I’d read online (with set photos and everything) and YouTube videos speculating, I already knew that this Variant was going to be deemed a variant of Loki and that it’d turn out to be a woman. And yet, the whole build up to that moment was still immensely satisfying, because everything about this show up until this point has been so fucking good. And the biggest focus of this episode for me wasn’t who exactly the variant is and why they’re doing what they’re doing - it was seeing more of Loki and Mobius together. And their interactions together were easily the highlights of this episode, where we got apocalypses, jokes and an opening fight scene to Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out For a Hero”.

I said I wasn’t gonna do any type of recap or anything on Marvel Studios' Disney+ show Loki, but here I fucking am. Because this show is really good so far, I have shit to say about it; and because I no longer have a Twitter account to blurt my thoughts out, they’re all just pent up. So here we go. You are welcome for this thing that nobody asked for. But this won’t be a recap. Because what is the point in a recap for you , the person who ended up here because you’ve already watched the damn episode?! The first thing I’ll say is this. I like that Loki doesn’t look nor feel like either WandaVision or The Falcon and The Winter Soldier . A big issue for me when it came to the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies was that directors weren’t always able to put their own stamps on films, resulting in many of them looking the same. So it’s been nice to see that this hasn’t carried over to the shows. Allowing directors to put their own visual flairs and cinematographic style into their work se...

So after an episode that everybody unanimously dragged for being filler, episode 4 gave us a WHOLE lotta shit. It was like the writers knew folk were gonna be pissed that episode 3 didn’t do enough (I disagree) and then had to throw in the kitchen sink for the next episode. But we also have to remember that this show has to move pretty licketty-split because it’s only 6 episodes long. But this also keeps in tone with the urgency of the setup of the show, of fixing time, quickly. Pruning folk, quickly. And catching variants, quickly.

Well. I guess it’s over. Well, season 1 at least, because after rumblings that there would be a second season of Loki, we got confirmation in place of a mid credit scene in the finale. And what a finale it was. Loki has continued to completely throw me from episode to episode. Every time I go in expecting a zig-a-zig-ah, the bitch fucking ZAGS. And that’s exactly what the finale did. I can imagine that the Loki finale will wind up being as divisive as episode 3, because of the pace of it and the feeling that not enough happened.