My biggest problem with Wandavision 

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Most of the comments are correctly pointing out that Wanda is not just simply sad and created the hex so I wanted to also state that she didn’t intentionally create it either, it was born from her overwhelming grief without her Consciously wanting this to happen, in fact she was confused as to how it even happened for a large part of the show

Ok the thing about Agatha calling her the “Scarlet Witch” was a big thing because that was the first time that she was ever called by her “superhero” name so just to clear that up

I think the commercials were clever. In case someone doesn’t know it was Ep. 1: ToastMate 2000. The beeping represents the bomb that killed Wanda’s parents. Ep. 2: Strücker. Strucker was the name of the guy who experimented on Wanda and Pietro. Ep. 3: Hydra Soak. I’ll let you figure that one out on your own. Ep. 5: Lagos. Lagos was the name of the town that Wanda accidentally killed Rumlow and a lot of people on a building in Civil War. They even say: “Lagos. For when you make a mess you didn’t mean to.” Ep. 6: Nexus, the anti-deppressant. I don’t know how to explain it but, she caused a nexus event and you’ll know what that is in Loki. Ep. 7: Yo-magic! Episode 8 starts with Agatha absorbing magic from different witches. So she snacked on yo magic. Oh dear, have I become Watch mojo? Nah, I can’t be that horrible.

Alex: hating on wanda vision The internet: we goin to war boys

Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen's acting range is AMAZING. And Kathryn Hahn, of course.

As someone who is a twin like Wanda, I too would probably snap mentally if I lost my mom, dad, twin, and boyfriend and then some guy says that I can't even give my boyfriend a funeral.

Alex: roasts the MCU and wandavision Marvel fans: imma bout to end this whole man's career

It feels like Alex is really unfairly judging the show this time. I didn’t even watch all the marvel movies and never read the comics, but I still get the references (Captain Marvels best friends daughter and I didnt even watch Captain Marvel), and I understand Wandas feelings. I don’t think Alex did his research or paid attention.

the show is literally all about her “sadness” it’s not supposed to be about sitcoms, the sitcoms reflect her escape from trauma as do the adverts idk how you didn’t get that

i wouldn’t say wanda is just sad, she’s lost everyone in her life. she lost her parents, her brother and then she had to kill vision *and* watch him die again after. i’m not even surprised she created a false reality where vision is alive😭

I strongly disagree with "All superhero movies are the same but just with diffrent characters" by that logic Black panter and Gaurdians of the galaxy are the same movie just with diffrent characters.

What he and a lot of ppl fail to realize is that this- and other marvel movies-are adaptations of the comics with a twist. Agatha calling Wanda the scarlet witch was the first time wanda’s comic book name appeared in the mcu and Monica becoming photon or spectrum is basically setting up her own show or movies or maybe captain marvel 2

Everyone saw the title of this video and said “I recognize that the council has made a decision but given that it’s a stupid ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it.”

You’ve kinda done what we all feared, mate. 1) Wanda isn’t just “sad”, she’s cosmically depressed. She lost her parents as a child, her brother and home, then the love of her life (twice, doing it herself the first time, and watching Thanos do it the next), and then finds out that not only can’t she bury him, but the house they planned on living in has been demolished. 2) Wanda has literally never been called Scarlet Witch before in the MCU. She’s always been Wanda or “Maximoff” in the movies, since Agatha is the first to know of her actual importance. 3) Monica was affected by Captain Marvel as a child, so not only was she able to handle crossing the border four times (twice in each direction), but once she fought it, she basically unlocked Creative Mode within the Hex, since she was suddenly seeing past everything. 4) The reason they didn’t hold the secret for longer was viewer retention. If they’d kept everything a secret for too long, they’d lose a lot of viewers because most people would just assume it wasn’t going to change and leave the show, with only diehard fans remaining. You can even see this in reaction videos to episode 4, where people talk about how they’ve become re-engaged with the show since it now has a secondary plot line and shows just how the whole thing is affecting real life

the commercials are referencing wandas past trauma, and slowly it gets more obvious so the 2000s one is talking about how she is depressed, and in the marvel comics is a nexus being, meaning she can change reality, like how the lagos ad references captain america civil war when she accidentally kills a bunch of people in lagos, and the toaster makes the same noise as the bomb that killed her parents. to fully enjoy the experience you do kind of need to be invested in the characters and the marvel universe.

Love alex but i HATE it when ppl say “all marvel movies are the same”. Spider man was abt a teenager who got powers and wanted a normal life when he was trying to be iron man, the iron man movies were abt him being captured by terrorists and making a suit that could save him, the black widow movie coming out is abt her being raised as a murderer. So they are actually VERY different from each other and those are just a few examples. If you think all of them end the same w the super hero defeating the bad guy, just watch infinity wars.

All Marvel fans after watching this: "You... are trespassing... and I want you... to... LEAVE."

"She is just sad" Parents died, Brother died from Ultron which she accidentally had a role in creating, She was viewed as a terrorist for a situation she couldn't have done much about in Lagos, She had to kill Vision and then watch him die again, And she had to watch Vision's body disassembled as Hayward talked him down like he was nothing more then wires and metal. She was more then just a little sad.

I'm a fan of WandaVision and in fact, Wanda is one of my favorite MCU characters but the fact that some fans justify Wanda kidnapping and enslaving a whole town because of her grief yet are the same people who were mad at Starlord for punching someone in the face in a blind rage with he found out his love interest was dead or made fun of Thor in endgame for gaining weight and becoming an alcoholic couch potato doesn't sit well with me, either grief justifies doing terrible/stupid things or it doesn't, you can't pick and choose.

My biggest gripe with this show was that Wanda somehow got away with all of this. I was 100% on caps and her side in civil war but this there's no way she doesn't get imprisoned after this. Intentional or not

Wanda wasn’t just sad. She had lost literally EVERYTHING. First her parents, then her brother, then she killed Vision and had to watch him die again. She was overcome with grief and hopelessness and I think that’s an important thing to take note of rather than claiming she did what she did simply because she was sad.

This show literally showcased the 5 stages of grief and to say she was just sad??? WHAT?!

Imagine someone being depressed and went through a lot of grief, only be met with "You're just sad," I mean, I wished that was the case. The would have been so much easier.

I like this dude but he clearly knew nothing about the show😂

"because she's a bit sad." my guy, did you not watch episode 8? how can you see the absolute AGONY she went through her entire life, and call her "sad"

Calling Wanda's motives stupid when loss and grief is literally the backbone of her entire character from her very first appearance in the MCU...

Wow. I really just. I feel like you didn't actually watch the show. This isn't her making the Hex because she was "sad". She had been through so much trauma in her life. She watched her parents die in front of her. She was trapped in a wartorn country and had been experimented on painfully. Her twin brother died. She watched the man she loved twice, once having killed him herself. She snapped. She completely and utterly lost control and when you have the ability to warp and change reality on a whim and never knew you had this kind of power, then yeah, this kind of thing is going to happen. Calling the events of this show just her being sad is just... wow.

This is why people who aren't interested in Superhero stuff shouldn't really review Superhero stuff. This isn't a show for casual fans to just jump into. Not every superhero show has to be some odd deconstruction of Superheroes. They can just be well written stories you can enjoy and not have the whole show hinge on "Oh wow what a twist." Yeah Monica got powers, and she's going on to other stuff in that universe

I respectfully disagree with the “almost”

“Although the town is in New Jersey so no one really cares” *everything’s legal in new jersey*

Saying she was just a little sad make it sounds like she's acting like a drama queen, but she's so far from being that. She lost so much, but at the still found the strength in herself to continue on. She's so incredibly strong, both mentally and physically, and that's why I love and respect her so much. Please get the context before giving your point of view.

So much more research should’ve been done for this video, his wilful ignorance just comes off as condescending and unfair. Especially when Alex completely reduces Wanda’s grief, trauma and pain into just “sad”. So disheartening.

I’d just like to clear this up, not hating or anything, but she didn’t create the world because she was “sad” literally everyone she has loved died, her parents, her brother, vision. And on top of that, since Tony died I’m guessing that the Avengers aren’t exactly giving off the same happy family vibes anymore. So in the long run, Wanda was all alone, and seeing the government disrespect Visions body, disassembling it and such, I think it was the last straw for her. Hope this helps for anyone being skeptical 🙂

Whoever came up with the 'What is grief, if not love perservering?' deserves all the awards.

I don’t think that Alex is minimizing trauma. Yes, his language is tongue-in-cheek, but it’s a valid criticism. The show attempts to paint Wanda as the victim - when what she’s doing is horrendous. It would have been very interesting to see the show really explore the morality of her actions - but, instead, it tries to gloss over the fact that she’s destroying the lives of everyone in the town. A similar character is Valkyrie. She has an extremely dark history, but, then, Thor Ragnarok just glosses over the fact that she’s literally enslaving people.

I get why Wanda snapped but...she kidnapped and enslaved a whole town and also subconsciously tortured them all, which i have to assume included the kids...with her horrific trauma dreams.

She was never called "Scarlet Witch" in the movies. It was always Wanda.

i am deeply offended by the “almost” in the title

It’s astounding how much you missed watching WandaVision. You’ve not picked up any of the subtext, the connections, the symbolism and the themes of grief, loss, trauma and guilt. Dude, do some research and then rewatch it.

For the people in the comments, just because Wanda's psyche is understandable does not make what she did justifiable. She took over and controlled people's lives just because SHE was grieving. And then she just left while they have to deal with the fact that they were, for lack of a better term, mind-raped. She's the villain in every one of those people's story.

agatha calling wanda “the scarlet witch” gave me goosebumps bc it’s never officially been mentioned in the past movies

Wanda and Visions romance is better than every Neftlix Romance movies EDIT : First time having 10K likes lets ready for episode 9

Why do I feel like Alex hates every existing shows and movies

Her altering reality to bring back her loved one isn't "dumb" since she literally lost EVERYTHING she has?? And i don't get how everyones trying to be quirky saying they wouldn't do what she did because "i wouldn't DARE to enslave a town 🥺" when she didn't even know she was giving them nightmares until agatha released them

i enjoy alex’s videos but he truly didn’t know what he was talking about. it wasn’t fair for him to form an opinion. Especially with him downplaying Wanda’s trauma and sadness. This woman has literally lost her family, her brother and now her only love. Vision literally died (TWICE) a few weeks ago for her.

To be absolutely fair, she did lose everything. I kinda get why she snapped.

Why people in this comment section are acting like Wanda it's the only one who has lost someone in the MCU.

It's interesting to see that Alex Meyers enjoyed the sitcom side of Wandavison, I know a lot of people who would say the opposite. That's the difficult task Wandavision had, the show needed to juggle the new ideas with the old characteristics of Marvel. Overall I think Wandavision did a very good job and gave the audience the "best of both worlds" while sharing an in-depth psychological depiction of grief and its many stages.

I would also like to add to the “Wanda isn’t just sad” comments that not only did the live of her life die, when she went to go give him a funeral, she was forced to watch them tear apart his body

Each advertisement is related to a trauma in wandas life and if you listen for it its really obvious

Yall stop attacking him for saying she was “just sad” he understands it was more than that but he just said it for comedic effect it made it funny literally guys please stop being so literal it takes the fun out of things

“They’ll never know what you sacrificed for them” might be the most asinine line in all of television history

Wanda isn't just 'sad', she's utterly alone, abandoned, and has lost everyone she loves.

Everyone: *sees the title* Everyone: *Furiously ranting in the comments*

LMAOOOOO- THE WANDA STANS IN THE COMMENTS ARE SENDING ME ¨Wanda isn't sad, she is just blah blah blah¨ IM SURE HE KNOWS THIS

Episode eight literally made me cry.

I think it’s funny how he says he is bored of watching the same movie every year with different characters but that’s just what he does anyway by watching so many Netflix teen romances

im sorry but u missed like half the show saying that she only brought him back to hang out. Its her not being able to handle her grief and depression edit : hold on I went to sleep? whats happening?

Crazy how everyone literally missed the point of the show...even tho you go thru all that you don't get to justify taking the life's of an entire town. Do you think anyone she lost would have wanted her to become that? She's toxic. A better person over comes the losses and rises to the top as the best, not the best at being the worst. For example, batman lost his parents in front of him, he could have became the joker, the villian, but he became the batman, the good guy.

So this show takes place after Endgame, after the Blip (when people were dust for 5 years). So not only did Wanda have to kill Vision, watch him come back to be murdered, herself come back 5 yrs later to the world even more crazy then before, not to mention there’s the question of the Mind Stone messed with her head a little when she got her powers, shake all that together & it can explain some of her actions more

Monica: He was killed by Ultron, wasn’t he? Wanda: Hippity hoopity get off my property

Wanda's not sad. She's depressed and is having to process ALOT in a very short time. She's had to deal with her brother dying, being blamed for the Lagos incident, and her lover being killed not once but TWICE and the first time by her own hand. She thought she was at least making Vision's death meaningful by denying Thanos the Mind Stone but that sacrifice was rendered pointless by the fact he just rewound time so he could get the stone. She's having to deal with the trauma of having to witness his death multiple times and the fact she has effectively lost everything. No home, no family, nothing and she like any person when dealing with extreme trauma and feelings often retreat to a safe space and for her it was watching old sitcoms where yeah there's a problem but it's usually wrapped up in a funny manner with hijinks abound.

This is such a great show and the way it Explores the topic of grief in this sitcom/action movie context is everything! 🥰 I’m sorry you didn’t grasp that! The commercials literally make EVERYTHING better! The symbolism in each of them is rich!

I’m just so glad that everyone here is defending WandaVision.

you literally focused on the least important aspects of the show and downplayed all the big things that happened WTH😭

Wanda loses: Her parents Her brother Her friends Her boyfriend Her kids Her country Her life And she's just "sad" 💀

This comment section is the closest thing we'll get to twitter.

Wandavision was incredible. One of my favorite shows ever. Each episode was like a puzzle piece and it was fun trying to figure out the puzzle. One of the most enjoyable TV shows I've ever watched. Most of that is because I watched weekly so had a full week to think about each episode and what the future would be on the show. As a binge it would not have been half as good but with that particular TV show weekly viewing was very good.

This really just came across as "I don't understand this show" lol

Adding to the comments. She was also “blipped” so everything from years ago is fresh to her while everyone else has moved on. Imagine having to more by yourself something that your friends experienced five years ago.

There’s a lot of flak that Alex is taking for doing this review, but personally, I think he has a point. People like Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Ted Bundy all had rough backgrounds, which will never justify what she did. No matter what happened to Wanda in the past, that does not justify what she did on this show.

Me a Marvel fan as you insult my favorite universe: “dOn’t talk to me about that, I don’t want to hear about it! (This is a joke, constructive criticism is helpful)

A lot of people judged wanda for creating this whole new reality, but after watching episode 8, it’s hard not to feel her pain

Not you trying to downplay depression and grief to it just being “sad” lmao

I LOVED WandaVision until episode 4. It felt so mysterious and interesting, and then they just destroy the mystery and reveal everything. That killed my enjoyment immediately

To those saying that Alex's critique of the premise of the show (4:49) is unfair, understand that: a) What is justifiable and rational in real life does not always translate into a captivating premise. Who cares if Wanda lost her brother, her mother, her whoever (in other films and series, mind you), the critique made was that the show falls conceptually thin in that regard. There's simply not a lot of depth to Wanda's psychology for her actions beyond her being sad (which is to be expected from Marvel, who often tend to feign three-dimensional characters), which would have in turn made the world much more interesting. b) Depression does not justify doing terrible things. I dread that this is the society we live in, that we sympathise with people based on what some therapist wrote on a document. Wanda's psychology should have actually been explored instead of saying she's sad and letting her get away with it. And even then, it wouldn't be fair to use that as a justification - it should have just been an explanation. Don't worry Alex, there are people who actually respect you and understand your thoughts

I think the reason you have a slight issue with this is the fact that you are pushing it off as "another superhero show" as soon as the sitcom ends, but it still isn't. This show is about Wanda's grief and trauma, and it has been since the start (from small callbacks to her past to the commercials outright spelling her trauma)

Ok but ‘Agatha all along’ SLAPS as a song. You cannot deny that. It is now fact /hj

I don’t get why people are coming after this guy, he’s like this with every movie and show he watches. What’s any different with this video?

“My husband and his indestructible head” is kinda funny because the exact way that he died was Thanos pulling the mind stone from his head, thus destroying vision’s head.

Alex was kind of frustrating in the video, not because he was criticizing the show (as he usually does) but because it came off as a bit ignorant considering all the points he made were misinformed.. but it's fine, he isn't a huge super hero fan, that's fine.

No offense, but CMBR is television static. So, that’s also a TV reference.

...at least 3/4 of the comments are just "Wanda wasn't just sad..."

Are people really still trying to defend her enslaving an entire town because she lost loved ones? That's literally a villain origin story, but everyone is out here acting like she is still a hero after traumatizing so many people (including CHILDREN). She can still redeem herself yes, but only given time.

I would like to add to what most have already said. She’s more than sad, she’s more than depressed. Wanda is suffering from severe trauma and extreme grief. She feels lost and alone. She feels like she has no one. Her parents are dead, her twin was killed in front of her, she watched the one person she had after that die, twice, and once of those times it was by her own hands. She feels like she has nothing. She’s lost all of it. She didn’t even make the Hex on purpose, this is the way her mind decided to cope. This is what her brain thought would be best. She’s alone, she’s broken, she’s hurt, she’s scarred, and she’s scared.

I disagree with thinking that her motive is stupid, and it is wrong to take a town hostage but her parents were killed when she was a kid her brother died vision was all she had and she had to kill him to save the universe but he just ended up being killed in front of her anyways and she also didn't even mean for any of it to happen she wasn't just sad she is depressed

idk why people keep saying "oh she was just sad, everyone loses people and they dont take over a town" well everyone else also doesnt have crazy reality altering chaos magic that responds to intense emotion, and can do things she previously had no idea about... cant really compare her situation to that of a regular, non superpowered individual lol

I know this video is somewhat “old” but I just want to put my 2 cents in. I usually like Alex’s videos but this was not it. Wanda wasn’t just “sad”. She lost her parents, her brother, the love of her life, and her home. She relied on happiness through those classic TV shows she watched when she was a kid. So, in order for her to feel happy again, she accidentally created a false reality, out of distress, based on those TV shows, where she could be happy along with her family.

Wanda being called the Scarlet Witch is a big deal because she has not been called that at all in the MCU.

“She’s sad” Well when she was 10 her parents’ house was bombed with her and her twin brother in it, they survive and are trapped under a building staring at another one of the bombs that killed her parents for TWO ENTIRE DAYS. Then years later her twin brother, the only family she has left, is killed by an evil robot that she helped. And after all that she can somehow stay composed and cultivate a new relationship with vision and falls in love with him. But she has to then kill Vision, the love of her life, by blowing up his heart/brain, then thanos rewinds time and rips out his heart/brain right in front of her. Oh and years later when she is revived from literally being turned to ash she finds out that some of her closest friends, Black widow, iron man, and captain america (cap is most likely gonna die in like a couple of years) are dead. So yeah a little more than sad.

When someone says all superhero movies are the same and puts up a picture of the Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man homecoming. 😧😡

I think audiences forget that creators have complete control over these characters, because THEY AREN'T REAL. People are essentially merged with their media now to the point that everything has to be "real" or "realistic" so they can insert themselves into the narrative. In truth, Wandavision was just "fine". I found it to be novel, and entertaining upon first viewing, but wholly forgettable. Point of fact, I kinda forgot it existed until I saw this video. It wasn't a "masterpiece", nor was it schlocky trash. It was totally and utterly fine.

Alex. The main point of the show now is to create new characters for the “new” Avengers movies. Like, Monica is actually a superhero in the comics. So they’re “bringing her in” to the MCU. Same as wandas kids. They’re SUPERHEROS TOO

You clearly didn't understand what this show is telling about Wanda. She was always a side character and her relationship with vision was mostly off screen in the movies. She isn't just sad she is very depressed and lonely. What would happen if a witch with reality warping powers had to deal with so much trauma? And I don't know what you were expecting from a superhero show ? This is by far one of the best in the MCU!

I simply think that people who generally don’t like Superhero movies as a genre can’t really appreciate these characters and their thoughts, emotions and actions. These people seem to trivialise the movies and the characters entirely and although they say it could be done better/differently, I doubt that they could be satisfied with it in any way simply because they don’t enjoy the genre. They are entitled to their own opinion but I feel that Wandavision (though not perfect) really explored Wanda in depth and it’s fascinating because we’ve watched this character on the screen since AOU but as an audience, very little was revealed about her before now. She was a mysterious character, but now we saw that she’s a very layered character who fights a lot of internal demons and grief and actually vision helped her in a way of handling the grief from her brothers death, but now he is gone as well and she couldn’t fight the grief alone again. It also brings in her will, she feels the conflicts of losing everything and was fighting herself to not bring vision back but eventually the grief consumed her. A person, given godly powers, would probably do the same, and so it’s so easy to sympathise with her but we also antagonise her for taking a whole town hostage and stripping away their free will.

“laugh tracks” boi it was a real audience

so we just all agree that wanda isn’t just sad ? great 😊

Had to pause the vid when he said Wanda is just a sad person. I understand if he didn't watch the movies directly connected to this, but episode 8 is an episode entirely dedicated to explain what events led to her creation of the Hex and it was a very straightforward episode depicting the grief and trauma she experienced all throughout her life. Simplifying all of that as just her being sad just doesn't sit right with me. Edit: Why'd he change the title of the vid?

Wanda became an orphan at the age of 10 believing she’ll be blown to bits by the same people who killed her parents. Then her twin brother was killed, and then she had to kill her boyfriend to save the universe, _then_ watch him die in front of her, twice, now three times. She’s not just “sad”.