‘WandaVision’: Episode Breakdown
Key elements based on the first two episodes, trailers and promotional spots released so far… Some spoilers.
(Updated: 0/17)
Main Cast: Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Vision (Paul Bettany) and Agnes (Kathryn Hahn)
Outsiders/Members of SWORD: Beekeeper (Zac Henry), Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings), Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris)
Westview Townsfolk: Arthur Hart (Fred Melamed), Beverly (Jolene Purdy), Dennis (Amos Glick), Dottie Jones (Emma Caulfield Ford), Herb (David Payton), Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp), Norm (Asif Ali) and Phil Jones (David Lengel)
My Synopsis: Episodes 1 through 6 show life inside Wanda’s projected TV universe, which is a Truman Show-like bubble over a New Jersey town, with brief teasers of the outside world. Meanwhile, episodes 7 through 9 will assume a more typical Avengers movie narrative—this according to Bettany—as it reveals how members of SWORD have attempted to infiltrate Wanda’s world in order to bring her back to reality.
Confirmed:
Episode 1
Era/Main Inspiration: 1950s, Dick Van Dyke Show
Wanda and Vision’s Relationship/Family Status: The pair starts off as newlyweds who just moved into town. They end by establishing roots and details about their wedding.
Appearance by Agnes: Yes
Appearances by Westview Townsfolk: Arthur Hart, Dennis, Mrs. Hart, Norm, Phil Jones
Appearances by Outsiders/Members of SWORD: Darcy? (Unconfirmed hand at end of episode)
Commercial: ToastMate 2000 toaster oven by Stark Industries
Wanda’s Attempt to Protect Her Universe: She inadvertently starts choking Mr. Hart after he ask too many questions during dinner. She eventually asks Vision to save him.
Episode 2
Era/Main Inspiration: 1960s, Bewitched
Wanda and Vision’s Relationship/Family Status: They’re happily married with newly combined beds in the beginning. The episode ends with Wanda being pregnant.
Appearance by Agnes: Yes
Appearances by Westview Townsfolk: Beverly, Dennis, Dottie Jones, Herb, Mrs. Hart, Norm, Phil Jones
Appearances by Outsiders/Members of SWORD: Beekeeper, Helicopter №57, Monica Rambeau, Radio Message from Jimmy Woo
Commercial: Hydra watches by Strücker
Wanda’s Attempt to Protect Her Universe: She rewinds time after she and Vision see the beekeeper emerge from the street sewer.
Unconfirmed:
Episode 3
Era/Main Inspiration: 1970s, The Brady Bunch?
Wanda and Vision’s Relationship/Family Status: It begins with Wanda still pregnant and ends with the pair becoming parents of newborn twins?
Appearance by Agnes: Yes
Appearances by Westview Townsfolk: Herb (source)
Appearances by Outsiders/Members of SWORD: Monica Rambeau
Commercial: TK
Wanda’s Attempt to Protect Her Universe: She blasts Monica out of Westview after Monica visits her home?
Episode 4
Era/Main Inspiration: 1980s, Family Ties with a meta Full House moment (source)
Wanda and Vision’s Relationship/Family Status: They start off as parents of toddlers?
Appearance by Agnes: Yes
Appearances by Westview Townsfolk: TK
Appearances by Outsiders/Members of SWORD: TK
Commercial: TK
Wanda’s Attempt to Protect Her Universe: TK
Episode 5
Era/Main Inspiration: 1990s, Roseanne?
Wanda and Vision’s Relationship/Family Status: They are parents of preteens and a dog named Sparky?
Appearance by Agnes: Yes
Appearances by Westview Townsfolk: TK
Appearances by Outsiders/Members of SWORD: TK
Commercial: TK
Wanda’s Attempt to Protect Her Universe: Something requires them to both take action?
Episode 6
Era/Main Inspiration: 2000s, Modern Family
Wanda and Vision’s Relationship/Family Status: Exhausted parents of teenagers?
Appearance by Agnes: TK
Appearances by Westview Townsfolk: TK
Appearances by Outsiders/Members of SWORD: TK
Commercial: TK
Wanda’s Attempt to Protect Her Universe: An event on Halloween night? Something happens to the kids? She tries to prevent her universe from resetting back to the 1950s?
Episode 7–9
Era/Main Inspiration: Post Avengers: Endgame, N/A
Wanda and Vision’s Relationship/Family Status: Wanda is alive and Vision is dead.
Appearance by Agnes: TK
Appearances by Westview Townsfolk: Beverly, Norm, Phil Jones (source)
Appearances by Outsiders/Members of SWORD: Beekeeper, Darcy Lewis, Jimmy Woo, Monica Rambeau (source)
Commercial: N/A
Wanda’s Attempt to Protect Her Universe: Wanda is forced to protect her universe from outsiders as it continues to expand/become more disruptive? (source)
