WandaVision episode 6 recap: Nightmare on Vision's street

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WandaVision episode 6 delivers plenty of tricks, and a few treats, in the course of Easter eggs. Just more than that, this installment highlights how unsafe Wanda's grief-induced sitcom surreality has become. It may be a bright and happy dream for Wanda, simply for everyone in Westview, it'southward a living nightmare.

Here's our requisite spoiler warning: We're analyzing everything that happened on WandaVision episode 6, so beware!

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Titled "All-New Halloween Spooktacular!," WandaVision episode 6 takes its tone and visual cues from Malcolm in the Center, which means the sitcom skips from the '80s to the 2000s. That makes sense, since the big comedies of the '90s focused more on single adults, like Friends and Seinfeld.

Then again, "cool" Uncle Pietro feels like a riff on Uncle Jesse from the extremely '90s Full House (the prove that turned Elizabeth Olsen'south sisters into stars), so there is a fleck of blurring between the decades.

WandaVision episode 6 recap: Trick or treat

The episode opens on Halloween, with twins Tommy and Billy speaking directly to the photographic camera à la Malcolm in the Center. Their parents come up downstairs in their costumes, which reference their Cherry Witch and Vision looks from the comic books (Wanda claims she's dressed as a Sokovian fortune teller). Meanwhile, Uncle Pietro wakes up from snoring on the couch to rile up the kids, tease his sis and by and large act like a man-child.

Wanda's excited for the twins' outset Halloween, merely Vision upends her plans when he announces that he's patrolling for the neighborhood watch. "That'south not what you were supposed-" she starts to say.

"What?" Vision replies, and it'south clear that he hasn't forgotten their standoff in episode five. This patrol duty is totally a front for something. Paul Bettany's micro facial expressions are truly excellent.

Pietro steps upwards to take Vision'due south place as a father figure, and uses his super-speed to outfit himself and Tommy in costumes resembling Quicksilver from the comics. When they hit the streets, Westview is suddenly overrun with children. Where did they all come from? Pietro and the twins cause a bit of all-in-good-fun problem, such every bit stealing candy, corking jack o' lanterns and spraying silly cord on everyone.

Wanda is still uncertain nigh her brother with a new face, and they even rib each other about their disappeared accents. So, what'south Pietro'due south deal? "I'one thousand just trying to practice my part, OK?" Pietro tells her. "Come to town unexpectedly, create tension with the brother-in-law, stir up trouble with the rug rats, and ultimately requite you grief. I hateful, that's what you wanted, isn't it?"

And isn't Westview a place where Wanda gets what she wants?

WandaVision episode 6: Vision'due south quest

After he leaves the house, Vision begins roaming the edges of Westview, where he notices something very odd. Creepy, actually. The people who are farther away from Wanda move in slow-move, or are outright frozen. One woman is repeatedly trying to hang a Halloween ornament while a tear drips down her face up.

Vision finds Agnes in a car sitting idly at an intersection and mumbling that she got lost on the way to the Town Square Scare political party. He zaps her head, just like he did to Norm. Now awake, Agnes knows exactly who he is — an Avenger! He can save her!

But Vision is dislocated. "What's an Avenger?" Oh boy.

Then, Agnes wonders if she's dead ... because Vision is expressionless. Oh boys.

Vision wants to notice help outside Westview. "How?" Agnes asks. "No ane leaves. Wanda won't even let us call back about it."

She starts cackling uncontrollably, forcing Vision to put her back into sitcom sleep.

Despite what Agnes said, Vision is determined to become. He approaches the boundary, with Director Tyler Hayward and S.West.O.R.D. agents watching from the other side.

But as he emerges from the Hex, Vision begins disintegrating. Later on all, in the outside world, he'southward dead. And for a moment, information technology looks similar he may die over again.

WandaVision episode 6: Hex marks the spot

Dorsum at the Boondocks Square Scare, a worried Baton runs upwardly to Wanda. His telepathic powers are starting to come up online, and he tin can hear that his father is in trouble.

"Don't sweat it, sis," Pietro jokes to his sister. "It'south non like your dead husband can die twice."

Furious, Wanda blasts him away, then asks Baton to tap into his powers and discover Vision. He reports seeing soldiers, which Wanda knows means he'due south near the South.W.O.R.D. tents.

She puts Westview into "pause" and calls up her ain powers to extend the Hex chimera. The boundary begins to move and swallow up everyone who can't abscond, which includes some S.W.O.R.D. agents every bit well every bit Dr. Darcy Lewis.

Vision is safe. The tents plough into a funfair. And Darcy sighs, "Oh, fudge."

WandaVision episode 6: Growing pains

Let's backtrack to talk near why Darcy was eaten by the Hex, just not Monica Rambeau or Jimmy Woo.

Director Hayward ejects the trio from the camp when Monica challenges him on sending in the missile drone. She thinks they can still get through to Wanda, while he considers Wanda a threat to defuse.

Of grade, she doesn't take their dismissal seriously, so Monica, Jimmy and Darcy sneak into a tent to regroup and access files (evidently, Darcy is a hacker on height of beingness a physicist). Monica contacts an unknown person, "her fashion dorsum into the Hex."

Just Darcy warns her confronting it. Going into and out of the Hex changed Monica's cells, and entering again could alter her even more than. Maybe the tertiary time's the charm, and this is how Monica gets superpowers!

While Monica and Jimmy head out to meet with her contact, Darcy stays behind to hack Hayward's terminal firewall for a file chosen Cataract. She manages to send it to Jimmy earlier she sees what'southward going on with Vision at the boundary. But when Darcy tries to plead with Hayward to assistance him, she's handcuffed to a auto for her efforts. When Wanda expands the Hex, a helpless Darcy is sucked in.

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Possibly WandaVision will give a chip of a wink to the audience and transform Darcy into a diner waitress, only like the ane Kat Dennings portrayed in 2 Broke Girls. We are heading into the 2010s, after all!

The episode ends with Hayward fleeing the expanding Hex, trying to radio other survivors. Meanwhile, Monica and Jimmy are driving abroad in their own car, en road to see up with her mysterious contact.

Who could it exist? Maybe Captain Marvel will fly dorsum to salve the day. She's been namechecked twice on the show now. Then again, information technology may be someone with a stronger connectedness to Wanda. At this point, the unabridged MCU is wide open.

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