Good Bye to All That: WandaVision

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