The Marvel Cinematic Universe takes over television with ‘WandaVision’

Posted on March 19, 2021

By MARK VIOLA

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has left its first footprint on television with the complete run of “WandaVision” now available on Disney+, and this week we get the premier of the MCU’s second series, “Falcon and Winter Soldier.”

I haven’t forgotten “Agents of SHIELD” or the Netflix shows like “Daredevil,” but those shows were never fully integrated into the MCU. The films could and did sometimes impact their stories, but nothing that happened in any of those were ever allowed to impact the movies in return. With “WandaVision” and all of the Disney+ shows planned in the future, their stories will have equal weight in crafting what happens in the MCU moving forward.

In case you’re an MCU fan and haven’t given “WandaVision” a chance, let me say that the series is a great piece of storytelling that spans nine episodes, each of which run between 30 and 45 or so minutes. Not only does the series live up to the standard set by the MCU films, it shows that executive produce Kevin Feige and his cadre of visual storytellers are still on the top of their game, even after 23 films.

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