‘WandaVision’, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ and Why Simulated Realities Are All the Rage
Posted on Thursday, February 11th, 2021 by Kalyn Corrigan
This post contains spoilers for recent episodes of WandaVision.
Toward the end of the third episode of WandaVision, Marvel’s incendiary new television series, something strange happens.
Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) gives birth to two beautiful yet rapidly growing baby boys, and she and her neighbor Geraldine (Teyonah Parris) lean over the crib and coo and quail and admire the newborn twins. “I’m a twin,” Wanda smiles. “I had a brother. His name was…Pietro.” As Wanda starts to sing an old Romani lullaby, Geraldine attempts to break the ‘60s sitcom spell cast over Wanda’s suburban sanctimonious society. “He was killed by Ultron, wasn’t he?” Caught off guard, a single tear strokes Wanda’s cheek. “What did you say?” The Scarlet Witch blinks away her sorrow. Geraldine tires to play off her statement as casual conversation, but the damage is done, her cover blown. Bell-bottoms zigzag across the sunken living room carpet as she offers to take a shift rocking the babies, but Wanda’s grown privy to the S.W.O.R.D. agent in the room. She looks at the outsider with eyes of fire. Her brows furrow. She asks Geraldine to leave.
