All Rights Reserved.)Īnd while Vision is contained on the sound stage “exteriors,” Wanda is left to deal with early contractions and the unexpected arrival of Geraldine ( Teyonah Parris). Geraldine’s Otherness Begins to Unnerve Wanda It’s just too bad Vision loses his train of thought before he could sense that meaning.
Which means WandaVision’s choice to be so set-bound this week means something.
Production often went outside to shoot exterior scenes at the kids’ schools (an administration building on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles), neighborhood streets, and family vacations. For careful watchers, the change of production technique should offer a sense of foreboding well before Vision notices Herb cutting through the cement wall with a edge trimmer.īut to come back to The Brady Bunch for a moment, the set-bound feel was not absolute. Here, Vision’s talk with Herb (David Payton) and, later, with Agnes ( Kathryn Hahn) extend the set-bound feel of the Maximoff-Vision home, which we’ll refer to from here on out by its address number of 2800. In the previous episodes, the front of the house was shot on location (or a studio backlot) with natural sunlight. Both the backyard and front areas are realized with sets (and an obvious painted flat for Herb’s home), fake grass, and a few other visual cues which both honor the Bradys’ on-set backyard and call attention to the artificiality of the situation. The sudden appearance of brickwork throughout the house, the step down from the foyer to the living space, and certain elements in the kitchen - note the island and oven - also evoke the look of the classic sitcom.īut as with the stylistic callbacks to ’50s sitcoms in the first episode, episode 3’s commitment to the Brady aesthetic extends outside the home.
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Though it would last only five seasons, endless re-runs through the ’80s and ’90s (and four attempts to continue the series in new forms) made it iconic and a clear go-to as Wanda anticipates her soon-to-be family.Īlthough, it could be argued The Brady Bunch‘s most iconic element is its late ’60s decor, given a loving tribute on WandaVision via the multi-colored frosted glass feature above the entrance in this week’s episode. The Brady Bunch, launching in September 1969, told stories about a blended family of six children - three girls from wife Carol’s previous marriage and three boys fathered by widower Mike Brady - coping with their new living arrangement. But it’s clear from episode 3’s Partridge Family–inspired credit sequence and The Brady Bunch–style set alterations that WandaVision is moving away from the Bewitched format into the late 1960s or early 1970s and the large-family sitcoms of that era. The parallels to last week’s WandaVision are obvious.Ĭontinuing the parallel, to an extent anyway, is the switch to color and Wanda’s pregnancy - both a child and color filming would come to Bewitched by its third year. Season 1 stories included Samantha meeting Darren’s parents - it was a whirlwind courtship - and Darren trying to keep Samantha from revealing her witchy powers to his boss or the neighbors. It also started its run by focusing on newlyweds Samantha and Darren. All Rights Reserved.)Īs we mentioned last week, the television series Bewitched began its life in black-and-white.
Spoiler Alert: This feature reveals details from WandaVision episode 3 “Now In Color.” Stop here if you have not watched the episode.įrom Bewitched to The Brady Bunch: WandaVision Advances Its Family-Sitcom Aesthetic Let’s try to decode the puzzle of television history to see what becoming a family sitcom means to WandaVision. But considering what we now know about Westview, can we safely say this is all Wanda’s doing? With the advent of color on WandaVision, the series evokes an era of change and prepares for a big change itself - which may or may not be the real issue behind Wanda ( Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision’s ( Paul Bettany) current circumstances.
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