WANDAVISION
Disney+, 3:00 a.m. ET
The weekly episodes of WandaVision that drop each Friday on Disney+ have become, very quickly, one of the TV treats I most look forward to as the weekend approaches. After seeing only the first three episodes, I was excited by this Marvel TV show’s possibilities, and mused that it might be the first television show I can remember that began as a sitcom but had the potential to morph into an all-out drama. Last week, with Episode 4, it flirted with exactly that possibility. The entire show took place outside the city limits of Wanda’s sitcom “community,” offering a new perspective – one that played as a drama without a laugh track, and which featured Kat Dennings as her wisecracking, irreverent character from the Thor movies, watching the Wanda and Vision characters exist in a mysterious, seemingly invented, vintage-TV world. And when Dennings’ Darcy Lewis, looking at Wanda and Vision living in their apparently fabricated existence through a TV signal captured on the outskirts of town, says “I’m invested,” I laughed out loud. By that point, so was I. Today, Disney+ unveils Episode 5, which I expect will fuse the two worlds. For now. This show is exploring uncharted territory, and I’m happy to be along for the ride.