WandaVision entered its fourth episode having slowly built an impressive amount of intrigue; its central mystery (namely, “What the hell is going on?”)
When WandaVision debuted on Disney Plus a month ago, it seemed like a sequence of carefully blown bubbles.
A lurch towards Marvel’s familiarly bombastic style was inevitable, but it came too early in the show’s run.
From that point on, the intrigue that made WandaVision such an alluring hit at the start had vanished; it has been coasting on momentum ever since.