WandaVision “The Series Finale” Review
WandaVision “The Series Finale” is the ninth and final episode in the WandaVision series. And what a finale it turned out to be! Wanda faces her final challenge in the form of Agatha. And Vision is doing all he can to fight off the other Vision hinted at in the post credit scene of episode 8.
Plot
I feel like there’s alot and also not much to unpack here. But more of that later. Episode 9 picks up from the Agatha vs Wanda fight. With Agatha admitting she wants Wanda to use her full power against her so she can absorb it. She eventually reveals that Wanda is The Scarlet Witch and is destined to destroy the world.
Meanwhile Vision is fighting the fake version of himself but comes to an impasse when he overloads fake Vision’s programming and shows him memories of his past life. The fight sorta ends there and fake Vision is never seen again. (Disclaimer: There may have been something more but I was so uninterested at that point that I may have forgotten. The Vision fight is definitely forgettable.)
Billy and Tommy get to show off their powers as they enter the fray and thankfully so does Monica. Monica also manages to free fake Pietro from the spell Agatha put him under and he finally remembers who he is, Ralph Bohner. (Yes, that is his real last name. Honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cringe…)
Eventually Wanda accepts who she is. Surrounds the hex with runes so Agatha can’t use her magic and sucks her dry. Of all the magic she stole from her and her own. During which, she transforms anime girl style into the Scarlet Witch. Outfit, headpiece, extensions the whole shebang.
Review
You know it’s odd. I had zero expectations for the finale and I was still kinda “meh” with it once I’d seen it. It has it’s glorious moments which clealry took up most of the budget but everything else felt like it was happening because “it’s a 45 minute episode and we need something to happen.” I’m not saying it was bad. It was good. But as far as finales go it felt a bit lazy. Most of the time is Agatha and Wanda zapping each other and Agatha being smarmy.
The few emotional moments there are fall flat. it’s not that it brings about the wrong emotion. It’s brings about no emotion. None at all. The acting is great but it feels so forced. When you think, these are the people that did the previous episode, it’s even more perplexing.
Overall it’s a good but bloated episode that really focuses on the “pew pew magic girls” and not enough on the emotional impact losing Vision again and her kids will have on Wanda.
