Here are Avengers Wanda Maximoff and her beau Vision in an environment we’ve never seen them before: In American suburbia in black and white. It all looks like an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, but that’s part of the point in WandaVision.

Disney+ debuted its first Marvel Cinematic Universe series in January to great reviews. But taking place following the events of Avengers: Endgame, it is quite a 180 when we see Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany playing husband and wife in a giddy 1960s sitcom.

That’s the point, however, and the premiere episode “Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience” written by series creator Jac Schaeffer is part of a slow burn into the inner psyche and surrounding environment of Olsen’s Wanda. For Schaeffer, WandaVision is built around the stages of grief, while director Matt Shakman met with folks like Van Dyke to authentically stage...