WandaVision

I'm behind on a lot of streaming shows, so I decided to play a little catch up over the last two weeks. I finished Bridgerton last week (lovely costumes, super attractive cast, basically the subtext of a Jane Austen novel come to life - I haven't read the books the series is based on), and spent yesterday watching the entire series of WandaVision. I read a lot about WandaVision when it was released earlier this year AND managed to avoid spoilers (shocking I know). At its core, the show is about profound grief. Yes, there are all sorts of Marvel-y things that happens, but at the end of the day, it's about grief. 

Phase 4 of the MCU content has been planned for years, but what a time to release a show about loss, grief, and power?! The creators couldn't have anticipated a global pandemic happening and the amount of loss people have experienced since last year, but I do wonder how much this has changed the way people view this show. This ran through my head yesterday while I was watching the show, but another thing kept popping up for me too. I kept thinking about a friend, not someone who has died, but someone who is no longer in my life. I haven't spoken to this person in five years.

I have no idea why we're no longer friends. Friendships change with time, but I find it's rare that close friendships just end abruptly and without any knowledge of why it's happening, but that's what happened in this case. Vision's comment about grief struck me as something we can apply in any situation in which we're grieving or experience loss. I woke up this morning thinking about this quote and this person. I think it's because there's still love in my heart for them, and that's why I feel a sense of grief when I think about them. I'm not angry we're not friends anymore, but sad. It hits me at weird times, like when watching this show or when something happens I'd really like to tell them about. It doesn't matter what kind of loss you're working through, it takes time to process it. That's how grief works.

Vision says this quote to Wanda, trying to comfort in events that take place before the events of WandaVision. I won't spoil anything for you, but I will say the cast is delightful and it's a fun world to inhabit even if only for nine episodes. Sidebar: Can we get a Jimmy Woo/Darcy spin-off series? I'd watch that in a heartbeat.

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