Did ‘Physician Unusual 2’ Succeed as a ‘WandaVision’ Sequel? — Grade It!

The next comprises main spoilers from each Disney+’s WandaVision and the movement image Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity (now in theaters).

This Mom’s Day, what higher (?) event to take inventory of Wanda Maximoff’s ongoing post-Endgame journey , which was the main focus of the standalone Disney+ sequence WandaVision and most lately received up to date by Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity.

For starters, a number of phrases about my very own journey with Physician Unusual 2. I went right into a screening final Monday hoping that, mayyyyybe, there’d be a TVLine angle to jot down about — both a WandaVision reference (to Agatha or one thing), or a nod to different Disney+/MCU sequence. In any case, the early advertising requested us to consider that Wanda would present up as an ally to Steven Unusual, however presumably “act out” a bit in her Scarlet Witch persona.

As soon as that discipline of apple bushes was revealed to be an phantasm, although, and Wanda’s personal, fairly sinister curiosity in younger America Chavez’s multiverse-hopping potential was revealed, the belief washed over me: It is a stealth, full-on WandaVision follow-up. With Wanda because the Massive Unhealthy.

In current days, I’ve been placing superhero podcast after superhero podcast into my ears, and I used to be curious to listen to some opine that Physician Unusual 2 did Wanda — particularly, her evolution in WandaVision — soiled. That it lowered her to easily some “mom scorned, gone mad.”

I used to be at all times of the opinion that whereas WandaVision’s closing act advised that Wanda was “OK” with letting the sons she had conjured with magic fade away, however that mid-credits scene — which revealed her to be holed away at a distant cabin, obsessively poring over the Darkhold whereas Billy and Tommy’s voices bleated within the background — made clear {that a} darkish flip was forward. And Physician Unusual 2, for my part, organically adopted up on that. As a result of if we all know something (even from the MCU-adjacent Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D.), spending an excessive amount of time with the Darkhold can drive an individual mad.

Now, I’ll cede the purpose — made by some critics of Wanda’s position because the Massive Unhealthy in Physician Unusual 2 — that she did show to be ruthlessly kill-y in pursing her agenda, laying waste to many defenders of Kamar-Taj, fixing to do hurt to America and… nicely… doing what she did to the various Illuminati members. (Nonetheless #TooSoon.) That was large step up from merely mentally imprisoning the individuals of Westview, N.J.

Regardless your opinion of how natural Wanda’s heel flip in Physician Unusual 2 was, there isn’t any denying that Elizabeth Olsen was subsequent degree in her efficiency (and regarded hella good whereas delivering it). Ditto, Benedict Cumberbatch. And because the cameos went, seeing Hayley Atwell’s Captain Carter within the flesh (“I may do that all day”) was excellent, whereas the try at #JusticeForBlackBolt by means of Marvel’s Inhumans‘ Anson Mount was a reasonably hilarious shock that had my theater howling.

To be clear, Multiverse of Insanity was removed from an ideal film. However as an unabashed follow-up to TV’s WandaVision, how do you fee Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity? Did it do Wanda proper, or Wong fallacious?