![]() Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, The Crown? All trash. ![]() Call me crazy, but I don’t really like being bored out of my mind for twelve episodes as boring characters deliver pseudo-intellectual dialogue only to be inevitably disappointed by a dum plot-twist in the finale. With very few exceptions, television’s recent attempts to become more cinematic have only made me less interested in it. I love when they’re filmed “live in front of a studio audience,” and I especially love the unfairly maligned “laugh track.” To my mind, the sitcom should be regarded, right along side Jazz, as the great American art form. This is why the more I heard about WandaVision and what it was about – a superhero works through her trauma by reliving the sitcoms she used to watch as a child – the more it made me nostalgic, not for comic books and superheroes, but for my own sitcom journey. I find it both fun and comforting to hear Lou spin theories nerdy theories about Marvel superheroes – more fun, in fact, than watching the actual Marvel movies. ![]() I didn’t watch WandaVision, but I experienced it second hand by listening to the recaps my friend Louis Gaudio put out as part of his podcast Robots vs. Trust me, this motherfuckers will put the cast of ‘Seinfeld’ to shame.
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