WandaVision: Episode 3 (Spoilers)

This will be brief.

Episode 3 is "The Brady Bunch" Birth episode. I see a lot of the "Easter egg" conversations online. Fascinating, but not my thing. Twins. The looming threat of Mephisto continues. Agnes is still hanging around, talking about her evil husband, Ralph. The little girl from Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) is all grown up and knows stuff. Once again, as in all three films, Wanda stops reality from coming into her manifested sitcom world.

I keep reading writers talking about how the show isn't going fast enough. I don't get that. It seems like anticipatory criticism, engaging one's expectations before engaging the work itself. As always, this doesn't mean that I expect an agreed-upon response, thumbs up or down. But when a show is using specific, detailed sitcom history as part of telling a tale that is clearly not a sitcom, the question is, "Why?" not "Why isn't the sitcom funnier?" This is not unlike looking at Bridgerton and questioning the literal truth of racial histo…