Their new home also closely resembles that of the Keaton’s.
Wanda and Vision’s ‘80s outfits are closely similar to Steven and Elyse’s usual threads. WandaVision obviously doesn’t borrow much, if any, of Family Ties’s themes but it does liberally (no pun intended) take from the show’s style and look. Family Ties was as much a time capsule as it was a TV show. Fox), the eldest child and an aspiring Wall Street bro. The show was particularly famous for the character of Alex P. It followed the Keaton family, made up of ex-hippie parents Steven (Michael Gross) and Elyse (Meredith Baxter), raising their children in Reagan’s America. Now, the sitcom that episode 5 “On a Very Special Episode…” is paying homage to is unquestionably the 1982 NBC series Family Ties.įamily Ties was perhaps the archetypal ‘80s sitcom, as it deftly captured both the aesthetics and class politics of the era. Episodes one through three cribbed from The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, and The Brady Bunch, respectively. It’s well-established at this point that each episode of WandaVisionuses one sitcom of a particular era as a stylistic jumping off point. But even among Agnes’s fourth wall breaking, Norm’s mortal terror, and Vision’s sleuthing, episode 5 contains a truly impressive amount of sitcom homages. Sure, the cracks in Wanda’s facade are beginning to show a little more consistently. This week, however, WandaVision thrusts us right back into the sitcom world of Wanda Maximoff’s making. It provided a much-needed dose of explanations and exposition. Last week’s WandaVision took a break from our regularly scheduled programming to check in with Monica Rambeau, Jimmy Woo, and Darcy Lewis as they studied the Westview Anomaly. This article contains spoilers for WandaVision episode 5.
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