WandaVision Episode 5 Reaction: That Quicksilver Casting Cliffhanger Stole the Show for Us

Our verdict on WandaVision episode five: a great cliffhanger, and the Quicksilver reveal was the moment that got us most excited. Seeing Quicksilver played by the actor from Fox's X-Men films, rather than the one from Avengers: Age of Ultron, left us thrilled and eager for what came next.

The Quicksilver reveal had us thrilled

Fox and Marvel both wanted to use the character, struck some kind of deal and ended up with two different actors. The X-Men version was the one people liked so much more, and the show brought him in instead of the actor who was killed in Age of Ultron. It was easy to get so caught up in the casting that the story ramifications barely registered: "that's so cool that's so exciting."

We both admitted to a moment of hesitation, recognising the hairstyle from behind but not wanting to say the wrong name. We also both said we barely remember the Age of Ultron actor, and that felt a little sad given the work he put into the part. Still, the reaction was "i'm super stoked", along with hope that the show would make really good use of him.

The sitcom scenes felt slow, but sinister

The complaint was plain: "i just wish you would go a little faster." The daytime family drama, the dog and the sitcom framing felt like they slowed things down when the story was getting exciting. That said, Wanda telling her kids you cannot reverse death read as a message she should take herself, because "sometimes you can't just cheat your way through grief", and she brought her husband back.

The other side of that debate: the familiar sitcom world is what makes the unravelling work, from the neighbour offering to take a line again from the top to the hints that Wanda controls everything. Played that subtly, "it feels really scary."

Vision's awakening and the unanswered questions

Vision going through what felt like "a truman show revelation" was pretty neat, as he rebels against Wanda's control and she doubles down on her lies. We wondered whether he is really himself after being brought back without the Mind Stone, since characters returned from the dead usually have something missing.

Questions piled up for us. Why is this a broadcast at all, jumping through the decades, and who are the credits for, since Vision cannot see them? What did Wanda do to the barrier when it turned red? Was her returning Sokovian accent another sign of her unravelling? We also expected the hinted tension between Monica Rambeau and Captain Marvel to be addressed, because why drop it otherwise?

Who did you think the WandaVision broadcast and its credits were really for?