WandaVision episode 6 review, looking back: Evan Peters' Pietro and the questions it raised

WandaVision episode six turned out to be another awesome entry in the Marvel series (2021), which starred Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany. There was no surprise cameo this time, and that was totally fine, because the show doesn't need to rely on cameos. What stood out instead was how many characters were asking the right questions: Monica, Vision and Quicksilver all were.

Looking back, the mysteries this episode left open, including Pietro's identity and the Agatha reveal, were settled by the time WandaVision's finale aired in March 2021. The theories below are the ones we had when the episode was new.

Going in, every week had felt like each episode got better than the last. After episode five, we didn't know what to expect anymore. The big curiosity was how much Evan Peters we were going to get.

WandaVision episode 6 opens from Billy and Tommy's perspective

The sitcom portion was loved this time around. The family is dressed in their comic book costumes, their original costumes, which was great. The episode started almost from the perspective of the twins, Billy and Tommy, as they broke the fourth wall. That was a lot of fun to see.

Wanda's perfect life inside Westview continued to crackle, with Vision not wanting to do the things she hoped he would. He was breaking away from the script. That may have followed the way sitcoms moved over the decades, from the perfect little family life to more real-life content: sibling rivalry, more confrontation between parents, and an uncle undermining everything.

Evan Peters' Pietro and the questions around him

Uncle Pietro was great, and the way he was added in was loved. The questions surrounding him at the time were many. In one scene he asks Wanda if she remembers a time they went trick-or-treating, and she says that's not how she remembers it. This Pietro looked different from the one we knew in the MCU, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. This one was Evan Peters from Fox's X-Men.

The conversation between Wanda and Pietro on the haystack in the town square stood out. He mentions looking different and says the last thing he remembers is being shot in the street, then hearing her calling him. We knew Wanda had gone into SWORD and retrieved Vision's body to animate him. We also saw a zombie Pietro. So had Wanda, or someone, gotten hold of Quicksilver's dead body? If that had been the case, I thought they would have brought in Aaron Taylor-Johnson, even for a quick flash.

Pietro was also walking a line between living in this reality and asking questions someone in it wouldn't ask, like how Wanda hid all these kids. Many commenters had theorized that he wasn't really Pietro, but someone wearing a Pietro face to get close to Wanda and learn about her powers. At the time, that seemed very possible. The word nightmare was also dropped twice. It might have been reading too much into it, but "this is the kind of show where you could do that and you could be correct and of course you could be incorrect."

Agnes, Vision and the frozen edges of Westview

We also saw more of Agnes. For a second, there was a thought that she might be in on the whole thing, but she was stuck in her car, and her conversation with Vision was interesting. She asks if he's one of the Avengers, here to help, and he doesn't know what that is. If Agnes was caught up in all this and unaware, she might still have been Agatha Harkness and still been trapped. Or it was a ploy to make Vision realize he had a whole past life he did not remember.

A reference that sounded like Shangri-La also came up. Our guess was Shang-Chi, which was one of the next Marvel movies at the time, though there was a feeling the Shang-Chi movie would just be a Shang-Chi movie.

Hayward, Monica and Darcy

Hayward drew real dislike, and there was some wondering whether the show was starting to hint at hatred toward people with powers. Darcy pulled up Monica's blood work in Hayward's files, showing the energy inside the hex had rewritten her cells on a molecular level. That looked like how Monica eventually got her powers. If there was something secret in that base, it had now been overtaken by the hex and was under Wanda's power. Monica also said she was meeting her guy, and we didn't know who he was.

The claymation commercial turned dark

For the first time in the series, the commercial didn't star the same man and woman. Its stop-motion clay animation felt like a 1990s commercial, until it took a dark turn where the kid couldn't open the snack. That raised the question of whether it pointed to Wanda and Pietro starving after their parents died. Using claymation was a good choice: still creepy, but less so.

Wanda expands the hex to save Vision

To keep Vision from coming apart, Wanda pushed Westview's borders outward, far further than we expected. Our guess was that because she didn't have an exact location of Vision, she pushed it as far as she could and stopped when she felt that was probably enough. What effect would that have on her reality? She now had to control more people and more things, changing the material of more stuff. Seeing Billy and Tommy's powers come into play was loved, and this might simply have been Wanda expanding her powers even more, because we know she's powerful.