It’s incredibly unlikely that Eleanor will be revealed to be a vampire in the remaining episode of “Hawkeye.” But considering an MCU film about the half-vampire Blade is already in the works, it’s hard to write anything off completely.Īfter being teased earlier in the season, Kingpin’s involvement with the Tracksuits is finally confirmed in Episode 5. And not only had Eleanor been turned into a vampire, the potential antidote was the blood of Kate’s best friend. But the surprise reunion is complicated by the revelation that Eleanor is indeed involved in Masque’s operations, though probably only to be cured of her vampirism. In a followup comic book series, “ West Coast Avengers,” Kate is reunited with her mother. as a private investigator, an inquiry into her father‘s whereabouts leads her to the discover that he is a villain himself - leading Kate to become suspicious about her mother‘s fate as well.Īlthough Kate’s father admits to killing Eleanor, there are clues that she’s actually still alive - and possibly working with Kate’s nemesis, Madame Masque. But during a 2016-18 “Hawkeye” run that sees Kate living in L.A. This culminates with Uncle Ned attacking Alex.In the comics, Kate believed her mother died when she was younger. While spending some time with the Keaton family, Uncle Ned quickly makes it clear that he has a drinking problem (which includes him consuming vanilla extract). The season 2 entry “Say Uncle” features none other than Tom Hanks as Uncle Ned. The aforementioned Family Ties featured many, many “special episodes.” One Family Ties special episode, in particular, is quite noteworthy. Every so often, a network’s voiceover would interrupt the beginning of a particular episode by saying “Tonight, on a very special episode of XXX…”īefore content warnings became in vogue, this was usually a gentle nudge that this episode could cover some “real shit.” The “very special episode” warning could precede an installment covering everything from drug use to child abuse to Punky Brewster getting trapped in a refrigerator. The name of this episode is particularly apt.Īnyone who watched sitcoms in the ‘70s or ‘80s could tell you about the “very special episode” phenomenon. There have been so many familiar TV-related phrases through nearly a century of broadcasting and WandaVision seems determined to shout out all of them. We need to take a moment to appreciate just how good WandaVision’s episode titles have been. Both the lyrics and the handcrafted style suggest that of season 2 of the NBC show.Įpisode 5 also takes some aesthetic inspiration from ‘80s sitcoms Growing Pains and Step by Step, but Family Ties is the real homage here. The Family Ties comparisons extend to even the episode’s opening intro. Back when WandaVision’s very first trailer premiered, many astute viewers were able to identify the Family Ties homage quicker than anything else. 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.
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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.
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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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