WandaVision episode 8 recap: Marvel show dives into Wanda's painful past - CNET

Turns out the witch Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) was responsible for pretty much all the weirdness we've seen so far, and she's got Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) trapped in her ludicrously creepy basement.

Also, astrophysicist Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) filled in Wanda's husband, Vision (Paul Bettany), on the past he'd forgotten, and he's on his way home.

We're up to the penultimate episode, and it's called Previously On.

This whole episode is basically Agatha trying to figure out exactly what Wanda is, since her power is off the charts.

Given what we saw earlier in the episode, it seems like Wanda had some latent ability to tap into this magic and it was enhanced by the Mind Stone?

Agatha presumably wants to control this power, but to what end.

The Vision we've been seeing in Westview has actually been a magical construct, created by Wanda. .

Since Wanda's Chaos magic is red, it seems likely this was the forbidden power Agatha got in trouble for using -- she just couldn't use it at the same level as Wanda. .

Their TV night -- The Dick Van Dyke Show, season 2, episode 21 -- looks pretty nice, but there's a horrifying war raging outside, and the sense of inevitability is palpable. .

The parents are killed in an explosion, an incident referenced in Avengers: Age of Ultron and the commercial in episode 2.

She gets a vision of her comic book costume, but it's unclear if this has any significance in the MCU.

Wild thought: What if Wanda was actually seeing her comic book counterpart.

We previously thought contact with the Mind Stone gave her and Pietro their powers, but Agatha reckons it awoke or supercharged her latent abilities.

We jump to a moment with Vision in the Avengers compound in the period following Age of Ultron, when Wanda is mourning Pietro's death.

Vision acknowledges that he's never felt loss like she has, but reveals the depth of his empathy.

This is clearly another major high on Wanda's emotional rollercoaster, and Thanos would later bring her low by killing Vision in Avengers: Infinity War.

It seems to be season 1, episode 7, in which Cindy Brady treats her doll like a real baby and it goes missing

It's the season finale, so expect Westview to get leveled by colored beams of energy or something