Underneath all those bells and whistles, “WandaVision” is an exploration of grief — through superpowered protagonists. Schaeffer structured the series to conform to the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross model of stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. “They were able to be hilarious and live in the sitcom space and never lose sight of that grief journey. Making the spell that creates her insular sitcom world and all that has to be shown to her, so that’s the denial piece, those first three episodes,” Schaeffer adds. That transition from pure sitcom world to Marvel was something we carefully planned out.”Schaeffer said, “The ‘Modern Family’ episode was always meant to be the depression episode.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 10, 2021 14:26 UTC