What Is Grief, If Not Love Persevering?: A Palliative Perspective On WandaVision

by SarahScott B. Dietz (@SDietzMD)WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS FORWANDAVISION.In January,WandaVision released on Disney+, promising a weekly serial centered around two romatincally involved and familiar Marvel characters, Wanda Maximoff (aka Scarlet Witch) and Vision. The advertisements showed a black and white, vintage look to the show, and gave few clues as to exactly how it would tie in with the rest of theMarvel Cinematic Universe. Fans were intrigued for many reasons, chief among them being that the last time we saw Vision,he was dead. (CW-Superhero violence/death)I dove intoWandaVision like many fellow geeks: remote in hand, rewinding to scrutinize frames for clues as to what the " Big Story " was, and trying to solve the mystery before they revealed all. My Nick At Nite viewings ofMy Three Sons andPatty Duke provided ample cultural references for those first few episodes, and my Marvel lore was at least adequate. But where was it all headed?Somewhere around the third or fourth episode, it hit me like a vibranium baseball bat.WandaVision is a study on grief, loss, and mourning, in layers and layers. I took to Twitter, as one does, noting that colleagues in palliative medicine might want to keep an eye on the show. A friend replied, asking why I would think so.“It’s Wanda, it’s a giant grief bubble for her. She’s doing this out of grief,” I replied." I see it now, ” he said, “It’s like superhero complicated grief.”Complicated grief i...
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