Disney+ Crashed As ‘WandaVision’ Finale Breaks the Internet
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WandaVision’s season finale broke the internet again as the surge in viewers caused the streaming service to crash, again.
In an interview, star Elizabeth Olsen alluded to a shocking guest appearance, which made fans even more ravenous to be among the first to view the episode.
The Hollywood Reporter: Disney+ crashed for some users during the early morning hours Friday as throngs of fans attempted to watch the WandaVision season finale. Screenshots from irked fans posted to social media showed their screens with a message reading: “We’re sorry, but we cannot play the video you requested. Please try again. If the problem persists, contact Disney+ Support (Error Code 39).”
Not what you want to see when you stayed up to see #wandavision pic.twitter.com/hxCAO9yLJD
— ????Bill Goodykoontz ???? (@goodyk) March 5, 2021
SPOILERS AHEAD
The emotionally satisfying conclusion to the season finale (I believe they intended this to be a self-contained mini-series, not ongoing. Disney has made clear that anything they produce for the site that’s successful will have sequels, hence the season one appellation), did not, as some suspected, open a backdoor to introduce the X-Men into the MCU proper [i.e. the appearance of Evan Peters as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver], but was still some of the tightest storytelling we’ve seen from Marvel Studios.
I loved WandaVision. It ticked all the boxes, I was invested and it was beautiful, and I hope that WandaVision is the first step toward an MCU that doesn’t use easter eggs and character reveals as a substitute for plot.
Most critics echoed this sentiment.
(L-R): Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in Marvel Studios’ WANDAVISION exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. ©Marvel Studios 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Vulture: “Well, folks, we did it. You and I, along with all of our fellow WandaVision viewers, saved the universe — the Marvel Cinematic one, that is. At the outset of this series, it was hard not to feel like the MCU was approaching irrelevance in our brutally disillusioned and attention-deficient era. And yet, over the course of the past two months, this series has, for better or worse, rekindled the fire. It brought in new viewers, it introduced new conflicts, it teased new mysteries, it took new directions, and now it has a new lease on life. To paraphrase Robert Browning: Feige’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world.”
My friend, screenwriter Eddie Borey wrote on Facebook: “WandaVision is simultaneously a story about grief, an immigrant’s story, and a love letter to television. Way more ambitious than it needed to be, and I’m loving it.”
And that’s definitely on point. But did we learn anything? Was this all just remembrance of sitcoms and comic books past?
@marvelstudios_insiteI’m so sad that this is the last episode???????? but it was very good!!!
To an extent, that’s what it was, yes. A too-large extent, I’d contend. It was innovative within the context of the MCU, for sure, but not nearly as ambitious on an absolute scale. The meditations on grief were often deeply poignant (especially in this episode), but largely predictable. All of that said, the show did have something to say, and that something is terribly relevant. Around the 35-minute mark of this series finale, it struck me: This was a show that, deliberately or not, was about what it’s like to be in love at the end of the world.
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