What if I Told You em WandaVision /em Is em The Matrix /em From the Perspective of the Machines?

WandaVision crossed into the 21st century, replacing the laugh-tracked reality created by its all-powerful heroine with the single-camera format that has come to dominate TV throughout the past two decades. But while the series tipped its hat to sitcom evolution with its opening credits (a riff on Malcolm in the Middle, which debuted in 2000), another of the series' influences passed by unremarked. The movie theater in Westview's town square may be playing a double feature of The Incredibles and Lindsay Lohan's remake of The Parent Trap, but there's no questioning which movie's world Westview is actually in: 1999's The Matrix. In A Glitch in the Matrix, a new documentary centered on people who believe that what we see as reality is actually a computer simulation, one subject describes his recurring vision: He's wandered outside the active area of the simulation to find figures frozen, body stiff, arms outstretched, in a T-pose--the default position for 3D animation, the resting state to which computer characters return when the program stops giving them instructions. That's the same version of reality that Wanda's husband, Vision--or whatever we're supposed to call the figure that looks like him and seems to carry his consciousness--finds when he wanders toward the edges of Westview, the bubble that Wanda has created to shield herself from the truth of Vision's death.