'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,' now streaming on Disney, marks a new direction for Marvel – a downsizing to television after 2 decades of big-screen superhero splendor. Marvel's top gun Kevin Feige, stars Anthony Mackie/Falcon and Sebastian Stan/Winter Soldier, and others gathered for a virtual press conference and discussed current and maybe upcoming developments. Q: Is there a possibility that there could be more seasons of'Falcon'? KEVIN FEIGE: It's a funny question and it's one that we obviously get asked much more in television. Because people expect it to be like what people know before.

If--like Wanda Maximoff--you've been living in your own reality, distant from all things in 2021, you may not have heard about "WandaVision," whose first and only season ended on March 5th. The immensely popular show, from Disney and Marvel Studios, follows Wanda, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch, an Eastern European refugee with "chaos magic" powers, and her husband Vision, a synthezoid (android) who died in the events of the Marvel movie "Avengers: Infinity War." Nearly all nine episodes of "WandaVision" depict the pair in what appears to be domestic suburban bliss. Nearly all take plots and visual style from one of the sitcoms that Wanda watched for solace during her bleak wartime youth, from the black and white of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" to the faux-reality vibe of "The Office." These anachronistic, self-contained sitcom scenarios fall apart as people from the outside world break in.

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.

This article contains spoilers for the first five episodes of WandaVision. Let's start with the biggest question. What was the deal with "Pietro" at the end of the episode? That was Evan Peters reprising his role as the late Pietro Maximoff, Wanda's brother, but--and here's the twist--it's not the Pietro Maximoff we've seen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The MCU's Pietro, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, died in Avengers: Age of Ultron.