Malazan Empire: QuickTidal - Viewing Profile - Malazan Empire

the presence of the kids indicates Mephisto...

Okay, so I assumed that we were in Wandas head...it turns out that's not the case. There is a real town of that name, and in it is a bubble of reality (Wanda probably created) where Wanda makes the rules, and when the outside world tries to gain access she shuns it and things go sideways, like when the guy in the first ep asked about their "past" and she made him choke and made Vision save him....and rewinding when they saw the beekeeper (AIM).

So my guess is that the residents of the town and characters on the sitcom are ACTUAL residents of the town where Wanda created her bubble reality. The beekeeper was AIM trying to gain access through the sewers underneath it, and the toy helicopter was SWORD gaining access through the air (and like dropped off Geraldine/Monica Rambeau), and the thudding in Ep 2 was either SWORD or AIM attempting to gain entry. In this ep we get Herb and Agnes talking to Vision while Wanda isn't there to almost break the veil that they are all trapped. This tell me a few things. Wanda isn't creating people out of thin air...those people are real, they are just puppeted on her strings, which makes me realize that she probably somehow reanimated Vision from Death. Wanda booting Geraldine/Monica out confirmed the bubble reality, and the real town is surrounded by SWORD agents. They could also all be dead like Vision...but that doesn't track for me...

There are some strong rumours about what happens next. The next ep is a FAMILY TIES homage, more specifically the episode where Tom hanks showed up to play the raging alcoholic uncle...(referenced by Bettany in the interview where he revealed all the sitcoms they spoof/homage)...my guess is that we will see Pietro...but since the MCU Pietro is dead as of AoU, Wanda is going to ACCIDENTALLY reach into the Fox-X-Men reality and rip the Evan Peters Quicksilver into the MCU one (there is a tweet of Bettany in QS garb with Peters in the foreground with his QS hair)...I imagine that this MIGHT be a hole in reality that Wanda can't fix...and we are seeing the kickoff of the multiverse that will play so heavily into Phase 4, like DOCTOR STRANGE 2: The Multiverse of Madness and Spidey 3.

We also have not yet seen Darcy (THOR 1 & 2), and Jimmy Woo (ANT-MAN cop) yet and we know they show up.

We also know that the 5th episode is a Malcom in the Middle homage, and 6th is Modern Family homage...and that 7-9 are in our world proper and act more like an MCU movie with no more sitcom references.

So I think that Wanda created the reality, it's messing things up and both AIM (evil) and SWORD (Space SHIELD) are trying to gain access to her to stop it...Monica getting the closest before mentioning Ultron and getting booted.