WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer on how the show subverted the superero genre: “The design of the show from early on was that we were going to frontload the TV sitcom stuff and the ‘Twilight Zone’ aspects with this Lynchian vibe'
Once seen as nothing more than a niche genre, superhero content has come to be a dominant force on screen. Television, especially, has seen a massive influx of such large-scale stories of late.
Big swings are always a risk, with some fans more comfortable with the same old tropes, rather than experiencing something new. Schaeffer was well aware of this and made a conscious effort to avoid one trope in particular: “Comics and comic material often have women who have epic powers on a scale that’s so enormous that it could destroy the world,” she says. “Then the narrative often goes in a direction where she comes undone emotionally and can’t control it.
Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker, two of the co-creators and executive producers of the DC Entertainment-HBO Max adult animated series “,” say that they also approached the show from a different perspective. Having a strong background in writing sitcoms, the duo compares the series to “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — “if Mary killed a bunch of people,” in Schumacker ’s words, as Harley and her compatriots often engage in acts of incredible brutality that feed into the show’s outrageous humor.
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