WandaVision Episode 4: We Interrupt This Program Review

For our review of the first three episodes of WandaVision, click here.

While the first three episodes of WandaVision helped set up a mysterious new sitcom-y world Wanda and Vision found themselves in, that cracks were still forming as it hinted at the outside world and its attempts to save Wanda from whatever was going on to her and Vision. Though there is certainly more to this story, this fourth episode provided more insight as to what was being done on the outside in what was essentially a recap of those first three episodes from that outside perspective which helped to round out the remainder of the cast. It may make a pretty definite claim as to who may very well be responsible, it should be taken with a grain of salt at this point.

Many may wonder how Geraldine (a.k.a. Monica Rambeau) (Teyonah Parris) got to Westview. This episode shed some light on this fact. Being a victim of the blip, this left her with that same adjustment period. It didn’t take long for her to be back at SWORD and her very first case took her to Westview, a real New Jersey town that disappeared from the outside world and FBI Agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) whom we previously heard trying to communicate with Wanda through a radio. Westview was protected by some sort of forcefield that made the town impenetrable from the outside. Unfortunately for Monica, she got to close which sucked her in and turned her into the character of Geraldine.

In fact, many of the characters in sitcom Westview are indeed actual people from the real town (notice the omissions of Dottie and Agnes). Monica’s incident would call upon the cavalry and the might of SWORD, including Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings), to help investigate. Darcy was of course the one who first discovered that the sitcom we know to be the first 3 episodes was being broadcast out of the forcefield (and the discovery about the sitcom characters) though there were other forces at play here. The way sitcom Westview operates is still unclear but as far as those within it are concerned, they are still part of one even if the series seems to have shifted away from that tone.

We can certainly count on Darcy, who was now a doctor, and Dennings to bring some levity and comic relief (and classic sitcom knowledge) to the proceedings as she watched sitcom Westview evolve over time and span decades. Meanwhile, the episode made a few callbacks to some of the questionable moments of the previous episodes as the colorized toy helicopter was a SWORD drone that transformed after traversing the forcefield while the bee keeper was a SWORD agent trying to enter the town from a sewer but was met with the forcefield which went underground as well (transforming his outfit) though his fate is unclear.

The episode ultimately led up to the moment Monica was expelled from sitcom Westview by Wanda, giving us a little more footage of that moment. Wanda was certainly upset by Monica’s intrusion in the seemingly perfect world that it appears she created perhaps as a coping mechanism for Vision’s death.

The end saw Monica greeted by a curious mob following her expulsion where she claimed that it was all Wanda. Now while it’s easy to think that, as mentioned, there’s got to be a lot more to that story and that will be worth following over the remaining 5 episodes of WandaVision.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.