‘WandaVision’ Recap: ‘We Interrupt This Program’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode Four of ‘WandaVision’.
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If there is one thing that fans of the new Disney+ series, WandaVision, have been patiently waiting for… it would have to be answers. Simply because the first few episodes of this fascinating show have been mired in mystery, since the story hasn’t been forthcoming in the slightest in regard to what exactly is happening to Wanda Maximoff and how on earth Vision has to returned to life, Nor has it to bothered to explain why they’re both trapped in a unique sitcom world that is changing around them on a regular basis. But thankfully, after weeks of dropping clues and building tension, this series finally decided that the time was right to offer its loyal fans some outright answers. 
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Which made ‘We Interrupt This Program’ a fascinating and compelling and downright heartbreaking tale. One that oddly wasted little time in giving us some of the answers we seek, such as Geraldine’s true identity. For in the opening moments of this episode, we came to learn that she is in fact, Captain Monica Rambeau. Who last made an appearance in the MCU in Captain Marvel​. And when we catch up with her, here, she’s returned from the void that Thanos put half the universe into and is trying to put the pieces of her life back together and reconcile the fact that her mother died while she was lost to The Snap/The Blip. Which motivates her to just get right back down to work with S.W.O.R.D. and for her first mission back, she’s tasked with examining some strange occurrences involving a town named Westview out in New Jersey.

A decision that of course, quickly changes her life in a supremely strange manner. For it isn’t long before she discovers that there is an energy field surrounding this town and that everyone that either works there or is from there, doesn’t believe that the town exists and well, a little curiosity on what that field is all about, gets her sucked into the town and that in turn, brings every agency known to man to Westview. Which allowed for fans to spend plenty of time with FBI Agent Jimmy Woo, who finally learned that damn card trick, and Darcy Lewis also returned to the MCU fold by coming in to offer her analysis on this mess, and we were able to learn that she’s grown as a character and has become an outright brilliant doctor. Since she is the one that figured out that a television signal was broadcasting from this town… one starring two Avengers. 

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But what matters more, is that this setup allowed for us to learn that some of the stranger moments that Wanda has experienced from within the confines of her own sitcom, have in fact… been related to S.W.O.R.D. For it was Darcy that was watching the show in the closing moments of ‘Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience’ and it was a S.W.O.R.D. agent that popped out of the sewer at the end of that tale, as well. Plus, it turns out that Jimmy Woo was the mysterious voice on the radio in ‘Don’t Touch That Dial’, meaning that everything strange that’s happened to Wanda isn't sinister in the slightest, and is in fact, related to a rescue mission in essence. Since this group of incredible minds have been working to free her from whatever force has captured her, and that’s when this story dug into some devastating territory.

For in the closing minutes of this tale we finally arrived at the moment that Monica returned from WandaVisionLand and she had something quite powerful to say. In that, it appears that Wanda is the true mastermind of this whole thing and there’s a lot of truth to be found in that statement. For not only is Wanda the reason that Monica is back in reality, since she used her powers to eject Captain Rambeau from Westview, but Wanda was quick to fix any damage to the house and this fictional world before the story revealed something quite shocking to us. In that, Wanda is in possession of Vision’s broken and lifeless corpse and she is somehow giving him a second chance at existence by way of this sitcom and well, not only was that awe-inducing and heartbreaking… but it changes the entire tone of this series through and through.

Because now it would seem that this story is nothing more than a grand tragedy. One where a hero that also returned from The Blip, fell into a dark place mentally, when the reality of what happened in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame finally sank in, and her broken spirit has motivated her to create her own world to cope with the horrors of reality and that is a powerful twist for certain. Because fallen hero stories are rare to say the least, and the closest the MCU has ever come to exploring it before this, was by way of Iron Man 3. In the end however, this really was an incredibly brilliant tale. One that filled in the gaps nicely whilst offering up a game changing revelation and that ending is going make the wait for next week’s episode a difficult one for certain. As we eagerly wait to see where this incredible twist is going to take us. Until next time.

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