WandaVision Episode 4 Positions Wanda as the Villain of Her Story
But this show has already revealed how we should never accept anything at face value.
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WandaVision Explained is our ongoing series that keeps tabs on Marvel Studios’ sitcom saga about TV’s happiest tragic couple. In this entry, we turn our channel to WandaVision Episode 4 and contemplate the tragedy that links Wanda’s fantasy to the MCU’s reality. Yes, prepare for SPOILERS.
Is Vision alive? FBI Agent Jimmy Woo (
Randall Park) scrawls the question on a whiteboard within the S.W.O.R.D. compound outside Westview, New Jersey, asking what we’ve all been wondering for the past three weeks. The answer is not definite, but
were a total departure from the Marvel movie formula. Thanks to whatever combination of mysterious forces was keeping Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) trapped in a decade-jumping sitcom prison, viewers were getting a flyby lesson in TV history while two relatively minor Avengers went about their quirky lives. The experiment was a hoot and honestly, we’d watch an entire season of Scarlet Witch and Vis playing pretend without any winks to the camera.
But episode 4, “We Interrupt This Program,” departs from the formula in order to show
WandaVision’s true Marvelness. There’s something strange going on, and a new trailer for the back half of the season promises more of what fans might expect from the MCU.
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What in the blip is going on?
Episode 4 of âWandaVision,â titled âWe Interrupt This Program,â finally gave viewers a look behind the curtain of the Marvel sitcom with a little help from two new characters, Dr. Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) and FBI agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park). And what was hidden may be even darker than whatâs on the surface.
It appears that Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) created her own alternate reality in order to bring Vision (Paul Bettany) back to life, and everyone in the immediate vicinity is getting sucked into her sitcom world. This includes Geraldine (Teyonah Parris), who is actually Captain Monica Rambeau from Marvel agency S.W.O.R.D. In fact, all the weird occurrences, such as the toy helicopter and the beekeeper from Episode 2, are attempts by the Marvel agency to infilt
For three episodes now,
WandaVision has mostly given us a wacky sitcom homage. Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) has made it clear that she is in control of whatever fake show they are appearing on, and Vision (Paul Bettany) is somehow still alive. Nobody really knows what’s going on, but in the latest episode, we just got a peek behind the curtain.
Episode 4 of the Disney+ series, appropriately titled We Interrupt This Program, showed us that the authorities outside of Wanda’s fiction are just as puzzled as to what is happening as real audiences likely are. We also saw just how firmly connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe the series is. in case there was any lingering doubt. In many ways, this installment begins Phase 4 of the MCU in earnest, thanks to some returning friends.