TV Review: WandaVision Season 1 - Episode 4
“WandaVision’s” Fourth episode brings forward the show’s most satisfying entry so far
87/100 “sweet”
By Quinn Marcus
If this show gets any better, I might explode. Seriously, how can this show get any worse, there’s too much good to it. Now, I don’t want to jinx things, but I want to share my new, jubilant feeling I have for this show. (Spoiler Warning) WandaVision episode four allows us to take a glimpse back into the modern world, post-Endgame. Monica Rambeau comes back from ‘The Blip’ in 2023 and wakes up to a world, unlike the one she left behind. Her mother is dead, and the organization she works for, S.W.O.R.D. has almost completely changed its purpose. So, she’s given a mission to work with the F.B.I. to solve a mysterious missing person’s case, or to be more specific, an entire town. S.W.O.R.D. quickly steps into action the moment Monica disappears into Wanda’s sitcom reality, and we get to see what the agency has been up to these past few episodes. So many questions were answered, nearly all the gaps left by the previous episodes, filled. The episode even answers a pothole from Avengers: Endgame which I thought was pretty awesome. I felt satisfied to actually have information that helped me put together the broken pieces episodes 1, 2, and 3 left behind. I strangely became more invested in S.W.O.R.D’s plot than the sitcom world itself. I hope they don’t keep switching back and forth with every episode because that would leave me pretty displeased. All the acting in this episode was solid, Randall Park has finally been introduced as Jimmy Woo. Also, Kat Dennings came back as Darcy, remember her from the first two Thor films, because we ALL wanna know what happened to Darcy, am I right? One issue I had was that the runtime felt a tad too concise, an extra five minutes would have made a huge difference in my opinion. Also, despite being a game-changer for the show, this episode was a massive tonal shift from the previous episodes; but then again, maybe that’s what’s great about it. I don’t feel like I’m running to catch up anymore, this was truly an information-packed episode. Many shows have attempted to do something like this but have all failed, I usually hate filler episodes, but not when the episode’s compelling story trump’s what I’d seen before. I am really happy with what I saw today, and I sincerely hope the show keeps up its unique gimmick.
The final opinion is…Episode 4 of WandaVision stray’s from the sitcom to answer most of our questions while remaining conceptually fascinating itself…BINGE IT!