My first impression after watching “We Interrupt This Program,” the fourth episode of Marvel’s live-action drama series
Wandavision, was a strange combination of melancholy and déjà vu. The revelation that Wanda Maximoff (a.k.a. Scarlet Witch) and her husband Vision’s misadventures as suburban newlyweds was all in fact an elaborate fantasy conjured into being by Wanda’s own powers was an effective twist, but the implied motivations behind Wanda’s hoax are what struck me so deeply.
I felt sympathetic to her unwillingness to live in a Post-Blip world without anyone left in her life to confide in or rely on, and I was horrified by the implications of what her powers were doing to the minds of all 3,892 of Westview’s hapless denizens. But another thought crossed my mind: