WandaVision Recap: While You Were Blipping

We see Monica outside, saying, “It’s Wanda. It’s all Wanda.” Back in the show, Wanda picks up a baby and says, “What should we watch tonight?” Vision looks slightly upset and confused, but keeps it together and smiles in his robot face. They sit on the couch, and while Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” wails, they watch some TV and the credits roll.

a blast that sends Monica through the wall and outside, then into the force field. Wanda looks perturbed and uses her powers to reconstruct the house, then goes back to her twins in their cradle. Vision walks in and asks where Geraldine is; cut to Monica on the grass in the real world as we saw at the end of episode three. We then see that Vision looks dead, with his head caved in where Thanos destroyed his Infinity Stone in Avengers: Infinity War. But then he looks fine again.

After a montage implying lots of research, we learn that all the characters on the sitcom are being played by people from Westview. That is, except “Geraldine” — a.k.a. Monica — whom Darcy sees on the screen, prompting everyone to freak out. After some hand-waved science babble, they decide to attempt to contact the TV world by broadcasting a radio signal into the world of the show. Someone shows Jimmy a photo of the drone on the show, which is in color against a black-and-white backdrop — “To go with the production design?” Jimmy wonders; “Or render it useless?” Darcy adds.

Onscreen text informs us that 24 hours have passed, and now we’re inside an armored truck, where four scientists sit in the back. As it turns out, one of them is astrophysicist Darcy Lewis, a.k.a. the wry sidekick from the first two Thor movies, played by the one and only Kat Dennings. First Jimmy, now Darcy … they’re bringing out the medium-sized guns, folks! It seems she got her doctorate since Thor: The Dark World, which is nice for her. She and the scientists get out and find themselves in a massive, militarized, interagency staging area at the city limits of Westview. Inside one of the makeshift buildings, Darcy converses with a humorless agent and notices on a device that there are enormous amounts of cosmic microwave background radiation, a.k.a. CMBR. Darcy sees an old physio-scope on the ground (why it’s there is beyond me), turns it on, and sees the vague outlines of Wanda in her 1950s garb. Darcy immediately declares that she needs a TV. “An old one,” she says. “Like, not flat.”

Tyler tells Monica that, per her mom’s own protocol, she’s no longer allowed to act as an astronaut (I guess Maria wanted to prevent mysteriously disappearing individuals from returning and fulfilling sinister missions?), but that there’s a missing-persons case in New Jersey that has the FBI “in a tizzy” and that S.W.O.R.D. wants her to chaperone a drone for their search efforts. Skeptical, Monica follows orders and drives to the quaint Jersey town of … Westview.