"We Interrupt This Program" is the fourth episode of the American television miniseries WandaVision, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and Vision.

Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen reprise their respective roles as Vision and Wanda Maximoff from the film series, with Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, and Kathryn Hahn also starring.

personnel use the show to observe events inside the town, learning that the real residents have been "cast" as characters, Rambeau is "Geraldine", and Vision is alive despite his death five years prior.

agent Franklin crawls through the sewer system in an attempt to enter Westview, but his suit is transformed into beekeeper attire and his tether detaches and turns into a jump rope at the edge of the static field.

[4][5] He and head writer Jac Schaeffer executive produced alongside Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, and Victoria Alonso.

"[14] Schaeffer had found the central idea of Maximoff being responsible for the series' sitcom reality to be a simple concept, and felt it would be satisfying to fans to introduce it as a mystery first before explaining the story from the perspective of Monica Rambeau and S.W.O.R.D.

She noted that this turned the episode into an "enormous info dump" for the audience, but hoped that all the answers would help viewers see the rest of the series as an "emotional and a psychological journey, rather than a sneaky mystery the whole way".

The writers discussed starting the episode with a more traditional character introduction sequence such as having Rambeau working out, training, or spending time with a dog, but they felt this lacked emotion.

[17] After many conversations about how to portray people returning from the Blip, the writers and producers decided to set the sequence in a hospital as an interesting place to depict the scariness and confusion of the event from Rambeau's perspective.

[15]: 12:46–14:00 The episode stars Paul Bettany as Vision, Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, Randall Park as Jimmy Woo, Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis, and Kathryn Hahn as Agnes.

An area past the fake walls was lit to match an outside environment, but the production did not have a long enough run to film the stunt that far so the change in lighting from inside to outside had to be created with visual effects.

Supervisor Julien Héry said there were a lot of small details added to the town to make it look realistic without drawing attention, such as traffic lights, trash cans, and fire hydrants.

Bettany wore a bald cap and face makeup on set to match Vision's color, as well as tracking markers for the visual effects teams to reference.

[34] Complex 3D and digital makeup techniques were then used to create the character, with sections of Bettany's face replaced with CGI on a shot-by-shot basis; the actor's eyes, nose, and mouth were usually the only elements retained.

[41] Composer Christophe Beck said that, as a Marvel fan, the episode's opening sequence gave him goosebumps when he first watched it, and he was pleased with the intensity of the music he wrote that "brought out the chaos in that moment".

[45] Bleeding Cool's Ray Flook felt the poster design was showing "the walls between realities... falling apart faster than Wanda can fix them".

[46] Adam Barnhardt at ComicBook.com felt the flower pattern wallpaper in the center of the poster between Vision and Agnes looked like "an evil distorted face", and speculated that this could be a tease for Mephisto given the design had the character's "classic hair and cowl".

[51] Nielsen Media Research, which measures the number of minutes watched by United States audiences on television sets, listed WandaVision as the fifth most-watched original streaming series for the week of January 25 to 31, 2021.

The site's critical consensus reads, "'We Interrupt This Program' takes a break from Westview to give the excellent Teyonah Parris' Monica Rambeau some welcome backstory while introducing a few familiar faces to the world of WandaVision.

[57] The Hollywood Reporter's Richard Newby praised Lewis and Woo's character growth since their last appearances in Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), respectively, which he felt was one of the benefits that comes from the MCU's long-form storytelling.

[59] Vulture's Abraham Riesman gave the episode 3 out of 5 stars and was disappointed to learn that the sitcom reality was being created by Maximoff, which he felt was the "easy way out with this rich and fascinating character" and was a "dull and predictable [choice], not to mention questionable on gender-stereotype grounds".

[1] Ben Travers was also critical of the episode's humor and dialogue, as well as its answers to questions that he felt the audience had already worked out, without any insight into Maximoff's character.

He felt the scene established Rambeau's state of mind for the rest of the series and also reflected WandaVision's tonal shift from sitcom homages to the "dark, stark reality".

[61] Newby believed the scene offered a new perspective on the Blip from what was seen in Far From Home, and opened up "myriad storytelling possibilities" for the MCU with a "new status quo, new agencies of power, new adversaries, and familiar supporting faces ready to emerge as more prominent heroes".

[58] Newby said having Rambeau, Lewis, and Woo serve as surrogates for the audience in the episode showed how much the MCU had changed for its human, non-superhero characters.

David highlighted Lewis's transition from discovering the WandaVision broadcast with astrophysics to watching the fictional series and becoming "every theorist on Reddit looking for the clues", as well as Woo's use of a whiteboard and pin wall to organize information which is standard for police procedurals but in this case is "recognizable as every Marvel YouTuber breaking down viewer questions".

David said this was "next-level metafiction", and compared it to a scene in the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode "Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack" which was also directed by Shakman.

[62] Pulliam-Moore said this element of the episode felt like WandaVision was "flexing", with the series "poking fun at itself, its audience, and the entire culture around superhero adaptations".