Simpson said, “As with the comics, each episode takes
heroes we already know and places them in a new situation and, as in previous
seasons, the characters are (mostly) voiced by the actors that play them in the
live action movies and series, too.” That means when Captain America is there,
it’s actually Anthony Mackie voicing him, and same with The Winter Soldier
(Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Binary
(Teyonah Parris), Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), Moon Knight (Oscar Isaac), Nick Fury
(Samuel L. Jackson), and even Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg). Each story is narrated
and looked over by The Watcher, voiced by Jeffrey Wright, an all-seeing cosmic
being.
Simpson said, “In the episodes Disney+ provided for
review, we see a future team of Avengers fighting a kaiju version of The Hulk
in giant robots that form together like Voltron or the Power Rangers’ Zords.”
In another, we see Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) as she stars in a 1940s
musical along with the Eternal Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani), all as a trick to cast a
spell. In another episode, Red Guardian and The Winter Soldier go on a buddy
journey and, in the third, newlyweds Howard the Duck (Seth Green) and Darcy
(Kat Dennings) go on an intergalactic cruise and end up pursued by different
bad guy groups from the first three phases.
Simpson noted, “As with previous seasons of the
show–and with any anthology series–your milage with each episode may vary. In
these particular episodes a connecting plot has yet to emerge, but this critic
holds that as a good thing. These stories are at their most fun when they are a
one-off, both self-contained and weird. In fact, if there is a complaint to be
made about the show, it’s that it often doesn’t get weird enough, although
episode four makes up for this a little bit by going completely overboard (in a
good way).”
Another small complaint is that some of this season’s
episodes may be a little unapproachable to the more casual fans of the
franchise. One, particularly, has a prologue that is several minutes of Jeffrey
Wright elaborating a whole new universe before anyone else even has a chance to
speak, which is a lot when each episode is less than half-an-hour long. Still,
for those in the audience who are fans of the MCU lore, this series may well
end up tricking like it was made specifically for them, showing them versions
of characters, they’ve wanted to see, in styles and tones they’ve wanted to see
Marvel try.
Simpson said, “It’s hard to ignore that there is a
real sense among audiences of both Marvel Fatigue and multiverse fatigue. While
this series is not likely to fix the former for anyone, the series is exactly
the kind of thing that makes multiversal storytelling so potentially fun.”
The end result here is that if you have liked “What If…?”
up to now, you will definitely continue to do so. If you are a fan of the Marvel
Cinematic Universe, nothing here will turn you away and you might even hope to
see some of the versions of these characters again. If you’re not already a
fan, this series may not be the best entry one, but luckily there’s something
to love for all of us who are.
For the final season of “What If…?”, I think this is
another good one. If you have been a fan of the series so far, check this one
out on Disney+. You will love it, especially since this is an easy watch. Every
episode falls under the half-hour mark, so you can watch this no problem at
all. You got to love the different scenarios the characters are put into. Check
it out and enjoy yourselves.
Tomorrow I will be looking at another “Star Wars” show
in “Disney Month 2025.”
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