At New York Comic Con, Collider's Maggie Lovitt spoke to Trammell about Season 2 and the future of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, asking how far ahead he is with the show heading into Season 2. Unsurprisingly, Season 3 is already in progress to ensure the wait isn't as long as it was this time around, though there have been reports that Season 4 was also greenlit. Trammell directly confirmed that there was indeed progress being made on the next two seasons, even though an official renewal after Season 3 hasn't been announced by Marvel yet. "I don't know what I can say, and no one's stopping me, so I'm gonna say we're already working on Seasons 3 and 4 of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man," he revealed. That means this version of the wall-crawler could be sticking around for quite a while, so long as viewers keep tuning in.

Paul Bettany wants VISIONQUEST to show 'Acceptance' and 'Positive Male Energy'

BFI London Film Festival : At the 'VisionQuest' Premiere with Paul Bettany

Comic Book : How Much Ultron is in THIS Vision? w/ Ruaridh Mollica and Paul Bettany

Chris Moyles Show on Radio X : Paul Bettany & Emily Hampshire talk Marvel and VisionQuest

Movie Podcast : Paul Bettany on Reuniting with James Spader

Super Frame (Mitch Letcher) : James Spader & Terry Matalas on Ultron and Making VisionQuest

Good Morning America : Paul Bettany talks 'VisionQuest'

ETalk : Paul Bettany on Vision's Toxic Father-Son Dynamic with Ultron

VirginRadioUK : Paul Bettany's Shocking Confession

Interviewer : How is Loki different in Doomsday than he was in other films earlier?

Tom Hiddleston :

"And the reason for that is because of the end of Loki S2, which was a redemption and catharsis for this complicated character, which I have long wished for. And to the whole of the interior life of Loki and the design of the character as I saw it, that interior architecture was a yearning for purpose, a yearning for belonging. Go back to that first line in the first Avengers movie. I am Loki of Asgard. I am burdened with glorious purpose."

Everything we did in the 12 episodes of the Loki series was about breaking down what that means. What is it? What does glory mean? What does purpose mean? What does burden mean? And he's, you know, back right back in the first Thor movie which I made in 2010. He finds out he doesn't belong to Asgard. He doesn't belong to Thor. He doesn't or he feels he's completely heartbroken and his sense of identity and belonging is completely shattered. His grief is metabolized into grievance and that's what makes him the antagonist we know in the Avengers movies. But there's always this yearning for belonging and I think at the end of Loki S2 he realizes that in the words of the great Owen Wilson as Mobius sometimes purpose is more burden than glory and he decides to use his power as a god someone who's always been God, a divine being to belong to his friends and to those he loves and to allow other stories to live."*

"So, I began Doomsday in that position as someone who the character and myself as an actor playing the character had experienced a total redemption and catharsis. I begin the film from that starting point".

A rebooted Vision has been hiding from those who seek to weaponize him. While laying low he consults the AI personas embedded in his programming to find his true meaning. This quiet life ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run.

Feel free to add any other reviews you find in the comments.

Rotten Tomatoes: 87%

Metacritic: 58 / 100

Some Reviews:

Seattle Times - Dominic Baez

It’s about the bonds between fathers and sons, about what a family can be, about who we are at our core. Put simply, Vision may be made of vibranium and computer chips, but, for better or worse, he’s just as human as the rest of us.

Polygon - Jake Kleinman

Ultimately, despite some filler and a few rare missteps along the way, VisionQuest feels like the rare Marvel streaming show that works better as a series than a movie. You need its episodic nature to tell a story on the scale Matalas has envisioned. And you need an actor like Bettany to pull it off. In that sense, VisionQuest is a resounding success. In another world, it might have been just one link in a chain of successful Marvel shows. In this one, it's a triumphant sendoff to a grand streaming experiment that ultimately failed. Either way, it's great television.

CBR - Joshua M. Patton - 10 / 10

No television show or film is ever truly "perfect," but VisionQuest is as close as any of them could dare to get. It's not just excellent "for a Marvel show," it is easily earns a "Prestige TV" label. Only for all it's deeply tragic moments that examine the power of grief and regret, it does the other comic book stories do best. It gives the audience hope, and viewer will feel happier for having watched it. While it does feature deep and difficult emotional experiences, it proves that great art can also be found in tales of love, happiness, optimism, and heroism. VisionQuest is the MCU at its best, and it is the perfect sendoff for what this universe could achieve before Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars change everything.

The Daily Beast - Nick Schager

VisionQuest doesn’t boast a foundational hook as intriguing as WandaVision’s sitcom fantasy, and it rarely tries to duplicate that which worked so well for its precursor. It’s a series that’s tethered to the past and yet strives to be its own unique thing, and if it sometimes gets lost on the way to self-actualization, that’s in line with a hero who, by definition, is forever torn between two (metal and flesh) worlds. Unity, of course, is tough to come by in a franchise as sprawling as this. With Spader as its electric engine, though, Matalas’ show proves a relatively cohesive and compelling cog in the MCU machine.

Nexus Point News - Demet Koc - 5 / 5

VisionQuest is a story about finding yourself when the past no longer provides all the answers. Vision’s journey may be rooted in artificial intelligence, but the questions he faces are universal: who are we beyond our memories, what gives our lives meaning, and how do we define ourselves when everything familiar has changed? And for the Maximoff family, the journey is far from over. There are still wounds to heal, relationships to explore, and pieces of a complicated family history waiting to fall into place. VisionQuest gives this story a meaningful new direction and proves that there is still plenty left to explore with the Maximoffs. “A family is forever.”

FilmSpeak - Tom Chatalbash - 'A'

After ‘Avengers: Endgame’, Marvel has suffered from a notable inconsistency in quality and storytelling, an issue that has shaken the faith in a fair amount of their most loyal, passionate fans. However, if ‘VisionQuest’ makes anything clear as day, it’s that when you put these beloved characters in capable and creative hands, truly anything is possible. Not only is this series one of their most satisfying to date, but it’s one Marvel’s finest hours full stop.

ScreenRant - Ben Gibbons - 9 / 10

The biggest grievance that I have now is anxiously awaiting to see what is next for these characters, and where in the MCU they could show up. Such is the way of shows that exist in a larger franchise, but with VisionQuest in particular, I think there is a spark of creativity that takes this series far beyond what most other MCU projects have managed to achieve. With that in mind, please bring Terry Matalas back to helm more MCU stories.

FandomWire - Callie Hanna - 9 / 10

VisionQuest brings the WandaVision trilogy to a satisfying conclusion with a strong mystery, emotionally resonant themes, and spectacular character work for Paul Bettany's Vision and James Spader's Ultron.

RogerEbert - Sherin Nicole

“VisionQuest” does many things, but it’s never boring. Fans of the franchise are being rewarded. This is what happens when the MCU takes its time developing a series, and it’s a fitting finale to what “WandaVision” jump-started. 

MovieWeb - Molly Freeman - 4.5 / 5

Five years after Marvel Studios launched the official TV side of the MCU, there have only been a handful of truly great television series produced for Disney+. WandaVision, Loki and Agatha All Along all managed to master telling a longer-form MCU story over the course of 8+ episodes, exploring real human themes and mixing them with superhero spectacle. Now, VisionQuest joins their ranks, taking a more sci-fi route to the same ends. It rewards longtime Marvel viewers by exploring new facets of known characters and introducing new heroes who are sure to play a major role in the MCU going forward—and it's just good television. I couldn't ask for more from a Marvel TV show.

TechRadar - Tom Power - 4 / 5

VisionQuest is a terrifically assembled, genre-bending conclusion to the Wanda/Vision TV trilogy. Equally enjoyable as a standalone tale as it is as part of a larger saga, it delivers an emotionally rich examination about what it means to be human — all wrapped up in a mind-melting, expectation-subverting package that's full of gusto, poise, and visual flair.

FlickDirect - Allison Rose - 4 / 5

The best part about VisionQuest is the cast. Bettany has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008, first voicing J.A.R.V.I.S. before physically portraying Vision beginning in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, and it is impossible to imagine anyone else playing this character. As the series begins, Bettany is somewhat robotic, as is intended for the character, but by episode eight, we get the Vision we all know and love, the one with emotions who cares for humanity as if he really is human. Spader, however, steals the first four episodes because he not only has the funniest lines of anyone, but he also delivers them with the perfect tonal quality. He also plays the bad guy well, as he has with past characters, and he gives Ultron some complexity audiences might not expect from the Marvel villain. Hampshire, Brady, and D'Arcy are all terrific as supporting cast members, with Lewis and Sayer perhaps being the weakest links. Ruaridh Mollica (Witness Number 3) is also very good portraying Wanda and Vision's son.

Collider - Taylor Gates - 8 / 10

Between the record-breaking Spider-Man: Brand New Day and well-received seasons of Wonder Man and Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel’s track record this year has been promising, and VisionQuest proves to be yet another win for the studio. Between a rich, immersive world, bold, smart writing, and excellent performances from returning favorites and up-and-coming talent alike, VisionQuest is firing on all cylinders as both a fulfilling conclusion to the WandaVision saga and an exciting new beginning for the MCU.

The HoloFiles - George & Josh Bate - 8 / 10

Inventive, ontologically inquisitive, visually striking, and emotionally powerful, VisionQuest resoundingly dispels cynics’ claims that comic book and superhero stories are just spectacle and little else. Fitting given its status as a sequel to WandaVision, the series possesses the same abstract, surreal visuals and storytelling structure as its predecessor, embracing expansive, eloquent, and thought-provoking conversations about the nature of existence, the distance between memories and emotions, and what it means to be human. With a unique visual identity, a stroke-of-genius representation of Vision’s mind, and deeply moving sequences about the nature of fatherhood and the importance of family, VisionQuest makes for a series that is as visually impressive as it is refreshing. Paul Bettany has never been better as Vision, making extraordinary use of his far more prominent role, while James Spader’s Ultron emerges as one of the most compelling and nuanced antagonists in MCU history.

The Wrap - Hunter Ingram

“VisionQuest” is fun, which doesn’t sound as effusive as it could be. But after years of illegible Marvel films and series, that is the highest compliment. It’s well crafted, even if it’s saddled with one or 20 too many metaphors. Its heartfelt emotion is well earned, and feels cut from the same cloth of empathetic storytelling as its fellow trilogy mates. For a series that could be as banal as the ones and zeros that power it, “VisionQuest” is among the more humane and hopeful things Marvel has produced, and gives the “Wandavision” trilogy a sendoff as solid as the vibranium build of its hero.

Inverse - Ryan Britt

VisionQuest is not a bad show, and in some ways, it's more cohesive and clear-headed with its narrative goals than Agatha All Along. In fact, it even makes more science-fictional sense than WandaVision. Here, everything has an answer, and everything can be explained. But that doesn’t mean the show has the magic of WandaVision. It wasn’t supposed to, and it needn’t have tried, but, on some level, that magic feels missing all the same.

Consequence - Liz Shannon Miller - 'B'

This is, to be clear, what many critics said should happen: Decrease the bloat, let new Marvel stories start feeling special again. But this does mark the end, at least for a short time, of the MCU enjoying the occasional side quest. Maybe there’s some grieving to be done for what’s now over, but as we all learned from WandaVision: What is love, if not grief persevering? It’s a message repeated more than once during VisionQuest — a fitting conclusion for these characters, and an entertaining reminder of the high points of this era.

GamesRadar - Jordan Farley - 3.5 / 5

VisionQuest does have a less contentious relationship with traditional superhero action than WandaVision – a show which infamously dropped the ball in its finale by prioritizing empty spectacle over a carefully mounting mystery. When Vision goes full phasing, laser-shooting synthezoid, easily dispatching a room full of armed heavies in the blink of an eye, it's thrilling. But, maddeningly, as he was in Infinity War, Vision is again critically compromised early in the series thanks to the sudden development of vibranium bullets (you'd think MCU bad guys would have thought to use them before now). As a way to put Vision on the back foot, it's a frustrating decision. Like Vision himself, then, VisionQuest is a flawed creation: often brilliant, but riddled with imperfections and contradictions. As the final MCU project to hit screens before Marvel mega-event Avengers: Doomsday, it's also a little surprising how disconnected from the wider MCU story VisionQuest feels, with no sense that any of this will one day feed into the bigger picture. Instead, it serves as the end for a certain era of MCU TV, and it that sense it's a worthy final chapter.

SlashFilm - Jeremy Mathai - 7 / 10

Like its title character, "VisionQuest" understands inevitability. People die, love leads to grief, and mistakes can't be undone. But maybe we can create something beautiful nevertheless — flawed, yes, but worthwhile.

IGN - Jesse Schedeen - 7 / 10 (first 2 episodes)

VisionQuest is a show that should probably have arrived a lot sooner than it did, but at least Marvel has finally opted to pick up one of the biggest loose threads from WandaVision. The series definitely faces an uphill battle in getting fans to connect with this rebooted, compassion-free version of the character. Luckily, it makes some tangible progress by the end of Episode 2. It also has a strong supporting cast to fall back upon when the main protagonist falters, the standout of which is easily James Spader’s Ultron. If not a flawless start for the series, these first two episodes serve as a solid blueprint for Vision’s journey to come.

The Hollywood Reporter - Angie Han

Collectively, it amounts to an inordinate amount of the season’s eight hours being spent on people just … explaining things. Occasionally, VisionQuest does this in a clever way, as with an inventive late sequence that borrows from WandaVision‘s sitcom language. But too often, it just means characters sitting around recounting their origin stories, having their origin stories recounted to them, reflecting on what their origin stories mean to each other. Sometimes, for a change of pace, they detour into languorous flashbacks, or literally just watch clips of WandaVision.

The Telegraph - Ed Power - 3 / 5

The small-screen Marvel universe hasn’t been uniformly terrible. But quality control went through the floor the more Disney tried to flog this exhausted nag for all it was worth. In that context, VisionQuest is an unexpected 90th-minute comeback. It isn’t uniformly atrocious, and is significantly better than the worst of the Marvel shows, most of which have vanished down a collective memory hole never to be thought of again.

Variety - Alison Herman

“WandaVision” was the first Marvel Studios show to air on Disney+, and with its shapeshifting sitcom homage as an allegory for grief, that series has remained a high bar to beat amid the MCU’s oversaturation era. This remains the case for the direct sequel. “VisionQuest” rehashes many of the same themes about recovering from loss — there is, of course, a flashback to the famous line about love persevering — with a hero who is, by definition, much less accessible. (And given AI’s alarming trajectory toward mass job replacement and/or civilizational destruction, I didn’t feel especially inclined to empathize with a bunch of digital entities.) “VisionQuest” can be enjoyable in its comfort zone of zanily tweaking the Mindspace. But when it’s time to venture out into the tactile world, the show doesn’t leave a lasting mark.

IndieWire - Ben Travers - 'C'

For all its bells and whistles (mainly dense exposition, shiny production design, and an action scene here and there), “VisionQuest” isn’t complicated or unique. It’s a bad-dad drama about a guy who’s reluctant to accept his own burdens. Sure, he’s grieving, and yeah, he’s a robot, but head writer Terry Matalas (and the Disney engine writ large) doesn’t want you thinking too hard about a show that stumbled into topicality. (Should we really care whether an artificial intelligence system believes its human? And if so, should we want to reach the same conclusion “VisonQuest” encourages?) The goal here is to make sure Vision — the one true Vision — is ready for anyone who expects to see all the Avengers in the next “Avengers.” So is “VisionQuest” the sort of homework Kevin Feige wants to avoid as the MCU moves forward? Yes, except I always had a problem with that assessment of the Disney+ era’s failures. Homework tends to be important, and anyone who skipped their streaming assignments didn’t get dinged at the movies. They just saved themselves some time — and a lot of talking.

Rolling Stone - David Fear

What starts out strong isn’t guaranteed to end strong, and even when VisionQuest drops in a direct callback to WandaVision‘s meta-television format, it feels like too little, too late. The show presents as both a Marvel team-up and a tie-up to a supporting superhero’s storyline, building off the good will of its predecessors. Then it drops the masks and reveals that this is just more MCU business as usual, a lot of apocalyptic sound and fury ultimately signifying next to nada. The in-progress “phase” that counts this series as part of a bigger serialized narrative is about to rev up in December with the release of Avengers: Doomsday. You get the sense that, despite the reliance on past stories and plot points and fan service, this deep-dive into a synthezoid’s psyche is just a placeholder attached to nothing in particular. That it can’t seem to stand on its own two robotic feet or say anything about current AI anxiety is even more disappointing. Vision may provide half the title, yet actual vision is the one thing this series sorely needs.

Jeremy Renner :

“No, no, no, no. Not in that one. Doomsday I'm not in, so the Avengers will probably lose, just so you know… they didn't call me so it's their fault they're going to lose."

Episode 1 - No Strings - October 13

Episode 2 - Theseus - October 13

Episode 3 - Reboot - October 20

Episode 4 - Malware - October 20

Episode 5 - Firewall - October 27

Episode 6 - Deadlock - October 27

Episode 7 - Immolation - November 3

Episode 8 - Forever - November 10

Instagram Version

Alongside the release of International Release Poster (Korean) for Doomsday, Marvel has posted new TV spots on YouTube and Instagram, the playlist reflects unreleased videos/shorts raising the possibility of new spots releasing soon.