Rotten Tomatoes: 85% - 7.3/10 based on 33 Reviews

Metacritic: 47 based on 5 reviews

Roger Ebert - Sherin Nicole

In “VisionQuest,” Identities Might Change, but Family Is Forever. “VisionQuest” is charmingly enthralling with just enough interplay between light and darkness to make us feel it. One of the smartest things the creatives behind the series do parallels something the great horror writer Junji Ito does so well: they utilize our understanding of everyday objects, scenarios, and relationships to ground the fantastical in the relatable. Whether it’s sadness, science, sanity, second chances, or a good giggle, its sense of connection allows “VisionQuest” to stick the landing.

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.

Variety - Alison Herman

Like its hero, Marvel’s ‘VisionQuest’ struggles to connect emotionally. It 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

Vision may provide half the title, yet actual vision is the one thing this series sorely needs. ‘VisionQuest’ Is a Show Only a Bot Could Love.

Polygon - Jake Kleinmann

VisionQuest is the brilliant sendoff that Marvel's streaming era deserves. 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.

Nerdist - Eric Diaz

Ultimately, we think VisionQuest has not only been worth the wait, but also completed the best trilogy of the MCU.

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.

IGN - Jesse Schedeen - 7/10

VisionQuest may struggle a bit to reestablish the titular hero in this post-WandaVision MCU, but at least the series has James Spader’s Ultron to fall back upon.

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.

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. Bettany and Spader are quite clearly the only ones having fun here – Morgan certainly isn’t – and their scenes together crackle with bromantic chemistry.

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.

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.

Comicbookmovie.com - Josh Wilding - 5/5

Paul Bettany and James Spader are masterful in VisionQuest, a staggering achievement by Marvel Studios and Terry Matalas that understands its characters, does right by them, and delivers one of the best MCU stories ever told.

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.”

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.

Zach Pope - 4.5/5

A PERFECT sequel to WandaVision, embracing the trippy, eccentric, and downright WILD scifi storytelling that this MCU series needed!

Beyond the Trailer - Grace Randolph

The other side of WandaVision, which not only builds on that fan-favorite show beautifully but also becomes its own thing. Bettany, Spader & Mollica are particularly good, as is showrunner Matalas' metaphor for AI & technology.

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.

San Francisco Chronicles - Bob Strauss

James Spader’s Ultron steals the show in a lore-heavy sequel. This is one quest that should leave you satisfied, even if you still don’t know half of what it went on about.

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.

Nerdspin - Michael Sowell - B+

'VisionQuest' is Marvel at its most human, grief, fatherhood, and what it means to feel again. Paul Bettany and James Spader's chemistry is ICONIC and the beating backbone of this entire series. Marvel’s most intellectual series yet.

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.

The Hard Pass - Mike Ryan - B+

VisionQuest is being billed as a sort of sequel to WandaVision … And that's kind of, sort of true. But it's truer purpose and reason for existence seems to lie much closer to, "let James Spader cook."

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.

CineXpress - Fico Cangiano - 4.5/5

You had me at Ultron. A top-tier Marvel Studios live-action series. With a little bit of Inside Out mixed with The Matrix and Inception, VisionQuest is wacky, energetic, funny and full of heart. An MCU must-watch.

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.

Hello r/marvelstudios

I'm James Spader, and I'm joined by Terry Matalas, Showrunner and Executive Producer of Marvel Television's VisionQuest.

The series picks up Vision's story as he searches for answers about who he is and where he belongs after the events of WandaVision. You can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSVTAUKyrL8

We're excited to talk about making the show, revisiting these characters, crafting a new chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and whatever else is on your mind.

We'll start answering questions at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST, Monday 12 October. 

Let's do this.

Thanks all!