TL;DR – The show continues to draw me in with its world slowly revealing itself.

Disclosure – I paid for the Disney+ service used to view this series.

VisionQuest Review Introduction

Today we continue our dive into VisionQuest, the third and maybe final in the series of Wanda-instigated Disney+ shows. Each drops a new side of the MCU as they play in their realm of witches and monsters where miracles and tragedy go hand in hand.

So, to set the scene, we find out that when Tommy/Thomas (Ruaridh Mollica) had been held under the water too long, there was a bolt of lightning and suddenly one person became two. Two people, with two lives, and one body. But he is not crazy, because we saw what happened in Maiden Mother Crone; we know the truth, the police don’t. Well, what’s a little avoiding arrest when among friends? Now, from here, we will be looking at the episode as a whole, so there will be [SPOILERS] ahead.

Who Are You? [Who, Who, Who, Who?]

At the core of the series so far is this drive to discover who your identity is: who are you when you are an amalgamation of many other parts? In some ways, that is a very human experiment; I am sure many people wonder just who they would be if the cards had fallen differently, or if this part of their life had not happened. We are not just some tabula rasa floating around. That creates complexity, and complexity is messy. Thus, the drive of Vision (Paul Bettany) to find who he is is very relatable, and all the different programs help bring this discussion to light. You can feel the pain through Paul Bettany’s performance, trying to live up to what has gone before you while not knowing who you are. But also, he is very okay with wasting some fools; I was not ready for the PG-13 blood splatters, and I think he partly disintegrated a man.

That idea grows when you expand out to the other characters. Tommy or Thomas is a crash of two people: one poor kid about to die, and another escaping death, yeeted into this world unannounced by his brother. Who would you be with those two worlds crashing together? Are you two people fighting for the same body, or an amalgamation of two people that should be dead but are now alive together? You also get a touch of the question from Paladin (Todd Stashwick) and even Ultron (James Spader). I think that was genuine remorse over the loss of JARVIS (James D’Arcy). If nothing else, Ultron is part cat.

Recommendation

In the end, do we recommend VisionQuest? Yes, we do. This was another strong episode with a conclusion that packed a punch. An adamantium bullet name-drop punch. I hope they keep building on this complexity as the dominoes keep falling. Have you seen VisionQuest yet? Let us know what you thought in the comments below.

By Brian MacNamara: You can follow Brian on Bluesky at @Tldrmovrev, when he’s not chatting about Movies and TV, he’ll be talking about International Relations, or the Solar System.

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Credits – All images were created by the cast, crew, and production companies of VisionQuest
Directed by – Christopher J. Byrne
Written by – Terry Matalas
Created by – Terry Matalas
Based On – WandaVision and Agatha All Along by Jac Schaeffer & Marvel Comics
Production/Distribution Companies – Marvel Television & Disney+
Starring – Paul Bettany, James Spader, Ruaridh Mollica, Todd Stashwick, Lauren Morais, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Ben Crompton, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Emily Hampshire, & James D’Arcy.