Originally, What If…?’s first season was going to run 10 episodes, but the COVID-19 pandemic meant cutting one from the production calendar to make the release date. If you were thrown by the sudden appearance of Gamora, and the situation she and Tony Stark found themselves in on Nidavellir, you weren’t alone. “Thor, but dumber and funnier” has been one of What If’s greatest successes to date.
It does, however, culminate with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) hilariously shrieking as he’s pulled into the sky in the middle of an excellent battle cry. Instead, scenes like a Dairy Queen-set attack on Ego and Shuri and Pepper storming Wakanda’s throne room to face Killmonger are just used as backdrop, which was a missed opportunity to bring those storylines to a more satisfying close. The ensuing sequence of The Watcher gathering his chosen warriors gives What If the chance to put a button on some of the loose ends it’s created. In that way, What If’s first season manages to end with both a bang and a whimper.Īfter Ultron’s (Ross Marquand) victory last week, The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) and Strange Supreme (Benedict Cumberbatch) agree that the only way to stop the robot is to, in grand Marvel fashion, assemble a team. That dynamic recurs this week, with a climactic showdown that often miscalculates when to hold back and when to let loose. It’s a set-up fraught with peril for a show that has, to this point, often let good storytelling take a backseat to the action.
But now, The Watcher is going on offense with a team of cosmic Avengers to stop the multiverse’s latest threat: Ultron. well, again, he already did that last week. After eight episodes of build-up, The Watcher finally breaks his oath this week.
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