VisionQuest Is a Bittersweet Farewell to an Era of Marvel TV: Review

It’s been eight years since the character of Vision (Paul Bettany) was tragically sacrificed during the events of Avengers: Infinity War, and five years since he was (kinda sorta) resurrected by Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) during the events of WandaVision. That’s a fair bit of time passing, so it should come as no shock to reveal that the first episode of VisionQuest, the new Disney+ MCU series featuring Bettany’s return to playing the robotic creation, opens with a recap of Vision’s story that’s over two minutes long. Once we’re up on the basics, we reconnect with the resurrected Vision, who’s living under the radar in Scotland, working at a pub and trying his best to process his past experiences. (Like that computer pun? The show’s got approximately two terabytes more waiting for you.) Vision has all these memories of being in love and having a family, you see, but can’t connect with the actual feelings he knows should be associated with them. In short: He’s trying to remember what it’s like to be human. He’s not alone in this quest, as he’s accumulated a number of AIs running as subroutines inside his expansive mind palace, all of whom have familiar names and are anthropomo...