Eight Hours to Identify a Vision: IndieWire's Case Against VisionQuest

Marvel's VisionQuest gives Paul Bettany's AI-powered synthetic super-being an existential crisis when his missing son reemerges. IndieWire's review is unimpressed for a specific reason: the series dedicates eight hours to identifying its Vision and still struggles to justify its existence. That's a sharp way to describe a familiar problem. A character asking 'who am I?' can carry a film; stretched across a season, the question starts to sound like stalling. The review calls it 'another Marvel series,' which does the rest of the work—this isn't just one android's identity crisis, but a question of how many hours a franchise can spend on a question before the answer feels overdue.