It is very easy to rag on the Marvel Cinematic Universe for being an absolute shitshow these days as the comic book movies flail about, trying to salvage an ongoing storyline while Marvel pretends it isn’t putting the tracks down in real time for its Multiverse saga. There was a time when Marvel bringing together disparate elements of a shared universe felt intentional, and paid off in a big way. Those early phases leading up to Infinity War and Endgame, when we’d see a movie or two a year at most that were actively nudging a larger story along, were a pretty unifying experience for moviegoers. Now the MCU has been pulled in so many different directions, with Marvel releasing over a dozen TV shows of varying importance and soft-rebooting the Multiverse storyline to retreat into a nostalgia play with Avengers: Doomsday that has Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. returning after “retiring” from their roles in Endgame. But sometimes, there’s a fleeting moment in which Marvel harnesses years of buildup across these movies and shows to create something rewarding and emotionally fulfilling. VisionQuest is the latest project out of Marvel to come close.

The first two episodes of the latest MCU Disney+ series premiered last night, and as the third in a trilogy of shows alongside WandaVision and Agatha All Along , it naturally has ties to those (also great) series. While Marvel’s Disney+ output has been inconsistent to say the least, the Wanda and Vision trilogy has been some of the best stuff Marvel’s put out on a big or small screen.

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