Monday, August 23, 2021

On The Air: What If? (2021)

 Well, it's here.

45 years after its initial comics debut, Marvel's What If....? has bowed on Disney+, with some of the best animation for Marvel in over a decade.

If you remember the books, you know the premise. The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) serves as narrator, taking us into a moment in time where events in Marvel's history were changed. Some good, some bad.

In the opener, for example, series creator A. C. Bradley examines what would happen if Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) took the super soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers (Josh Keaton, ex-Spectacular Spider-Man, Green Lantern). Bradley Whitford (ex-The West Wing) takes over for Tommy Lee Jones as Agent Flynn. Dominic Cooper reprises as Howard Stark.

Check the season trailer:


The opener gives us Captain Carter as a mash-up of Captain America and Wonder Woman. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

Rating: A+.

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