Review: 'VisionQuest' explores themes of love and loss, though it's more intellectual than emotional

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Set us as preferred Regular readers of this space will know that I don’t pay much attention to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or the comic books that inspire it, there being way too much to remember, especially since they keep rebooting the timeline and redesigning characters, canonically, except as is necessary to review Marvel’s television shows, which I greet with anticipation and watch with approval.Where the movies are big, loud, overpopulated machines, the TV series are full of interesting ideas, weird notions and good comedy and give their characters room to breathe.IP cross-references aside, they can stand on their own.

They don’t always last long, even some of the best of them — that’s show business, now more than ever — but you can be more or less sure that another will come along soon enough.Premiering Wednesday on Disney+, “VisionQuest” is a sequel to “WandaVision,” the first of these shows — it began the MCU’s Phase Four, if those words mean anything to you.It’s not a bad idea to familiarize yourself with the former show to take the full measure of this one; there are also some elements of the spun off “Agatha All Along,” which I had forgotten completely.

It might answer some questions you’ll have during “VisionQuest,” but the dramatic intentions and character relations are plain enough.Television ‘VisionQuest’ concludes Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’ trilogy.

Here’s everything you need to know before checking out the new MCU series.As a story of artificial intelligence, “VisionQuest” has some currency, though past the idea that these systems can work for good or bad, it’s not really about that — nobody is talking about guardrails here, which in this genre would just be a case of closing the pen after the electric sheep have got out.The androids, or synthezoids, here are presented for the most part in human form, which is easier on the eyes, the bud...