Wonder Man answers the question, what would a Marvel TV show look like if it weren’t, for the most part, about superheroes?
Andrew Guest’s eight-episode Disney+ series (January 27) is similar to HBO’s recent A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, in that it ignores its franchise’s big-picture concerns, narrowing its gaze to focus on a couple of individuals occupying a highly particular corner of its fictional universe. In this case, that locale is Hollywood and the duo is Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley), the former an aspiring actor and the latter the thespian notorious for pretending to be The Mandarin in Iron Man 3.
The result is an MCU-style industry send-up à la The Studio or The Franchise that features fewer laughs than those satires but, courtesy of its leads, a surprising amount of heart.
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