Wonderman

Wonderman was dropped all at once, because the powers that be have no faith in the general public, and I understand that but I think that anyone with an IQ above 10 would have been fine with a week to week release. That said the show is very intriguing so far, it's done a great job of setting things up in these first two episodes.

We have been told that our main character has powers, and we have been told that he can’t control those powers. We have also only seen the vague effects of his powers and have yet to see him actually use them.

“There are so many self-tapes”...yeah my dude he’s an actor.

They are trying very hard to lock him away but they don’t have any tangible proof that he committed any crimes, they don’t even have tangible proof that he has superpowers. I think this is a unique take on how everyone else functions in the world of the MCU.

Trevor at this birthday party is incredible. What this show is doing really well is the quieter moments, it really has the actors doing the heavy lifting and I love that. Brother seems really standoffish towards Simon. He’s literally acting like Simon’s father, he’s such a tool. Simon looks really out of place as the house fills up with family and his moms friends.

He is really sticking on his agent about this Wonderman role. While Trevor tries to poke and prod the guests at this party. Trevor has clearly formed a real bond with Simon, this time he’s supposed to be spending finding out about his childhood, he is also spending defending Simon.

His brother is kind of a dick, I really hate anyone who shits on creatives for being creatives. Ya’ll wouldn’t function without us. The world would cease to exist. The dark ages were named as such for a reason. And it was because of the lack of art being produced.

Simon’s anger leads him to shatter the island (perfect use of silence and slow motion by the way).

This is a ridiculous way to use Josh Gad and I am super here for it. It took no convincing at all to get him to do this.

I love the tonal shift also, for us to all of a sudden be watching a black and white episode is incredible. This by the way is the reason people are saying that this is the best project since Wanda Vision, it's because there is a tonal difference that is unique to the project. It doesn’t resemble anything else that we’ve seen on Disney+ from the MCU.

It also saves us from an exposition dump. Simon mentioned this man that we hadn’t heard of yet, and now we get a whole episode dedicated to him. Because clearly what happened to him carries side effects for Simon.

Excellent switch back at the end. We now know why Simon works so hard to hide his superpowers and it all comes back to how much he loves being an actor. His passion for his craft is really the driver of this story and I love it because it makes it feel very raw and vulnerable. On top of that we have the fact that the show is called Wonderman because Simon is auditioning for the Wonderman movie and we are halfway through the series and he has yet to actually step into the role of Wonderman. I think holding out on the obvious pay offs is a great idea. And I love that it further divorces this character from his comic book counterpart.