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I’m recommending Vision Quest on Disney+ as part of a trilogy that starts with WandaVision and continues through Agatha All Along. As of this recording there are four episodes out, with eight total expected. It stars Paul Bettany as Vision, James Spader as Ultron, and Emily Hampshire (Stevie from Schitt’s Creek) as Edith, alongside other actors.

(Get the artwork joke? Vision? Adjusting my glasses? My vision? Hahaha 🤖 Ultron laugh effect!)

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00:00 Welcome to Dailyish
00:14 Why Vision Quest
00:38 Cast and Setup
00:55 Standalone or MCU
01:25 AI Themes and Ultron
02:06 Visual Style and Tone
02:45 Streaming Cost Reality
03:08 Wrap Up and Links

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What is Daily(ish)?

Challenging myself to record a podcast episode a day for my 50th year on this planet.

Chris: Hello and welcome to Dailyish
for Wednesday, October 21st, 2026.

I'm recording an episode every day
for this, my 50th year on the planet

Today in Things I Love as part of
the ongoing series of things I love

that happen to just mainly be TV
shows right now, but we'll, we'll

get to other ground, I'm sure, I'm
recommending Vision Quest on Disney+.

It's part of a trilogy of sorts,
uh, starting with, uh, WandaVision,

Agatha All Along, ending
with, of course, Vision Quest.

As of this recording, it
has four episodes out.

I believe it's got four episodes
more, so eight episodes in total.

It stars Paul Bettany as Vision, James
Spader as Ultron, and most importantly

to Canadians or fans of Schitt's
Creek, Emily Hampshire, who played

Stevie on Schitt's Creek, as Edith,
and a bunch of other cool actors, too

You don't have to have seen anything
else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

to under- to enjoy the show, I guess.

Obviously, there's a certain amount
of understanding that can happen

where if you've seen all of the Marvel
movies and stuff and shows, there's a

lot of little lore that you can grab
onto and understand that's going on.

But also, I feel like it stands
on its own pretty well, as do the

WandaVision and Agatha All Along.

There's definitely things and elements
from each that kind of carry over and

help answer questions that you might
have had from the first or second series

or from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It's not like a confusing storyline
that if you haven't seen anything

else in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe, this won't make any sense.

I'm not sure when exactly it was produced,
but it's a very timely series in that

there's a lot of conversation around the
various AI bots that are working alongside

Vision, the main bot that was in, uh,
Tony Stark's armor in Iron Man and then

became his own character But whether you
know James Spader from the voice of Ultron

in past movies or from even his role on
The Office as Robert California, the sort

of sarcastic condescending father figure
kind of voice that he lend to Ultron and

Robert California for that matter, plays
off really well as Vision tries to, you

know, sort of save his world, save the
world around him without spoiling anything

And the other AI bots that are involved,
such as Edith, just play a really good

supporting role in making it a fun
series to watch It's visually stunning

in the same sense that, WandaVision
and Agatha All Along were, like really

colorful, really kind of playful.

Plays a lot with pop culture mixed
with the, um, you know, the bit of the

superhero stuff, but that's not the
really the focus of the sh- the show.

If the Marvel Cinematic Universe kind
of exhausts you with like big, you

know, battles and superheroes saying
their iconic lines and all that kind

of stuff, this is definitely not that

Aside from the fact that it is about
an AI bot synthetic, uh, robot, I

forget what they call it in the show,
it feels like a very human story

I know there's too many different
streaming platforms to keep up with,

and especially considering subscriptions
to said streaming platforms have gone

up 150, 200% over the last five years.

It's hard to keep one service, let alone
many services, uh, on your subscription

queue So I wouldn't say this is like
rush out and subscribe to Disney+ for

this show, But if you have Disney+,
then it's a great series to check out

All right, that's it for this episode.

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