#Review after 8 episodes#

The creativity in the MCU has always been limited by the consistency of the overall universe, and especially in the very late stories: Wandavision for example, after a few episodes with the incredible concept of replaying old sitcoms, had to return to a classical good guy vs bad guy fight, or black widow was limited by the civil war events occurring at the same time.

No such thing in What If ? : new stories can be built, new tones can be experienced, either with Party Thor or Supreme Strange, important characters can die (which creates suspense!), and the binary scheme with heroes winning against villains can be sometimes abandoned for more subtle plots.

At the opposite of most of the Netflix-style nowadays TV shows, each episodes cover a whole story, which improves the rythm: no need to wait for 2 hours of show to see a step forward in the story.

And finally, the upgrade of the story to another level with Ultron and his 5 stones is another good surprise, as the shows dare to experiment a switch from a one-plot-per-episode to a more continuous story with cliffhangers.

Obviously, the experimental aspect of the show leads to a few episodes a bit less catchy, so it's a 9 instead of a 10.