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By Tom Jorgensen
Updated: Sep 8, 2021 2:15 pm
Posted: Sep 8, 2021 11:57 am
Spoilers follow for Episode 5 of Marvel’s What If…? For more, see our review of the previous episode of What If.
When you stream Marvel’s What If…? on Disney+’s website, you’ll notice episodes have titles like “What If… Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?” and “What If… Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?” This week’s is simply: “What If... Zombies!?” Sure, it’s a jokey take on the naming convention the series has been using, but it’s also indicative of how much thought went into selling a zombie apocalypse that works in the MCU. Up to this point, What If has done pretty well at making each episode’s premise feel like a logical divergence from established history. But despite some entertaining action, Episode 5 shambles along, aimless and hungry for purpose as… as a… it’ll come to me...
Episode 5’s deficiencies come into clear focus when compared to last week’s best-yet episode. It was full of supernatural spectacle, but everything that happened was rooted in Doctor Strange’s struggle with his grief, so it was emotionally engaging. On the other hand, we’ve got this episode, which spends nearly all its time focused on moving the surviving heroes from zombie encounter to zombie encounter as they try to develop a cure. Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) explains the zombie outbreak started after Hank Pym’s trip to the Quantum Realm, where only Hope’s mother Janet Van Dyne returned. Janet was afflicted with a “quantum virus” which… turns everyone into zombies. Marvel’s already joked about sticking “quantum” in front of concepts that they don’t want to bother explaining in Ant-Man and The Wasp (Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania coming soon), and we’re far enough past the point of diminishing returns that unexplained “quantum” stuff just feels like lazy writing. It often feels like What If can’t decide whether or not to take the zombie apocalypse seriously or play it for laughs, and Episode 5 suffers from that lack of clarity.
The episode’s best moments come during a tense confrontation with Vision (Paul Bettany) at Camp Lehigh. It’s here that we get a sense of what a more focused, character-driven story could’ve delivered, as the usually-benevolent android has become corrupted by the zombie outbreak in his own way. His desire to cure the infected Wanda and his total dis...
If all you’re looking for out of What If? Episode 5 is hero-on-zombie-hero action, you won’t be disappointed. But if the “Why Then?” is as important as the “What If?” to you, this week’s story will feel distractingly thin. What If’s strongest moments have come from seeing how familiar characters operate in and change because of wildly different cir...
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mediocre
What If’s fifth episode is too busy with mindless action to tell an interesting zombie story in the MCU.
Tom Jorgensen
IGN reviews the fifth episode of Marvel's What If...? series, which imagines a zombie apocalypse in the MCU. The episode suffers from tonal inconsistency, lazy writing, and questionable character choices, but has some entertaining action scenes.
Feb 10, 2023 · A thrilling and distressing episode of HBO's The Last of Us, featuring fugitive brothers Henry and Sam and a shocking ending. Read the full review of episode 5, which adapts the Kansas City section of the game and adds some new twists and details.
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Feb 10, 2023 · A review of the fifth episode of The Last of Us, the HBO adaptation of the video game. The episode follows Joel and Ellie as they face a new threat from a group of FEDRA survivors in Kansas City, where they meet Henry, a former collaborator who reveals his past and his plan to join them. The review explores the themes of morality, loyalty, and survival in the post-apocalyptic world.
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