Marvel Studios has delivered some great trilogies over the course of the MCU's run. The Iron Man trilogy remains a collection of three great standalone movies that kickstarted the franchise's long-term success while that original Captain America trilogy was, in many ways, the crown jewel of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Infinity Saga. While the Multiverse Saga has struggled to match those heights in the film department, it has delivered what might be the franchise's best ever trilogy - and it pulled it off on television.
What started with the Emmy Award-winning WandaVision - starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany - continued across two further spinoffs / sequels Agatha All Along and VisionQuest, which also received adoration from fans and critics. With the latter of those wrapping up, let's take this opportunity to reflect on the WandaVision Trilogy and see if we can deduce which project is the best of a perfect trio.
3. VisionQuest
The third and final installment of the trilogy, VisionQuest has been the most complex of the bunch when it comes to general storytelling. Less reliant on a central mystery than its predecessors, it centers on the White Vision as he attempts to find a way to reconcile his emotionless feelings with the archive of memories he has from the original Vision. That journey brings him back to Ultron (with James Spader reprising his Avengers: Age of Ultron role in person) and towards his son, Tommy Maximoff, who has been mysteriously reincarnated in the form of Thomas Shepard.
Although we know the core elements of VisionQuest going into it, the series still finds ways to surprise us. A fascinating look at the inner workings of Marvel's favorite synthezoid that even allows the franchise to revisit some of the fan-favorite AI characters from the MCU's past, it's a stylistic and aesthetic wonder. But, below the surface, it's another complex look at the aftermath of grief and accepting oneself, flaws and all. Although it does get bogged down a little in the middle of its run, it hits the ground running and brings it all together in an incredibly satisfying way.
Paul Bettany's performance - particularly in episode 7 - is among the MCU's all-time best, while Ruaridh Mollica makes a real impression in his debut as Tommy Maximoff. Surprising to no one, James Spader steals every scene that he is in, once again highlighting why he's one of his generation's most captivating actors.
2. Agatha All Along
The Witches' Road came to life in extremely vivid fashion when Agatha All Along arrived on Disney Plus in 2024. To call the show a surprise would be an understatement. While Kathryn Hahn's Agatha Harkness was a show-stealer in WandaVision, there was something of a repetitive question doing the rounds ahead of the spinoff's release: Do we really need an Agatha show? The series very quickly proved that the answer to that question was: Yes. Yes, we do.
Agatha All Along is as gripping as it is funny, as integral as it is bewitching. Deceptively important in everything that it does, the spinoff sees Agatha recruited by a mysterious teenager who ultimately turns out to be the son of the Scarlet Witch, Billy Maximoff, as the pair - along with their star-studded coven - head down the magical Witches' Road in the hopes of obtaining what their heart desires the most. That journey leads to innovative, daunting trials that test them along the way.
The truth is that Agatha All Along is nothing short of magic. A rare example of how the franchise's Disney Plus shows could master the television format, its episodic nature allowed it to lean into the craziness of each and every trial, adding to its overarching mystery and laying the ground work for a twist that rivalled that of the original "Agatha All Along" reveal in WandaVision. That, along with Hahn's career-defining performance at the heart of it, ensures that Agatha is one of Marvel's finest titles in the entire Multiverse Saga.
1. WandaVision
Back to where it all began for this trilogy, WandaVision had a lot on its shoulders. It had to successfully convey Wanda Maximoff's grief in the aftermath of losing Vision while also setting the stage for the Multiverse Saga's storylines; it was the first chapter in this trilogy, yes, but it was also the first MCU Disney Plus TV series and the first title in the Multiverse Saga itself. To say it pulled all of that off would be an understatement.
Set in an idyllic sitcom starring Wanda and Vision, WandaVision is charming and endearing on the surface while also harboring an uneasiness that alludes to something much deeper below the surface. That deepness is ultimately a surprisingly nuanced exploration of grief and the lengths that someone will go to for those that they love. When Vision told Wanda in a flashback "What is love if not grief persevering", the show shattered glass ceilings for its genre, proving that the superhero genre - and the MCU - was capable of complex, emotional brilliance. And it continued to do that again and again throughout its run.
From its commitment to each of its sitcom inspirations to Elizabeth Olsen's captivating performance as the Scarlet Witch, WandaVision is magnificence in every way imaginable. And, over half a decade on, it remains the Multiverse Saga's greatest accomplishment.
It might just be the MCU's finest project of all, too. But that's a conversation for another day.
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