Marvel's What If...? series is a wonderfully animated look at the multiverse, but the story-telling in the first couple episodes wasn't up to the standards set by the MCU. Our humble opinion is that things get better in the middle third of the first season...at least a little bit.

What If...? still has the problem that most, if not all of the episodes would never take place because of what's set up in Loki with the Time Variance Authority (unless we're supposed to understand that it doesn't exist in these other universes). That explanation doesn't feel as satisfying because telling a good story would mean we wouldn't care about the little things. Episodes 4 through 6 show us an "evil" Doctor Strange, a zombie apocalypse, and a cunning Killmonger.

What if we just ask that you listen to our podcasts and then let us know what you think about the show?

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