Robert Darbyshire

Much to praise, but ham fisted character development (great acting, just cliched, tiresome characters) and very, very, very shoddy science has me fast forwarding through episode 2. The showrunner has a lot to answer, setting fire to a budget this big.

A beautiful piece of work. About family, regret, the frustration of a life well - and badly - lived, the young man inside every old man and Clint Eastwood looking to cap off a stellar career. The script is everyday and the cinematography unremarkable. But he’s still got it. Nice work in support from West and Cooper too.

Wanda and Vision encased in a 1950’s/ 60s sitcom is a cute idea and well executed. After 2 episodes of it though, it’s already wearing starting to wear thin. Those old shows felt extremely dated and rather sad even on repeat in the 80s. Now, they’re irrelevant to the point of being boring. The jokes are lazy and the use of the medium completely unimaginative. To an audience younger than me, it must be completely mystifying why anyone ever watched them. (Short answer - there was nothing else. It was Bewitched or vandalising a bus stop with a marker pen.) They’d better speed up the real plot - or this thing will lose viewers very fast indeed.

Subtle as a brick. And a bit dull.