Wonder Man: Disney+ Continues to Make This Big Error With MCU Shows

The recent release of Wonder Man highlights Disney+’s biggest mistake with certain MCU shows.

All eight episodes of Marvel Television’s Wonder Man are now available to stream on Disney+. Created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest, the series stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen as Simon Williams/Wonder Man, while Ben Kingsley also reprises his MCU role as Trevor Slattery.

The synopsis reads, “Aspiring Hollywood actor Simon Williams is struggling to get his career off the ground. During a chance meeting with Trevor Slattery, an actor whose biggest roles may be well behind him, Simon learns legendary director Von Kovak is remaking the superhero film Wonder Man. These two actors at opposite ends of their careers doggedly pursue life-changing roles in this film as audiences get a peek behind the curtain of the entertainment industry.”

What is the big mistake Disney+ made with Wonder Man?

Rather than releasing Wonder Man on a weekly basis, Disney+ decided to release all episodes of Wonder Man at the same time. While this might appease fans who were already planning to binge the show in one sitting, it doesn’t allow the show to build as much word-of-mouth as it could have had the episodes been staggered out.

WandaVision, for example, was a show that a lot of people were skeptical about, as Wanda and Vision are perhaps not the most popular or beloved characters to exist within the MCU, at least before the show came out. Similar to Wonder Man, WandaVision doesn’t have a lot of superhero antics, either, until you get into the final couple of episodes — most of WandaVision is just a riff on sitcoms with a greater underlying mystery afoot.

Yet, releasing episodes of that show weekly really created some buzz, to the point where nearly everyone was watching it and tuning in every week by the time it was only halfway done. In releasing Wonder Man all at once, Marvel forgoes the opportunity to do this again.

They’ve done this before, too. Echo was released all at once, and hardly anybody even remembers that show anymore. Same for Ironheart (which, technically, was released in two batches, but it was over the course of one week) and Eyes of Wakanda. Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 and Agatha All Along, meanwhile, got weekly releases.

How Marvel Studios decides which shows get weekly releases and which ones don’t is unclear — is it a lack of confidence in the project? Name recognition? Something else? We don’t know. But, given how good Wonder Man is, the fact remains that they had the opportunity to really build some hype with this show had they allowed audiences to discover it over the course of two months. Now, however, everyone will have likely moved on and be talking about whatever the next big thing is come February.

Click here to stream Wonder Man on Disney+.

Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net