Wonder Man

First and only thing I thought of

Finished tonight and hoping for an S2.

Did raise a surprised eyebrow that his former girlfriend’s acting gig was a small part on … Severance? With love expedient the show. Kudos to Disney for giving the Apple show a shoutout. Not the cross product placement I’d have expected.

Once I realized what they were doing I liked it very much. I appreciate that Marvel is using the TV shows to experiment with the superhero genre.

Well good news! Wonder Man Season 2

I’m pleasantly surprised. I loved the show, but I wasn’t very optimistic about the chances for more.

I was optimistic, given the overwhelmingly positive response.

This isn’t the 1990s Fox network, where they take a popular and beloved show and cancel it after a ratings dip because they keep screwing up the scheduling and/or promotions for it. This is Disney, where they will milk everything for all its worth (especially in the Marvel/Star Wars franchises).

I’m cautiously optimistic?

He has had his huge power up, psychologically with control over his superpower as a result. Trevor has had his growth too. Now them … on the run? As a hero and sidekick? Trying to fight the Doorman clause?

Yeah, I’m curious if they’re going to be able to continue the Hollywood parody aspect of the first season, now that both of them are, presumably, wanted terrorists.

Realistically he should be a wanted man with Slattery as everything he did was extremely obvious in retrospect and he’d be identified instantly. That would take a lot out of the show though.

I still find it a bit unsettling that Trevor Slattery’s IMDb is remarkably similar to Ben Kingsley’s.

Not so fast!

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II says the “optics” at Marvel are obvious after the studio canceled his Emmy-nominated series “Wonder Woman” after one season and failed over multiple years to bring to life the “Blade” movie it announced starring Mahershala Ali.

I must have missed his Wonder Woman show.

Typo on the writer’s part, I suspect; reading the article, it’s clear that Abdul-Mateen was referring to Wonder Man. The Wikipedia article on the series indicates that, after initially announcing a second season in March, Marvel cancelled it in July.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Man_(TV_series)#Future

Oh yeah, I know what it was about, I was mocking the article, that’s all. :smiley:

I loved Wonder Man (as I think was demonstrated in this thread) and I was stoked about the second season, and so bummed out that they canceled it. The first season was so praised that I was stunned it didn’t get a second one.

I enjoyed the program (finally finished it a few weeks ago). The Doorman episode was hilarious - and fits in to the basic theme of the whole series which is that dropping superpowers onto someone is very likely to ruin his life.

That being said, when I saw this on the Internet, I suspected that someone was watching “Wonder Man”

“back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you’d see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale”