"We are back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you feel fatigue stealing over you already, banish it! It's going to be OK. Even though Wonder Man is (by my incredulous reckoning) about the 30th MCU series produced by Marvel Television and companions from the dizzying heights of WandaVision to well, She-Hulk it is a little gem. And it is quite little, in MCU terms."
"The story is that Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who plays the DC Comics' character Black Manta in the Aquaman films) is an actor who has been trying to make it in LA for the last decade. Alas, his inability to stop overthinking a role makes him an utter pain on set and gets him fired even when he does manage to land a part."
"There he is befriended by Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley, who plays Trevor in various MCU films, a washed-up, drug-addled actor who is hired by Iron Man 3's baddie to play the Mandarin, who is the terrorist leader of the Ten Rings do keep up). Always beware befriending an actor. Trevor is the cat's paw of the Department of Damage Control, the shadowy government organisation set on protecting the public from supernatural threats with a modern prison to fill before its budget is cut."
The eight-episode Wonder Man series returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with half-hour episodes that favor storytelling over spectacle. The show follows actor Simon Williams, an LA hopeful who struggles with overthinking roles and repeatedly loses work despite talent. Simon has loved the Wonder Man character since childhood and seizes an audition opportunity, where he befriends washed-up actor Trevor Slattery. Trevor works as an operative for the Department of Damage Control, a government body that monitors supernatural threats and restricts powered individuals from working after on-set disasters. The series blends Hollywood satire, character study, and MCU continuity through intimate, low-spectacle episodes.
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