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WONDER MAN SERIES REVIEW
If you’ve been out of the MCU for a few, Marvel’s Wonder Man arrives on Disney+ as not only one of the MCU’s most self-aware projects to date but as a perfect re-entry point that doesn’t require you watching or even knowing anything that took place after Avengers: Endgame. An industry satire wrapped inside a superhero origin story, the series follows Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a struggling Los Angeles actor who unexpectedly finds himself pulled into a world of superpowers, celebrity, and corporate heroism. As auditions turn into alter-egos and fame becomes its own battlefield, the show blends Hollywood comedy with MCU spectacle while exploring what it means to “perform” both on-screen and in real life. As Simon navigates auditions, fame, and the current state of public sentiment regarding super-powered individuals, he is befriended by Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley), the once and future Mandarin, who has returned to Hollywood in the hopes of reigniting his post-terrorist career. The series carves out a unique space in the post-Endgame MCU, as being more grounded, character-driven, and sharply aware of the machinery behind hero-making. Chris Ayres, Mindy, and T.C. step into the One Of Us casting room to talk ambition, visibility, and possibly which characters they will be playing in future MCU projects… if they nail the auditions.
CREATED BY: Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest
STARRING: Yahya Abdul-Meteen II, X Mayo, Zlatko Burić, Ben Kingsley, Arian Moayed, Joe Pantoliano, Byron Bowers, Josh Gad, Ashley Greene, Béchir Sylvain, Olivia Thirlby, Phumzile Sitole, Jon A. Abrahams, Dane Larsen, Shola Adewusi, Demetrius Grosse, Dan Donohue, Charlotte Ross, Mario Lopez, Joseph D. Reitman, Brandon Wardell, Carlito Olivero, Bradley Tejeda, Alex Polcyn, Carlos Leal, Simon Templeman, Juliette Ortega, Lauren Weedman, Blake Robbins, Torrey Vogel
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Christopher Ayres (Screener Squad)
Born and raised in the suburbs of Hinsdale, Illinois, Chris Ayres would constantly watch movies as a child, and that obsession has only grown over time, even attending Columbia Film School in Chicago during his last couple years of college. Whenever he’s not working his exhausting day job, he’s either watching as many movies as he can squeeze into his free time (preferably movies he’s never seen before due to a never-ending desire to expand his knowledge of the art form), or trying to turn people on to movies they haven’t seen that he thinks are worth their attention. You can find him on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram and Letterboxd (look for AyresForce or AyresForceOne)
Mindy Rast-Keenan (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)
Having grown up in Nairobi, Kenya, and being very disappointed at the lack of riding elephants her cartoons had promised her, Mindy spends the majority of her time as a film, theater, and voice over actress in the Austin, Texas area. They still give her money for being on HBO that one time, with her name in the credits spelled wrong. A nerdy geek, this award-winning actress joined One of Us figuring she’d put her summa cum laude BFA acting degree to good use…by judging other people’s acting. In the few seconds she gets to herself, Mindy bakes for charity, knits eccentric plushies, plays original RPG’s with her gamemaster husband, and spends time with her soulmate, Batman.
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