The season finale of Marvel's VisionQuest, titled "Forever," premiered on Tuesday on Disney+, closing out the eight-episode series that serves as the final chapter of the WandaVision trilogy — and it did so with a full-circle return to the sitcom world where the story began.
In the finale, Vision (Paul Bettany) reaches his creator Ultron (James Spader) through a sitcom — a sequence showrunner Terry Matalas said was designed to honor WandaVision. "We knew we wanted to honor WandaVision. We knew we were heading towards that territory," Matalas told Collider. "Ultimately, in the writing, about halfway through, I was like, 'No, this has to be about Vision and Ultron. That's what the show really, truly is.'"
Spader, who last played Ultron in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, said filming the sitcom scenes was "lovely and funny, and also scary and sort of disturbing," adding that the tone would shift within a scene, "really getting pretty dark at times, and then just laugh-out-loud funny."
The finale also delivered the long-awaited family reunion, with Tommy and Billy Maximoff reuniting with Vision. "We always knew that reunion was going to be, and how much of it, and how early — what would be right for Tommy, what would be right for Billy, what would be right for the family story," Matalas said. "I feel like we got the proper emotional reunion for them."
One familiar face did not appear: Agatha Harkness. Asked whether there were plans to include a ghost version of the character, Matalas laughed: "I don't know that we could have afforded that. So not really, no."
Spader also plays a second character in the series, Virgil — the "man behind the curtain" villain the show builds toward, complete with a mustache the actor designed himself. But Virgil is not the final obstacle, Matalas said: "It is truly about Ultron," which is what it always needed to be. "That's why Ultron kicked his ass," Spader added. "Oh boy, did he. Popped him," Matalas agreed.
Marvel has not announced a second season of VisionQuest, which it has sold as the conclusion of the trilogy that began with WandaVision in 2021 and continued with Agatha All Along in 2024. Matalas has said he would happily make more, but the decision belongs to Marvel Studios. A companion podcast hosted by Iman Vellani and Frank Alvarez launched alongside the finale on Tuesday. All eight episodes of VisionQuest are now streaming on Disney+.
