VisionQuest Episodes 1 & 2 review

VisionQuest, like its narrative forerunners, WandaVision and Agatha All Along, dips in and out of reality and asks us to believe in a digital world as well as a real one. With AI suddenly front and centre in the news it makes the show even more timely than the previous chapters. For those who may be less up to date with the lore relating to this most unusual character, the first episode of this new miniseries provides a succinct update, with clips, that tells you what you need to know. It’s an essential introduction to what might otherwise be a somewhat baffling show. Even with this opening montage some may still struggle with all the whys and wherefores and the fact that, for all the sharp action scenes, there’s a lot of philosophical musing about life and existence in the dialogue. Dig in though and there is treasure to be found… The question of who we are and whether something can be the same thing if every part has been replaced is the hook on which VisionQuest’s opening duo of…