What If...? Episode 3: What If...Zombies?! (Spoiler Free Review)

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Yes, theatres are finally open in Malaysia (YAYYY!!!) but that doesn't mean we should forget about the new episode of What If...?. This week's episode has been pretty anticipated since its reveal in the trailer back in December. Marvel Studios adapts their zombie comic book run for an episode for the Disney Plus anthology series where we see our favorite superheroes infected with a virus that turns everyone into the walking dead. 

How does this happen, you may ask? Well since What If...?'s main theme is changing a specific event that occurred in the sacred timeline within Ant-Man and The Wasp where Hank Pym attempts to save his long-lost wife, Janet van Dyne, from the Quantum Realm? In the movie, he succeeds long enough before he, Janet, and Hope get dusted while Scott was stuck in the Quantum Realm, coinciding with the events with the ending of Infinity War. 

This time around, Hank finds Janet infected by a virus from Quantum Realm that is similar to a zombie virus and brings it back to our world, causing a major outbreak, infecting many of the Avengers and other heroes of Earth as well. With most of the episode focusing on survivors of the apocalypse such as Spider-Man, Okoye, and Hope Van Dyne, our heroes must find a way to Camp Lehigh in New Jersey to find a cure. 

With that said, considering since I was exceptionally excited for this episode, I am sort of disappointed as to how quickly this episode ran. Episode 5 is the shortest episode thus far and due to that, the pacing of the episode was honestly much worse than the premiere episode. Yes, the idea to adapt the Marvel Zombies into an episode should seem fun and mind-blowing but I couldn't help but feel like Marvel Zombies deserves a large-scale movie or at least a longer episode, or maybe a mini-series if possible, to be considered a good entry within the MCU. I really hoped this episode would be one of the better episodes in the season alongside last week's Strange-centered tragedy and T'Challa's journey as Star-Lord. However, I, unfortunately, do not think so. 

But there are two things audiences can get out of the episode. One is how the Marvel universe looked zombified. Seeing Tony, Stephen, and Steve as zombies was terrifying and this might be the most violent entry within the Kevin Feige-led MCU to date. Another would be how the episode is left with a horrifying cliffhanger and it's obvious a sequel for the episode is in development for season 2. Hopefully, What If...? does some repolishing in terms of not runtimes and pacing by then especially since everything else about this show is great enough from its inclusion of almost everyone from the current MCU to its satisfying animation.


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