What is VisionQuest, but Marvel’s hopes for TV awards love persevering? Paul Bettany and James Spader reprise their Marvel Cinematic Universe roles as Vision and Ultron, respectively, in the eight-episode series, which caps a trilogy that began with 2021’s WandaVision and continued in 2024’s Agatha All Along.
Gold Derby can exclusively reveal that VisionQuest will submit in Drama Series categories at the Golden Globes, SAG Actor Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and Primetime Emmys. Additionally, where applicable, Bettany will be submitted as lead actor, and Spader as supporting.
That decision means that each installment in this MCU television trilogy has competed in a different category. WandaVision was entered as a Limited Series at the 2021 Primetime Emmys and subsequent 2022 awards ceremonies. Meanwhile, Agatha All Along went the Comedy Series route at the 2024 Emmys and in the equivalent categories at the 2025 Golden Globes and SAG Actor Awards.
Because VisionQuest includes characters originally featured in WandaVision, the show isn’t eligible for Limited Series categories. And while the series is filled with humor — including an extended gag in the season finale that riffs on sitcom tropes à la WandaVision and Too Many Cooks — the overall tone tilts toward drama, particularly in its particular endgame.
Taken together, WandaVision and Agatha All Along earned a total of 26 Primetime Emmy nominations. The former’s bids included lead acting nods for Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch, as well as Best Limited Series. With 23 nominations, it’s still the most-nominated MCU series to date, and the only one to be nominated in a “Best in Show” category. WandaVision ultimately took home three Emmy statuettes for costumes, production design, and music and lyrics.
Agatha All Along, meanwhile, earned a total of three Emmy nominations: sound editing, music and lyrics, and costumes. Star Kathryn Hahn — who reprised her Emmy-nominated role as Agatha Harkness — was also nominated for Best TV Comedy Actress at the 2025 Golden Globes and Patti LuPone received a nod for Best Comedy Supporting Actress at that year’s Critics Choice Television Awards.
Besides Bettany and Spader, the VisionQuest supporting cast includes Ruaridh Mollica as Vision and Wanda’s now-older son, Tommy; Todd Stashwick as the bounty hunter Paladin; Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H., another sentient AI program; and T’Nia Miller as Jocasta, who is revealed to have a tangled history with Ultron.
The VisionQuest showrunner is Terry Matalas whose previous credits include 12 Monkeys and Star Trek: Picard. In 2024, he received a WGA nomination in the Episodic Drama category for Picard‘s series finale, “The Last Generation.”
