Best Of
Every Marvel TV Show Ranked Before VisionQuest
By Jordan A. · · 4 min read
Marvel is about to add another chapter to its small-screen run. VisionQuest lands on Disney+ on October 14, an eight-episode miniseries from Terry Matalas that brings Paul Bettany back as Vision, with James Spader, Mary McDonnell, and Emily Hampshire along for the ride. It is a good moment to look back at how we got here, because the Marvel TV era has been wildly uneven, with a few genuine greats and more than a few misfires. Here is our ranking of the ones worth your time, counting down to the best.
A quick ground rule. This covers the Disney+ era of Marvel series, the interconnected run that started in 2021, judged on how they hold up as television rather than how much homework they demand. Some of these are essential, some are fun, and a couple are worth skipping unless you are a completionist. Let us get into it.
WandaVision is still the high point
Nothing Marvel has made for TV has topped WandaVision. Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany spend the early episodes trapped in a series of vintage sitcom pastiches, and the show slowly reveals the grief underneath the gimmick. It is strange, formally daring, and emotionally devastating in a way the movies rarely attempt, building to the single best line about loss in the entire franchise. The fact that it made a talking android and a reality-bending witch feel this human is why it still sits at the top, and it is the obvious homework before VisionQuest.
Loki went the biggest and mostly stuck the landing
Loki is the most ambitious thing Marvel has put on streaming. Tom Hiddleston's trickster teams with Owen Wilson's Time Variance Authority agent, and across two seasons the show reinvents itself into a mind-bending story about free will, time, and a god learning to care. The production design alone is worth the price of admission, all retro-futurist bureaucracy and crumbling timelines. Sophia Di Martino and a wonderfully odd Ke Huy Quan round out a cast that clearly relished the weirdness. It occasionally disappears up its own mythology, and the second season takes a while to find its feet, but the finale pays off the whole thing with real weight and gives Hiddleston the best material he has had in the role. If you like your superhero TV with a philosophy chaser, this is the one to beat.
Daredevil: Born Again brought back the grit
When Marvel revived Daredevil: Born Again in 2025, longtime fans braced for disappointment, and the show mostly rewarded their faith instead. Charlie Cox is back as Matt Murdock and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, and the series leans into the courtroom-and-alleyway grime that made the original Netflix run a cult favorite. It is darker and more adult than most of what Disney+ makes, a reminder that Marvel can do street-level crime drama when it actually commits. For fans of the character, it is the most satisfying TV the brand has produced in years.
Agatha All Along was the delightful surprise
Few expected much from a WandaVision spinoff built around its scene-stealing villain, but Agatha All Along turned out to be a blast. Kathryn Hahn leads a coven down a magical trial road, and the show is funnier, campier, and more heartfelt than its premise suggests, with a genuine emotional gut-punch waiting at the end. Joe Locke and Patti LuPone are standouts in the coven, and the show's catchy original song became a genuine pop-culture moment. It proved Marvel TV still has room to be weird and specific instead of just setting up the next movie, which is exactly the energy the best entries share.
The solid middle of the pack
Below the top tier sits a group of shows that are genuinely good without quite reaching greatness. These are the ones worth watching when you have exhausted the essentials, each with at least one thing it does really well, usually a performance that outshines the material around it. None of them are required viewing for VisionQuest, but all of them are a better use of an evening than doomscrolling. Here are the ones to prioritize:
- Moon Knight, for Oscar Isaac's unhinged dual performance and a willingness to get genuinely strange.
- Hawkeye, a cozy, Christmas-set buddy story that introduced the excellent Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop.
- Ms. Marvel, a bright, charming coming-of-age story anchored by a star-making Iman Vellani.
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, uneven but carried by the easy chemistry of Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan.
Where VisionQuest fits in
That brings us back to VisionQuest. On paper it has everything the best Marvel shows share: a tight episode count, a self-contained story, and a genuinely interesting character question, namely what is left of Vision after everything that happened in WandaVision. Terry Matalas earned a lot of goodwill reviving Star Trek: Picard, and if he brings that same care here, this could slot in near the top of this list. We will know soon enough. In the meantime, our guide to the best Disney Plus shows of 2026 covers what else is worth your subscription, and our picks for the best sci-fi shows of 2026 go well beyond the Marvel universe. For the widest view, our rundown of the best TV shows of 2026 so far has you covered. Or skip the ranking entirely and let BingeNext point you to the next great watch. Get TV recommendations and start watching.
Topics covered: marvel tv shows, visionquest, wandavision, loki, disney plus
About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and is responsible for every guide published on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu. Dates, season counts and where-to-watch details in these guides are checked against official sources before publishing, and corrections are welcome at Jordan@Bingenext.com.