By Marvel Studios wrapped its animated anthology series “What If…?” the other day and while critics have been kind, the audience reaction to the most recent season has been decidedly mixed.
Someone who outright disapproves is Beau DeMayo, the former head writer on Marvel’s much more acclaimed animated series this year “X-Men ’97”.
Posting on X, DeMayo says: “#whatif season 3 yikes just yikes… I’d watch more to give notes on how it could’ve easily been done better but I have some water to watch boil.”
He added that the season had “no substance” and “the dialogue is flat and so obvious, and some of the premises are just weird.”
The comments are relevant as “What If?” writer Matthew Chauncey has taken over DeMayo’s old job – serving as head writer on the third season of “X-Men ’97” and overseeing re-writes of the second season – a season which DeMayo had already written before being let go by Marvel.
In reactions to his review, DeMayo indicated that Chauncey and Marvel had already made changes to his “X-Men ’97” second season work, saying they removed “intercut time hopping across the first episodes because it was ‘too complicated.’” He later added they’re “throwing out or reworking most of my season 2 as well.”
He also says that A.C. Bradley, who served as head writer on the first two seasons of “What If?,” completely stepped back for Chauncey to take over in the show’s third season.
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