Series guide
- Creators
- Destin Daniel Cretton · Andrew Guest
- Stars
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II · Ben Kingsley · Arian Moayed
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Wonder Man episodes 8
Season 1 · 8 episodes · 8 aired · Jan 27, 2026 to Jan 27, 2026
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S1.E1 ·
Matinee
Simon Williams, an actor whose career keeps stalling, talks his way into an audition for Von Kovak's remake of the superhero movie he loved as a kid, and falls in with Trevor Slattery.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton · Written by Andrew Guest
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S1.E2 ·
Self-Tape
A simple self-tape audition turns into an all-day ordeal as Simon drags Slattery around Los Angeles looking for anywhere he can get one scene on camera.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton · Written by Andrew Guest
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S1.E3 ·
Pacoima
Slattery tags along to Martha Williams' birthday party in Pacoima, where Simon's relatives, and especially his brother Eric, have opinions about the acting thing.
Directed by James Ponsoldt · Written by Paul Welsh & Madeline Walter
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S1.E4 ·
Doorman
The story of DeMarr Davis, a Los Angeles club doorman who picks up a strange ability, gets pulled into the movie business, and ends up changing the rules for everyone in it.
Directed by James Ponsoldt · Written by Zeke Nicholson
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S1.E5 ·
Found Footage
Debts Slattery would rather not explain catch up with the pair overnight, and a kid with a GoPro ends up holding footage Simon badly needs erased.
Directed by Tiffany Johnson · Written by Anayat Fakhraie
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S1.E6 ·
Callback
Kovak gathers his shortlist at his mansion for a day of improv exercises, and a sleepless Simon has to work out how much of himself he is willing to put in front of people.
Directed by Tiffany Johnson · Written by Roja Gashtili & Julia Lerman and Andrew Guest
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S1.E7 ·
Kathy Friedman
Shooting begins, and news that New York Times writer Kathy Friedman is profiling them sends Simon spiraling over what a reporter could turn up.
Directed by Stella Meghie · Written by Kira Talise and Andrew Guest
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S1.E8 ·
Yucca Valley
With the production and the DODC both pressing in, Simon weighs what he owes Slattery against the career he has finally started to build.
Directed by Stella Meghie · Written by Andrew Guest
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One season is all there is, and that changes how you should watch it
Disney+ ordered a second season on March 23, 2026 and cancelled the show on July 30, four months later. That is the fact to have before you press play. Andrew Guest had already written the first episode and an outline for the season, contracts were signed, and a writers’ room was booked for August 2026 ahead of a planned early-2027 shoot; Variety reported the writers were released instead. So the finale you reach is the ending, not a stop on the way to one – go in reading it as a complete eight-episode story and it holds up far better than it does as a first season.
What it actually is, is a Hollywood comedy. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Simon Williams, a working actor chasing the lead in a remake of an in-universe superhero film, and most of the season is auditions, agents, table reads and the particular humiliation of a self-tape. Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery – last seen in Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – is the other half of it, and executive producer Brad Winderbaum has described the series as the close of a Slattery trilogy. Destin Daniel Cretton directed and created it with Guest for Marvel Studios’ Marvel Television label. All eight episodes went up together on January 27, 2026, none of them longer than 36 minutes.
It also arrived late enough to be about its own lateness. The series was ready around September 2024 and sat on a shelf while Marvel cut its output, which is why Kevin Feige has said he disliked releasing it after HBO’s The Franchise and Apple TV+’s The Studio had already covered similar ground – a show about an industry that cannot decide what to make next, cancelled by an industry that could not decide what to make next. We wrote about that framing before it landed in our piece on Wonder Man and superhero fatigue, and Marvel’s Wonder Man comic relaunch is the print companion. For the other end of the Marvel Television slate, our Daredevil: Born Again guide is the serialized opposite of this one.
Wonder Man cast 12
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen IISimon Williams -
X MayoJanelle Jackson
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Zlatko BurićVon Kovak -
Ben KingsleyTrevor Slattery -
Arian MoayedP. Cleary -
Joe PantolianoHimself (fictionalized) -
Byron BowersDeMarr Davis / Doorman
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Josh GadHimself (fictionalized) -
Olivia ThirlbyVivian -
Demetrius GrosseEric Williams -
Shola AdewusiMartha Williams
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Béchir SylvainSanford Williams
- Creator
- Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Guest
- Director
- Destin Daniel Cretton, Stella Meghie, James Ponsoldt
- Studios
- Marvel Studios
Photos via Wikimedia Commons. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0; Zlatko Burić: GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0; Ben Kingsley: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0; Arian Moayed: Max, CC BY 3.0; Joe Pantoliano: Justin Hoch photographing for Hudson Union Society, CC BY 2.0; Josh Gad: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0; Olivia Thirlby: Pete Morawski, CC BY 3.0; Demetrius Grosse: Levineasst1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I watch Wonder Man?
Wonder Man streams on Disney+ in the US with a subscription. It was made by Marvel Studios’ Marvel Television label for Disney+, so all eight episodes live there and nowhere else.
How many episodes of Wonder Man are there?
Eight, and they all landed on the same day. None runs longer than 36 minutes, so an evening and a half covers the lot.
Do I need to watch other Marvel shows first?
No. Nothing in the wider MCU sets this up and nothing in it is required reading for what comes next – that is what the Marvel Spotlight label on it means.
Do I need to have seen Iron Man 3 or Shang-Chi?
It helps but it is not required. Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery appeared in both, and Wonder Man picks him up after them, but the series explains who he is.
Is there a season 2 of Wonder Man?
No. Disney+ ordered one on March 23, 2026 and then cancelled the show on July 30, 2026 before the writers’ room opened. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley could still turn up in other Marvel projects.
