What if there was a series that was just going to kind of float around the MCU, show alternate angles on things from a multiverse perspective and just kind of have some fun in an unconnected kind of way.

But what if the creative team behind said show decided to connect everything together in an absolutely awesome finale? Well, what if that's the subject of

today's podcast? Howdy, I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A. My agenda is simple. Each

week I plan to bring you in-depth insight into the creative process of storytelling. And folks,

I am absolutely pleased to have with me today, director Brian

Andrews and head writer A.C. Bradley to chat about season one of what if. Now, I absolutely

love this. I've always been a fan of anthology storytelling. Twilight Zone was just my first

exposure to it and the greatest. Of course, I dig outer limits too.

And yes, I even like the 1980s version of Twilight Zone.

Their reboot that I remember getting really into as well.

I love anthology storytelling.

There's a lot of possibilities with it.

And I knew it was going to be fun for them to poke around the MCU,

see the different perspectives come at it from different angles, right? Just like Tom Stoppard's fantastic play, Rosencrantz and Gilden Stern are dead, which looks at Hamlet from a slightly different and much more comedic angle.

You could also see the movie as well, which is pretty

amazing. But look, I love it when people do that. I love it when people kick the tires and

look at a story from another angle. What I wasn't expecting was for them to tie it all together

so perfectly in their finale, which was just a treat for lack of better word. I know that that's always

thrown around a lot saying, oh, it's such a treat. But it really was because it was unexpected.

I wasn't really sure what they were going to do to tie things up, but the stories were so separate

from each other that it, of course, made great sense in a multiverse to figure out a way to bring them together,

which is what they did.

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