Marvel unpacks WandaVision, Isabel explores Isabel Allende’s life, and it’s a big movie night
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, March 12, and Saturday, March 13. All times are Eastern.
Top picks
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making Of WandaVision (Disney+, Friday, 3:01 a.m.): It’s only been a week since the finale of WandaVision, but let’s face it, everyone still wants more. Disney+ is here to deliver with this new comprehensive documentary series that will go behind-the-scenes of all its MCU television shows once they air, starting with WandaVision. Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, the rest of the cast and the creative team will pull back the curtains on how the production’s surprising concept took shape by drawing inspiration from classic sitcoms.
Isabel: The Intimate Story Of Isabel Allende (HBO Max, Friday, 3:01 a.m.): “The series will delight the author’s fans through and through. Even viewers unfamiliar with Allende are likely to find the tale of a mom trying to figure out a balance between work, life, military resistance, and exile engrossing, despite some of the production’s shortcomings.” Read the rest of Ines Bellina’s review of this limited series here.
Movie night
Kid90 (Hulu, Friday, 12:01 a.m.): In this documentary film, Punky Brewster’s Soleil Moon Frye shows hundreds of hours of footage she took as a teenager in the ’90s while growing up in Hollywood and New York City, balancing childhood and fame pre-internet and social media explosion. She will be joined by fellow child stars who give commentary of their own experiences, including David Arquette, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Brian Austin Green, and more.
Yes Day (Netflix, Friday, 3:01 a.m.): “The difficult negotiations of childrearing might have been a fine subtext—something to occupy the attention of parents in the audience—for a comedy so unmistakably family-oriented in tone. But in Yes Day, that element of the story is less of a side dish served for a more mature palate than the whole entrée.” Here’s Charles Bramesco’s full review of Yes Day, starring Jennifer Garner and Edgar Ramirez.