Marvel’s VisionQuest signed off with its biggest audience yet. The season finale, an episode titled “Forever,” drew 3.7 million global views on Disney+ in its first 24 hours, according to figures Disney released this week, making it the most-watched Marvel television finale in more than three years.
Disney framed the result under the headline “Marvel Television’s ‘VisionQuest’ Ends on a Series High.” The figures cited from that announcement put the finale 44 percent above the episode before it, and only one recent Marvel show has done better at the end of a run: Loki Season 2, which wrapped in November 2023.
How the finale beat Marvel’s recent shows
That three-year window covers a busy slate. Since Loki closed out its second season, Disney+ has aired the finales of Agatha All Along, Daredevil: Born Again and Wonder Man, and Disney’s numbers put the VisionQuest closer ahead of all of them.
The comparison with Loki is closer than it looks. Disney reported 11.2 million global views for the Loki Season 2 finale over its first three days. Spread evenly, that is about 3.73 million a day, on Badiyaa’s arithmetic (11.2 divided by 3), almost level with the 3.7 million VisionQuest earned in a single day. Opening days usually draw the most viewers, so Loki very likely still had the bigger first 24 hours, but the gap is narrower than the “three years” framing suggests.
Working backward from the 44 percent jump also gives a rough size for the penultimate episode: 3.7 million divided by 1.44 comes to roughly 2.6 million views, a strong figure for a show in its seventh week.
A slow start, then a climb
The finale numbers mark a turnaround. Smart-TV tracker Luminate counted 639 million minutes viewed in the show’s first ten days, a modest opening by the standards of WandaVision, the 2021 series that began this trilogy. Nielsen’s streaming charts then placed it seventh among original series for the week of October 19 to 25, with 490 million minutes watched, and Disney says it climbed to sixth the following week.
The ending also gave fans plenty to talk about. As we reported, the finale closed with a secret post-credits scene bringing back Wanda alongside Doctor Doom, which pointed straight toward the next big Avengers film.
What VisionQuest is
Created and run by Terry Matalas, VisionQuest is the third chapter of the story that began with WandaVision and continued with Agatha All Along in 2024. Paul Bettany returns as the rebuilt synthezoid Vision, trying to work out who he is by talking to the AI personas embedded in his own programming, and James Spader plays Ultron for the first time on screen since 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. Fans who followed the build-up will remember the trailer that first reunited Bettany’s Vision with Spader’s Ultron in October.
The eight-episode miniseries was filmed at Pinewood Studios near London between March and July 2025. Its first two episodes screened at the BFI London Film Festival on October 12, 2026, before the Disney+ premiere a day later, and the final two episodes arrived one at a time on November 3 and November 10.
The score is still coming out in pieces. Composer Mick Giacchino’s second soundtrack volume, covering the last four episodes and the original song “Don’t Kill the World” by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, was released on November 12, and all eight episodes are streaming now on Disney+.
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