‘Wonder Man’ Review: Marvel’s Meta Superhero Saga Makes the Same Disney+ Mistakes

The idea of the superhero specialists at Marvel Studios producing a TV show about the making of a superhero movie is both clever and inevitable. It also sounds potentially dreadful.

Marvel shows and films have struggled with their insularity in recent years; they don’t exactly need more chances to pretend that superheroes are the center of all available universes. Moreover, the MCU has never really excelled at parody, nevermind satire. Case in point: When their new show “Wonder Man,” around halfway through its eight-episode run...