Marvel Confirms Essential Disney+ Show Before Doomsday

Marvel officially confirmed which Disney+ series is absolutely essential viewing before Avengers: Doomsday drops, though the headline leaves us guessing which one actually matters most. The MCU has definitely had mixed results lately—post-Endgame momentum fractured into a bunch of streaming experiments with wildly inconsistent quality. Avengers: Doomsday is being positioned as a potential course-correction moment, the kind of event that might finally justify all those mid-tier Disney+ shows that left audiences cold. The subtext here is that Marvel's getting strategic about what fans *actually* need to watch versus what's just filler, which, worth noting, would be a major shift in how they've approached the interconnected universe lately.