![]() ![]() Given Moon Knight's tremendous cast and delightfully wacky premise, I'm upset that this show fizzled out so spectacularly. Moon Knight Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight Csaba Aknay-Marvel Studios Read More: What to Remember Before Watching Marvel's Secret Invasion 7. And the CGI fight in the final episode may just be Marvel's worst-looking one to date. Moments of slick banter between Jackson's spymaster Nick Fury and his British counterpart, played by Olivia Colman, are totally undercut by rote superhero storylines involving alien terrorists played by Emilia Clarke and Kingsley Ben-Adir. Shocking deaths or betrayals are undone mere minutes later. Why not give him a paranoid spy triller in which he faces off against shapeshifting aliens who could be impersonating anyone in the MCU? But, without spoiling the series, I'll say that Secret Invasion drops a series of utterly baffling and often illogical revelations for the sake of surprising viewers with "twists." Characters we've followed for years are given confounding backstories. Jackson is arguably the hardest-working man in Marvel Studios' Atlanta compound with 15 superhero projects under his belt. At a certain point, the same superhero origin stories get a bit tired. In theory, Marvel should be experimenting with genre. ![]() Jackson as Nick Fury in Marvel Studios' SECRET INVASION Gareth Gatrell-MARVEL. Read More: WandaVision Deserves the Hype. But other shows with impressive A-list casts, like Moon Knight, fell flat after promising starts because interesting characters were pushed into uninspired plot lines. WandaVision, which premiered early in the pandemic, generated conversation across social media because of its creative storytelling. It was at this moment that Marvel Studios' parent company Disney launched its streaming service Disney+, and with it a slew of Marvel television shows to expand on the stories of the characters that will eventually make up a new super-team. That left relatively minor characters to take up the mantle of Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Phase 4. Thus ended what Marvel has dubbed "Phase 3" of the MCU. Thor flew into space to have his own adventure. And though the Avengers were able to resurrect those they had lost in Avengers: Endgame (2019), the victory came at great sacrifice. In Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Thanos made half the universe's population disappear with a snap of his fingers. A decade's worth of films culminated in every single superhero introduced in the MCU-including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Hulk, and Hawkeye- teaming up to defeat Thanos, a big purple alien with environmentally-sound but maniacal designs. Each new movie required at least some vague knowledge of what came before. The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once the most carefully constructed franchise in Hollywood.
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