Tag: don cheadle

REVIEW: Secret Invasion: Season 1, Episode 6, “Home”

“Home” is the kind of finale I probably should have expected from Secret Invasion. Like seemingly all of the Marvel Disney+ shows, it started with a lot of promise and devolved into a grating screed on left-wing politics that got bogged down in a mess of plots and subplots and diminished a great...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 5, “Harvest”

“Harvest” is the point in a story where you kind of just want it to end. I enjoyed most of Secret Invasion in the beginning, but this episode makes it clear that the setup is not going to have a satisfying payoff. There are too many story strands to tie up in a week, too …

Read More

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 4, “Beloved”

“Beloved” is, for the most part, a return to form for Secret Invasion, an episode more in line with the first two, which were good spy thrillers, than last week’s “Betrayed,” which mixed some decent elements with another blatant Disney character assassination. There are some inconsistencie...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 2, “Promises”

With its second episode, “Promises,” Secret Invasion gets even more intriguing, wrapping itself comfortably in the espionage tropes it introduced last week and introducing shades of gray for all the main characters. There’s a subtlety to this show that other Marvel productions don’t have, es...

Secret Invasion Trailer Trusts No One

The guessing game has begun, as Marvel has released a trailer for its upcoming Disney+ miniseries Secret Invasion. Samuel L. Jackson returns as Nick Fury, who is the lead for the first time, to battle a renegade Skrull faction that has infiltrated the world’s governments with plans for conquest. C...

New Secret Invasion Details and Images From Vanity Fair

The secrets are out about Secret Invasion. Vanity Fair has some details on the upcoming Marvel miniseries, which will premiere on Disney+ on June 21, 2023. Till now, Marvel had been very cagey about Secret Invasion; we knew it would star Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, that Cobie Smulders and Ben M...