Tag: Secret Invasion

Marvel Introduces Marvel Spotlight Label

Marvel is looking to uncomplicate the increasingly complicated MCU. Well, not exactly; they’re mostly trying to get people to watch their content again. But they have a new idea about how to do it. While screening the first two episodes of Echo at the Choctaw Nation’s annual powwow, Marvel unve...

Marvel Overhauling their TV Productions, Starting with Daredevil

How the mightiest have fallen. A new article by The Hollywood Reporter details the troubles Marvel has faced in the past few years, specifically in developing their Disney+ shows. None of the series began with a pilot but simply dove into production, with seasons costing up to $150 million. These s...

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 …

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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 3, “Betrayed”

“Betrayed” is the episode that comes in seemingly every Disney+ Marvel show: the turn. It’s where something that was either enjoyable or looked like it might be great reveals itself for the undercooked, politically skewed, poorly plotted, character-destroying pablum it really is. And, as alway...