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 inconsistencies and some massive leaps in logic that appear to […]
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 always, there are traces of what Secret Invasion almost was – […]
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, especially lately, and that makes it stand out; it also makes […]
REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 1, “Resurrection”
Remember when we used to expect Marvel movies to be good? It wasn’t all that long ago, but it feels like a lifetime since we entered a theater or, almost as often these days, started a new TV show without trepidation and with the anticipation of a fun story with characters we either knew we […]
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. Cobie Smulders, Don Cheadle, Ben Mendelsohn, […]
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 Mendelsohn would return as […]