Movie #4 of 2025: Thunderbolts* (2025) Very much the Marvel answer to DC’s Suicide Squad, starring a motley crew of operatives from the grayer side of the heroics business. In fact, some of these characters were villains in their original on-screen adventures, albeit roughly sympathetic ones. And as usual for the MCU at this stage, …
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TV Review: Daredevil: Born Again, season 1
TV #15 of 2025: Daredevil: Born Again, season 1 Even for Marvel, this is a wildly uneven show, although the tonal clashes make sense when you know a little about the production process behind it. As a sequel to the Daredevil series that originally ran on Netflix from 2015 to 2018, this revival brings back …
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TV Review: Agatha All Along, season 1
TV #12 of 2025: Agatha All Along, season 1 I had initially brushed off this show — an unnecessary-seeming spinoff of Marvel’s WandaVision, with the villain now reframed as an antihero — only to belatedly circle back to it on the basis of a few rave reviews. Ultimately I think it was better than I …
TV Review: Marvel’s The Punisher, season 2
TV #5 of 2025: Marvel’s The Punisher, season 2 This was the last piece of Netflix’s old Defendersverse (2015 – 2019) that I hadn’t seen before, both because I hadn’t felt very invested in the first season of the show and because at the time, the parent company seemed to be drawing a hard line …
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TV Review: What If…?, season 3
TV #52 of 2024: What If…?, season 3 This once-promising Marvel cartoon continues to deliver diminishing returns, and since this third season is apparently intended to be its last, it’s hard not to feel a sense of good riddance at this point (and to ponder the wasted potential left on the table, truly the biggest …
Movie Review: The Marvels (2023)
Movie #1 of 2024: The Marvels (2023) A bit of a strange sequel to 2019’s excellent Captain Marvel film. In addition to teaming up the returning cosmic superheroine with the now-adult Monica Rambeau (introduced and given powers on WandaVision) and teenage fangirl Kamala Khan (introduced and given powers on Ms. Marvel), this title takes place …
TV Review: Echo, season 1
TV #1 of 2024: Echo, season 1 I’m torn in my reaction to this premiere ‘Marvel Spotlight’ production — a designation meant to indicate a series that, while canonical to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe, should stand on its own for any audience and focus on smaller-scale personal stakes that don’t majorly affect any ongoing …
TV Review: What If…?, season 2
TV #62 of 2023: What If…?, season 2 Not nearly as impressive as the first year, which was a neat concept for a show but already had some issues in the execution that are worsened here. I swear, I’d feel so much more favorable towards this series if it truly were the anthology that it’s …
TV Review: Loki, season 2
TV #55 of 2023: Loki, season 2 This first second year of a Disney+ Marvel show could have easily faltered, given the production troubles that have been leaking out about the studio in general, the pivot away from their previous model of standalone miniseries events, and the recent domestic abuse allegations and arrests of major …
TV Review: Secret Invasion, season 1
TV #38 of 2023: Secret Invasion, season 1 This latest Marvel series, set in the modern-day but picking up plot threads from the 90s-set Captain Marvel movie, is a tediously dramatic and joyless affair (with Olivia Coleman’s cheerfully ruthless British intelligence commander providing the rare bright spot). It starts with a bold premise: the shapeshifting …
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