The Marvel Cinematic Universe has already invaded our theaters since 2008, now it is the turn of our living rooms to be squatted by the Marvel series on Disney +.
Wanda/Vision – Style Exercise
After the exercise of very intelligent style of the first three episodes, the revelations arrive to get lost somewhat and the entry a little rickety into the fantastic with the second witch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c56m7ZTXhvQ But a very nice final battle scene raises the level. This atypical and daring series delivers a beautiful tribute to old sitcoms. Persist even if the beginning discourages you!
Falcon and the Winter Soldier – America Needs a Black Captain America… but not us
The series does not shine by its originality, I would even say more that it is too solemn. As for the characters, we are entitled to the archetype of the chic type and a winter soldier, despite everything that has been brought beforehand, the most extinct. Falcon and … try to sell us a new Captain America who is black. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_mSpyPVVzk We will have time to attend a little laïus on racism as if all viewers were universally American and had their problem with the whiteness of the skin, it's too compassed. Only flash of genius, the first successor of the Captain, nasty and violent at will.
Loki – A series centered on the best Marvel antagonist
A sci-fi rambling in the middle of a fantasy franchise that assimilates in a funny way in the middle of the films of the Avengers saga. On the one hand, madly improbable and on the other, terribly distracting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpS70gCsvw It is amusing to note the dialogues where Loki's verbomania confronts Mobius' lapidary gift of synthesis, able to detect the true from the false in the celestial nonsense. VAT reminds me of the futuristic bureaucratic mechanics of Brazil.
What if… ? – "Space, time, reality are not linear elements"
Faced with the expansion – not to say the hemorrhage – of the Marvel universe offering a magnificent promotion to Disney +, series abound. And a little boldness (even lively) is comforting and invigorating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDfaxdYx34Y This multiverse so touted for what it's exploited finally comes into play. We have the opportunity to meet our superheroes with a detail changed in their film. But it's a bit special for the last two episodes because, keeping a similar mechanic, it is a kind of synthesis to all these episodes with an air of déjà vu compared to the movies (modifying only the antagonist who brings together the infinity stones, Thanos for Ultron; this only serves to prove a little more the interchangeability of their villains).
Hawkeye – The most negligible Avengers
Making a series on the most non-existent of the Avengers was a thorny test but it is clever because it does not take itself seriously, like the musical about the battle of New York. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sulRiT2Cm-I Nevertheless, the appearance of the villain in the finale is ridiculous as is the role played by Yelena, for which I expected more importance. At the same time, in just six episodes, no time for scripted prowess.
Moon knight – "You can't imagine all that the gods hide from humans"
The MCU has somehow found a superhero at the height of an Indiana Jones. The contribution of Egyptian mythology is true. Despite mental illness, that is to say a dissociation of the personality, which is well treated, it is on the writing of the characters that the problem lies; we will know almost nothing about Steven and Marc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWtJ2u-7cGo Moreover, his powers are never explained. The plot is in its infancy and we have the vague impression of having watched six episodes for not much. And we hoped that the series would join the chronology or see another hero but again it is disappointment that reigns. Honorable fiction but not fabulous.
