Review of Promises

Secret Invasion: Promises (2023)
Season 1, Episode 2
3/10
Hopefully not downhill from here
5 July 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The show seemed to have started off with a promising first episode. However, the writing for the second episode was really lacking. Poor storyline, so many characters but we don't really go in depth into each one.

  • Standard 'we are taking over the world' story with weak characters. I get that this is the second episode so they are still trying to build the plot. Hopefully it gets better as the series progresses.


  • More "race related" conversations that seem so forced (standard phase 4 marvel agendas we are all familiar with by now). That entire train sequence was so unnecessary. The only portion that added value was the part where they mentioned that (paraphrasing here)"humans can't get along with each other, much less with another species".


  • Characters that are supposed to be the 'ex-top director of a world wide organisation' looking at u fury behaving like they are in a kindergarten sandbox...Rhodes should know better than to blame Fury for something entirely out of his control. Marvel needs to stop downplaying what their heroes do. (Hulk and Ant Man got similar treatments recently)


Did not enjoy the cheap violence done for shock value as opposed to the gun shot scene at the end..but I guess that was the point of those scenes.

Sonya...really do not like her. Valentina Fontaine's annoying 2.0 character.

Locations are really nice tho.
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