Beloved
- Episode aired Jul 12, 2023
- TV-14
- 36m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
6.4K
YOUR RATING
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Cobie Smulders
- Maria Hill
- (archive footage)
Jorge Leon
- SAS Soldier
- (uncredited)
Jeska Pike
- Secret Service
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Rhodey (Don Cheadle) talks about how he fired Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), he makes a wrestling reference by saying "he DDTed the dude from the top rope and that it was Undertaker level." The DDT is a move that was actually invented and made famous by wrestler Jake "the snake" Roberts. The Undertaker (Mark Calaway) is known for using the tombstone pile driver to finish is opponents.
- GoofsThe sirens of the police in London sound like American police sirens, British police sirens sound quite different.
- ConnectionsReferences Untitled Marvel X-Men Film
- SoundtracksDeep River
Written by Norman Luboff
Featured review
The First Actual Decent Episode
After some not-so-much highs and very low lows, Secret Invasion gives us the first actually interesting and engaging episode, but unfortunately and unsurprisingly, it's only 30 minutes.
So I ranted a lot in my previous episode's review about the writing of that episode and the decisions the writers made, but I'll take it back with the opening of this episode. The last episode is still a filler and a nothing episode, so I'm not changing my stance on it being a bad episode.
This whole episode feels better and is more interesting because the dialogue got way better and scenes between Fury and other characters are written and directed in a more engaging way.
Although I would still say that this is the type of episode that would and should happen in a show with way more episodes, I think it still had its impact and I was invested in every scene, especially Fury and his wife.
Though I gotta say, this episode would've been way way more impactful if we actually knew anything about Fury's relationship with his wife beforehand. So the impact is lessened to a much smaller degree since we don't really know this character, just like Maria Hill in episode one.
I also wish they did the first poem scene happened in the previous episodes and not 5 minutes from the next scene it was referenced. But you can't really have a good characterization or character arc when you have all these characters and only 6 episodes to introduce and wrap up your story. Though I will question the baffling decision of the showrunner to not have 6 one-hour episodes that you could at least squeeze more characterization and storytelling into it, instead of your third to last episode being only 30 minutes. Of course you can't do much with this runtime.
It's also funny that there have been more character and dialogue scenes in this show than action, but this is the first time I'm actually engaged in their conversations and dialogue. The action in this episode is also pretty engaging and decent and they at least tried to make it look interesting.
Though I cannot help but once again feel like these Skrulls are any different than Flag Smashers. They don't really feel like the super aliens they actually are. The show might as well have been about a random human terrorist group they could've pulled out of comics and it wouldn't have been any different than Disney Plus' Secret Invasion.
There isn't much secret invading happening in this show. They don't really do much interesting things with this narrative device they have. They have a really cool premise and they could use this in a million interesting ways but it's like you're watching a regular show about Fury with not so much interesting things happening on the antagonist side of the story.
Again, this episode is by far the most interesting this show has been and is a pretty decent balance between dialogue and action and the pacing is pretty good. But even if you hated it, at least it ends pretty fast.
Obviously, they couldn't get much bigger actors from MCU in this show, and also if they did, it would've been pretty obvious that they could all be Skrulls. But that's the most disappointing thing about this show, that it's a show.
I wouldn't recommend watching this show weekly at all and I would wait for it to end and watch it all back to back if I haven't had seen it by now. And when you see it back to back instead of weekly, you'll recognize its problem in writing and characterization way better and you see why this isn't really working.
Overall, it's a decent episode and probably the first one that hasn't been outrageously boring or awfully written. And it's not a really good thing either for the show that only consists of 6 episode and the first half has been a dud.
So I ranted a lot in my previous episode's review about the writing of that episode and the decisions the writers made, but I'll take it back with the opening of this episode. The last episode is still a filler and a nothing episode, so I'm not changing my stance on it being a bad episode.
This whole episode feels better and is more interesting because the dialogue got way better and scenes between Fury and other characters are written and directed in a more engaging way.
Although I would still say that this is the type of episode that would and should happen in a show with way more episodes, I think it still had its impact and I was invested in every scene, especially Fury and his wife.
Though I gotta say, this episode would've been way way more impactful if we actually knew anything about Fury's relationship with his wife beforehand. So the impact is lessened to a much smaller degree since we don't really know this character, just like Maria Hill in episode one.
I also wish they did the first poem scene happened in the previous episodes and not 5 minutes from the next scene it was referenced. But you can't really have a good characterization or character arc when you have all these characters and only 6 episodes to introduce and wrap up your story. Though I will question the baffling decision of the showrunner to not have 6 one-hour episodes that you could at least squeeze more characterization and storytelling into it, instead of your third to last episode being only 30 minutes. Of course you can't do much with this runtime.
It's also funny that there have been more character and dialogue scenes in this show than action, but this is the first time I'm actually engaged in their conversations and dialogue. The action in this episode is also pretty engaging and decent and they at least tried to make it look interesting.
Though I cannot help but once again feel like these Skrulls are any different than Flag Smashers. They don't really feel like the super aliens they actually are. The show might as well have been about a random human terrorist group they could've pulled out of comics and it wouldn't have been any different than Disney Plus' Secret Invasion.
There isn't much secret invading happening in this show. They don't really do much interesting things with this narrative device they have. They have a really cool premise and they could use this in a million interesting ways but it's like you're watching a regular show about Fury with not so much interesting things happening on the antagonist side of the story.
Again, this episode is by far the most interesting this show has been and is a pretty decent balance between dialogue and action and the pacing is pretty good. But even if you hated it, at least it ends pretty fast.
Obviously, they couldn't get much bigger actors from MCU in this show, and also if they did, it would've been pretty obvious that they could all be Skrulls. But that's the most disappointing thing about this show, that it's a show.
I wouldn't recommend watching this show weekly at all and I would wait for it to end and watch it all back to back if I haven't had seen it by now. And when you see it back to back instead of weekly, you'll recognize its problem in writing and characterization way better and you see why this isn't really working.
Overall, it's a decent episode and probably the first one that hasn't been outrageously boring or awfully written. And it's not a really good thing either for the show that only consists of 6 episode and the first half has been a dud.
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- MamadNobari97
- Jul 12, 2023
Details
- Runtime36 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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