MCU

Marvel Zombies – Season 1 Review

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After the fun but very tame and green-blood-filled Zombies episode of “What If…?” I wasn’t super-excited about a whole series spun off from it, but you know what? It was really fun actually, mostly because they went for the higher TV rating / Age rating and therefore upped the gore (with red blood!) and even some casual swearing but still kept things light and comic-booky. It’s an odd mix, but one that really worked, so let’s take a look at what I assume is “Season 1” given it ends on a cliffhanger…

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Thunderbolts* Review

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Thunderbolts, or “Thunderbolts*  *The New Avengers” was probably one of the most uninteresting MCU films announced in recent memory, but I don’t know whether it was because of extremely low expectations or if it is just that good, but I really enjoyed it! The cast was fun, the lead “villain” was a good adaptation of a particular favourite obscure comic character of mine and generally it was a good time. Was it perfect? Well no, for example the ending felt a tad anticlimactic, but it was at least a whole film that didn’t feel like it was coming apart at the seams like some recent efforts… Let’s take a look!

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Captain America: Brave New World Review

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Catching up with the MCU now, with a film I’d been putting off for a while just because I hadn’t heard it was terrible or great, just lots of middling reviews. “Brave New World” had lots of rewrites and re-shoots and by the end of the film it was obvious that it was a bit of a jumbled mess, and hey guess what? Decidedly average, as “promised”. Oh well, at least it tied up a few loose ends in the MCU canon, that’s something, right?

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Daredevil: Born Again – Season 1 Review

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While this is indeed Season 1 of “Daredevil: Born Again” this is also Season 4 of the Daredevil show that started on Netflix, still my favourite superhero TV show of all time, so to say I was happy to hear about this would be an understatement (ignoring the months when it sounded like a reboot with no connection to the prior series, thank goodness they went back on that!) While this season hasn’t reached the peak that was Season 1 of the original series it does fit nicely with the rest of the original show, it’s still “gritty” and violent with a good message at its core and a fantastic cast. So let’s take a look!

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What If…? – Season 3 Review

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Several months late to the party on this one but for whatever reason I kept falling out of this season of the show and taking long breaks before I felt like continuing it. It’s a shame because I do like how they use several of the more obscure characters from the latter end of the MCU in the show but the stories themselves are often a bit.. meh. They become less “What If?” and more “Here are some characters in a zany adventure”, which is fine but not really why I liked the other two seasons. Well, either way, let’s finally take a look so I’m once again caught up on the MCU reviews!

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Deadpool & Wolverine Review

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I’ve said on this blog a few times that I tend to steer away from flat-out comedies because what you find funny is extremely objective. Case and point, while I enjoyed the first Deadpool film I found the second one leaned too heavily in the more crass humour that I don’t really enjoy, but I wouldn’t feel right reviewing it and giving it a low score because it might be right up someone’s alley, unlike more traditional storytelling issues which I feel more comfortable pointing out. Deadpool & Wolverine though is a “canon” entry in the MCU, and I really don’t want to miss one of the films out, so here we are! Thankfully for me the film doesn’t go down the crass route this time and lands some pretty good gags while keeping things gory and verbally explicit. Let’s take a look!

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The Marvels Review

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Another MCU film has hit… Disney Plus and due to the expense of bus fare and cinema tickets I skipped out on the actual cinema airing, so here’s my review of The Marvels! Honestly I hated how little I was excited about the film because of a certain subset of fans being really into ragging on the film for having female leads and I really didn’t want to be associated with them, but truth is the trailers did nothing for me so I waited for the streaming debut. Was I wrong in that? … No, I don’t think I would’ve got my money’s worth had I paid to see it, but it was still more entertaining than I thought, so let’s take a look!

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Echo Review

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Echo is an odd series when you think about it. It’s simultaneously a spin-off from the Hawkeye series, a sequel/spin-off from the now finally definitely MCU canon Netflix shows like Daredevil, the first Disney + era “mature” MCU show and the first “Spotlight” series, or in other words single season mini-series. It’s all of this and a show with a deaf Indigenous lady with a metal leg as its lead protagonist… who by the end of the show has some sort of supernatural power to go along with it? Bizarre, but what did I think overall? I really enjoyed it! … Up until the finale…

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What If…? Season 2 Review

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I really enjoyed the first season of What If…? but I saw so few people talking about it that I didn’t think a second season was too likely, but here we are! (and with a third confirmed as well for that matter) Season 2 had plenty of fun stories with the same level of surprising actors actually coming back to continue their roles, plus a very loose adaptation of the 1602 comics and an episode introducing an entirely new character to the MCU canon (even if it is in another universe…) Let’s take a look.

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