Samuel L. Jackson Excels in ‘Secret Invasion,’ Marvel’s Potent New Series GIVES MARVEL THE PRESTIGE TV TREATMENT

MCU is the first 45 minutes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the part that’s basically a ’70s conspiracy thriller, before the action gets bigger and the tone becomes more conventional. I loved WandaVision at its meta-sitcom-y peak and thought Hawkeye was most charming as Marvel’s explosive take on a Hallmark holiday film.

Samuel L. Jackson) has always been a mystery, and for good reason: he’s the ultimate spy. He’s not necessarily the guy that’s going to blend in, and as a Black man that grew up on a cocktail of blaxploitation and conspiracy in the Jim Crow South, you can’t really expect him to.

Fury’s superpower is that he doesn’t shape-shift so much as he code-switches, and he doesn’t lie so much as he withholds. He’s not shy about sharing personal anecdotes — the story he tells about his grandfather in Captain America: The Winter Soldier remains one of the highlights of the film — but it’s always for good reason. No matter how much he’s shared across the past decade and change, we still know very little about what makes Fury tick. Fortunately, Secret Invasion wants to change that.

Secret Invasion, is coming out on June 21st. By all accounts, Disney's marketing push on this show has been decidedly more muted than previous efforts, and judging by the first two episodes, there may be a reason behind keeping this one quieter than others.

The fact that the comic books benefitted from a longer timeline may be what makes this show feel truncated, if the first two episodes watched for this review are anything to go by. The opening minutes are laden with clunkily delivered exposition with no flair or urgency to it. Punctuating this is a less-than-impressive chase through the streets of Moscow, culminating in the show's unsurprising first reveal.

Tow eposodes in, it’s hard to tell just how much heat Secret Invasion’s really cooking with because it does seem to be angling itself to be something of a slow burn wit more surprising twists built in on the back end. It would be more than lovely to see those twists come at the end of anarrative that actually shows us – rather than tells us- just what all is at stake and how these characters are evolving in real time. But secret invasion also feels like exactly the sort of Marvel project that could end up falling into the trap of being too focused on Previewing what’s coming next when what it really needs is to just work as a self-contained story.

Secret Invasion also stars Don Cheadle, Dermot Mulroney, Richard Domer, and Charlay Woodard. The show hits Disney + on June 21st

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