My Secret Invasion series review

My Secret Invasion series review

Intro: Skynet I mean SIRI find me a farewell song. 

 

How do I say goodbye to what we had? 

 

Oh no! This studio doesn't deserve that. 

 

And I will always love you. 

 

That song won't do either! 

 

Bye, Bye, Bye, Bye, Bye, I don't want to be a fool for you. 

 

Are your trolling me?  

My Editor: What are you doing?

Me: Saying goodbye to the MCU because this is the last time, I'm going to talk about it. Marvel Studios should have stopped after Endgame because we have nothing to look forward to. Is anyone really interested in their take on the Fantastic Four or the X-Men? 

Secret Invasion: This series is centered on Nick Fury who learns about a Skrull conspiracy that could endanger humanity. So, Fury has to figure out who he can trust so he can stop the Skrull's plan before it's too late. Just like Black Widow, this series failed to be The Winter Soldiers Younger Sibling. Despite seeing this concept before with the Thing, the Body Snatchers and Animorphs I'm curious to see the MCU's take on it the problem with telling this story is the execution. Most of the episodes have people talking and the action scenes are meh due to the editing. That's sad considering the budget this show has. 

It also failed to create or build suspense about who is a Skrull for the most part. Due to that, the show feels boring. Not only that we don't know what effect the Skrulls have on the world considering how long they have been around. Really the show needed more than six episodes to tell this story. When characters die it lacks the emotional weight. (To be fair we don't know or care about these people.) The conflict in this series is contrived and undermines the cosmic characters like Caption Marvel and Guardians of the Galaxy. 

This series should be called Bashing Nick Fury because that's what this show did. This is how the characters talk to him. 

You're too old for this Nick, you've lost your edge, you're crippled, do you know what two plus two is, Nick I'm going to start without you if you don't give me more than two minutes and fourteen seconds.

I don't mind the idea of Nick being off his game after the snap and getting his grove back. The issue is we don't see him progress from point A to point B. I'm also annoyed that we don't get inside his head about the snap. I mean why have a show centered on this character if you're not going to do that? We learn that He did lie to Steve Rogers in the Winter Soldiers I wish he didn't because this was disturbing. 

There isn't much to say about Talos because he doesn't serve much of a purpose in the story. His subplot with his daughter G'iah left more to desire.  

Speaking of G'iah the less I say about her the better because you will be annoyed with her in the last episode. 

James Rhodes is underused in this series. He just does PR work. The first conversation he has with Nick Fury gives me a headache. 

Gravik (the main villain) is a hotheaded idiot! I say that because he works with people that he shouldn't trust. Plus, his motivation is lame. 

The only good thing I can say about this series is I'm glad we don't know who's a Skrull among the Avengers because that could ruin some of the events in the MCU. I didn't mind the artwork in the opening credits it looks like something you would see at an art museum. There is one funny moment in the show but was ruined by timing. 

Overall, this show failed to give us a good series from Disney Plus. The people who worked on it should be ashamed of themselves because this studio should know better.