Tag: Spy

REVIEW: Secret Invasion: Season 1, Episode 6, “Home”

“Home” is the kind of finale I probably should have expected from Secret Invasion. Like seemingly all of the Marvel Disney+ shows, it started with a lot of promise and devolved into a grating screed on left-wing politics that got bogged down in a mess of plots and subplots and diminished a great...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 5, “Harvest”

“Harvest” is the point in a story where you kind of just want it to end. I enjoyed most of Secret Invasion in the beginning, but this episode makes it clear that the setup is not going to have a satisfying payoff. There are too many story strands to tie up in a week, too …

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REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 4, “Beloved”

“Beloved” is, for the most part, a return to form for Secret Invasion, an episode more in line with the first two, which were good spy thrillers, than last week’s “Betrayed,” which mixed some decent elements with another blatant Disney character assassination. There are some inconsistencie...

REVIEW: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

In certain ways, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is exactly what it needs to be; in other ways, it falls short, as the series has pretty much since the beginning. Fortunately, it works in the ways it most needs to, especially right now, as moviegoers are starved for unabashed enterta...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 3, “Betrayed”

“Betrayed” is the episode that comes in seemingly every Disney+ Marvel show: the turn. It’s where something that was either enjoyable or looked like it might be great reveals itself for the undercooked, politically skewed, poorly plotted, character-destroying pablum it really is. And, as alway...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 2, “Promises”

With its second episode, “Promises,” Secret Invasion gets even more intriguing, wrapping itself comfortably in the espionage tropes it introduced last week and introducing shades of gray for all the main characters. There’s a subtlety to this show that other Marvel productions don’t have, es...