[6.1/10] Another episode where there’s just too damn much going on. I get that this is the start of a new arc, and so the show has to take some time to set things up, but man, there is just oodles of table-setting here, with various mysterious introduced or hinted or gestured toward without any actual story being told in the episode.
The root of it is Shield vs. Kingpin vs. some other group led by Silver Sable (I’m guess Sword, based on their belts and basic paramilitary getups), all over a doomsday device from World War II and a Nazi scientist who’s popped up for the first time in decades. Some retired Shield guy named Keane jumps back into the picture, and he (at the behest of Shield) urges Aunt May not to sell her house, and Peter’s parents are part of some conspiracy to make the world think they were Russian spies. It’s more convoluted nonsense that will hopefully have some decent payoff down the line, but for now, just feels like a big jumble.
They even bring back the Sinister Six, and it’s basically an afterthought! There’s too many moving parts, none of which has any time or space to be developed in any meaningful way. I do like that Peter wants to get to Russia to figure out what the deal with his parents really is, and I like that Robbie has some connection to all this too, but long-held secret conspiracies that no one’s ever so much as hinted at before are such a lame storytelling device.
Overall, this is an inauspicious start to the meat of this season, but hopefully things tick up from here.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-06-24T04:20:29Z
[6.1/10] Another episode where there’s just too damn much going on. I get that this is the start of a new arc, and so the show has to take some time to set things up, but man, there is just oodles of table-setting here, with various mysterious introduced or hinted or gestured toward without any actual story being told in the episode.
The root of it is Shield vs. Kingpin vs. some other group led by Silver Sable (I’m guess Sword, based on their belts and basic paramilitary getups), all over a doomsday device from World War II and a Nazi scientist who’s popped up for the first time in decades. Some retired Shield guy named Keane jumps back into the picture, and he (at the behest of Shield) urges Aunt May not to sell her house, and Peter’s parents are part of some conspiracy to make the world think they were Russian spies. It’s more convoluted nonsense that will hopefully have some decent payoff down the line, but for now, just feels like a big jumble.
They even bring back the Sinister Six, and it’s basically an afterthought! There’s too many moving parts, none of which has any time or space to be developed in any meaningful way. I do like that Peter wants to get to Russia to figure out what the deal with his parents really is, and I like that Robbie has some connection to all this too, but long-held secret conspiracies that no one’s ever so much as hinted at before are such a lame storytelling device.
Overall, this is an inauspicious start to the meat of this season, but hopefully things tick up from here.