Have people not realize yet that this is a low stakes, stand-alone kind of show?
"adds nothing to the MCU". No shit!
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@senhorlampada I see your review is a reply to mine that you wrote without even understanding what I meant.
When I said that "[it] adds nothing to the MCU" I wasn't asking it to be connected, I meant what's the purpose of existence of this show and of this episode in particular, what it brings of value to the MCU that it didn't have.
Take the Netflix shows for example. They're pretty disconnected from the larger MCU, yet they gave us compelling stories and well-done characters with a different tone from that of the movies, bringing diversification and quality to the larger universe. That's what they add to the MCU.
But this episode? It's only a filler story that was completely unnecessary for the show; and despite the fact that it DOES make references to the larger universe (did you miss that?), far from contributing anything positive, it only turns every element that it touches into an embarrassing childish mockery of itself.
I know the purpose of the show is to be a low-stakes comedy, but low stakes is not synonymous with low quality, and this is low quality.
It doesn't add, it subtracts. The show was better without this episode and the MCU was better without this show.
Review by ragreynolds
VIP7One of the most wildly inconsistent and disappointing seasons of TV I've ever seen. Episode 1 was filled with intrigue and potential, but the following 3 episodes completely missed the mark and felt mundane and generic - none of the intrigue from the first episode carried over. Then, just as I thought the show was going to stay that way, episodes 5 and 6 were absolutely fantastic! Unique storytelling with great characters, acting, and writing. But then the final 4 episodes came along and were easily the worst 4 episodes of the show - filled with juvenile characters, poor acting, and straight-up bad/lazy writing.
The tone of this season was all over the place, it's like it couldn't decide what it wanted to be. Episode 1 had me thinking that I was set for a dark and mature season of television. Compare that with the final episode - something that feels like it could be pulled straight from a teen Disney channel movie.
I will give season 2 a chance when it eventually drops, but if it's just going to be more of the same then I'm not sure I have the patience to sit through another 10 episodes of this. As I said, there were a couple of good episodes, but those are clear outliers, and it's not worth watching the other subpar episodes just to see them.
I give this season a very generous 6/10. Would probably be more like a 4.5/10, but episodes 1, 5, and 6 pull the average up.
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You took my words out of my mind. This is my same opinion practically to the letter. I had originally given the season 5/10 for the same reasons you did, then upped it to 6/10, and now it's back at 5/10. It keeps swinging around that average. I also found Episodes 5 and 6 to be the best.
My disappointment on this season comes down to one thing: wasted potential. There were so many interesting stories and characters packed into one season that could have been better exploited by developing them into longer arcs, but they instead were so frugal. Came and went by just like that and got forgotten by the next episode. You had begun to get hooked on something and then poof, it was gone and the story had moved on to something different and the previous thing was never acknowledged again. It was so frustrating.
Season 2 needs to be more consistent and drop the anthology format, it's not doing it any good.
