They stuck the landing and delivered. A really great, satisfying finale that sets up the final season.
Its amazing how little Moon Knight is in Moon Knight.
Not in love with the show at all, and definitely a weak showing over the first two episodes.
The whole dual personality thing is really grating as a device, made all the worse by the poor Frank Spencer style english accent.
The CGI is pretty wonky and the creatures being invisible to everyone but Marc/Steven is lame, it makes each scene feel "more CGI" as everyone is reacting to nothing. There is no weight to the creatures either it just feels so fake, with zero stakes.
So far they have given us zero reason to care about this character, by making Steven annoying we as the viewer empathise less with whats going on. We are two episodes in and don't understand the stakes at all. Wandervision suffered from this but at least it had a mystery to unravel with characters we cared about. It could afford to play with the audience because they had already done the heavy lifting. Here we know nothing, aside that we spend 99% of our time with annoying Steven also clueless. It might be a fun thought experiment. But it isn't entertaining to watch.
On the plus side Ethan Hawke is doing the best he can with "generic bad guy who doesn't want to hurt anyone, but totally hurts everyone because evil reasons" role.
Still the weakest thing Marvel has put out, even behind Eternals, but better than previous episodes. Again, no Moon Knight which makes this a supernatural romp and not really a super hero show.
Plot was very predictable and I am not convinced this is going to end anywhere interesting at this point.
Not a bad start (7/10) mostly does an ok job at setting everything up. The choice to do 1hr 20-30min episodes seems like a good fit as well. Occasionally it felt like the pacing was off and things were being padded out with music montages etc. but pretty good for TV.
However if I am being nitpicky.
The actor (who is fine in the role) playing Winston doesn't have an accent even close to Ian McShane and I would have to keep reminding myself it is the same character from the JW movies, they don't feel connected in the slightest and the actor doesn't really look or sound the same. Why not just make him a totally new character instead?
There are a few driving scenes that really look like they are on a set infront of a green screen that feel like they could have fixed if they framed it better.
Finally, when they are in London, there are a lot of American English words used, that those British characters simply wouldn't say.
Attention to details matter and break you out of the experience when they haven't given things the care it needed.
