Hawkeye

Hawkeye – Hide and Seek

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Hawkeye – Hide and Seek
  • IMDb: link

The LARPing episode. While there is plenty more going on in the second episode of Hawkeye, involving the first scenes of Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) together, “Hide and Seek” will be remembered predominantly as the LARPing episode as Clint tracks down the Ronin costume but is forced to take place in a LARP tournament to win in back. The sequence is glorious as the unamused Avenger works his way through the tournament, and helps out the firefighter, who stole the costume from the burnt-out shell of Kate’s apartment, to have the best day of his life.

…

Hawkeye – Hide and SeekRead More »

Hawkeye – Hide and Seek Read More »

Hawkeye – Never Meet Your Heroes

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Hawkeye – Episode 1
  • IMDb: link

The first episode of Disney+’s Hawkeye, notably being marketed as a mini-series and not a first season, involves two separate threads that will be brought together in the final scene. The breakdown is somewhere around 65% to 35% with the bulk of the episode focused on the introduction of Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) whose love of archery and desire to protect comes from her experiences witnessing the Chitauri Invasion of New York and her first look at Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). Years later, the talented college student returns home after some trouble at school to snoop into her mother’s (Vera Farmiga) new fiancé (Tony Dalton) which leads to a black market auction and the reason for putting her on a path to meet her hero.

…

Hawkeye – Never Meet Your HeroesRead More »

Hawkeye – Never Meet Your Heroes Read More »