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Secret Invasion – Betrayed

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  • Title: Secret Invasion – Betrayed
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The third episode of Secret Invasion is only a marginal improvement over the first two episodes of the series It may reveal Gravik‘s (Kingsley Ben-Adir) big plan of creating Super-Skrulls but it doesn’t do much else. It teases us about the relationship between Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Varra (Charlayne Woodard) without exploring it. It kills off G’iah (Emilia Clarke) before she can become interesting, and gives Fury and and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) the opportunity to bicker like old lovers while stopping the Skrulls force an attack on an infiltrated nuclear submarine.

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Secret Invasion – Resurrection & Promises

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  • Title: Secret Invasion – Resurrection & Promises
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Inspired by the Marvel comic storyline of the same name, Secret Invasion provides a mini-series where Skrulls have infiltrated the globe and are actively working to take control of the planet for themselves. Given their introduction as refugees rather than terrorists in the film which also introduced Carol Danvers, the show has to work four times as hard to try and position the Skrulls as bad guys. Two episodes in, by giving us Skrulls who largely stay in the shape of a single human, rather than quickly jump as they please or remain in their natural state, each limiting their abilities (and the show’s budget), the results are mixed

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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – The Borough Bully

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  • Title: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – The Borough Bully
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The second episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur gets literal when, after earning praise from everyone else in the neighborhood, Moon Girl (Diamond White) becomes obsessed with a troll’s negative comments online eventually tracking them back to an actual troll who she’s unintentionally being feeding with her attention nearly bringing down a bridge. There’s a nice, if pretty blatant, message about how to deal with negativity online in “The Borough Bully” as Moon Girl eventually sees the error of her ways and disarms the troll by no longer engaging in his negativity.

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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – Moon Girl Landing

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  • Title: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – Moon Girl Landing
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Simplifying origins of the Marvel Comics characters, the first double-sized episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur introduces us to brilliant 13 year-old Lunella Lafayette (Diamond White) who attempts to solve her neighborhood’s power shortage (which is actually being caused by a super-villain, more on that later) by recreating what she believes is a power generator but is actually a portal generator which a red dinosaur walks through. With the help of a social media obsessed classmate (Libe Barer) and her new dino pal, our young teen takes to the street with an assortment of homemade gadgets and dinosaur sidekick to fight for the safety of the Lower East Side.

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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – Episode 8

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  • Title: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – Ribbit and Rip It
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Well, at least the Daredevil scenes were fun. Sandwiched between the show’s mediocre sitcom writing about a super-hero lawyer who dosen’t do much super-heroing or lawyering, the meat of the episode offers the return of Charlie Cox both in and out of costume as Matt Murdock and Daredevil. Also, points for getting the yellow version of Daredevil on screen (even if the reason for the change in costume is never addressed). For a series fumbling around the idea of female empowerment, there is some irony in the idea that it’s a man who gets Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) back into the courtroom (as a lawyer and not a defendant) and into her super-hero costume for the first time.

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