Main cast: Samuel L Jackson (Nick Fury), Ben Mendelsohn (Talos), Kingsley Ben-Adir (Gravik), Charlayne Woodard (Priscilla), Killian Scott (Pagon), Samuel Adewunmi (Beto), Dermot Mulroney (President Ritson), Katie Finneran (Rosa), Emilia Clarke (G’iah), and Don Cheadle (James Rhodes/War Machine)
Director: Ali Selim
Oh my god, G’iah is still alive!
Yeah, the opening scene of Beloved is only going to be a shocker to people that for some reason believe that Disney would sign on Emilia Clarke only to waste her character when G’iah’s arc is only revving up. Do they think Ms Clarke is Cobie Smulders?
Things are starting to resemble that Oprah Winfrey meme in this episode. Only, instead of Ms Winfrey screaming that you get a car and you get a car, this one is more like you are a Skrull and you are a Skrull.
That’s right, the person Priscilla is getting shady with at the end of the previous episode turns out to be none other than Rhodey. Oh my god, he is a Skrull too! Now it all makes sense how he went from looking like Terence Howard to Don Cheadle in the second Iron Man movie! Was the MCU playing a decade-long game of 4-D chess or are these people just hauling twists out of their rear ends?
Since this is present day MCU run by clown school people that boast of having never watched old MCU stuff and are determined to twist everything for a so-called “modern audience”, I’m leaning towards the latter.
Nick Fury is on to them, though, and he has Priscilla bugged, which must no doubt rankle him because on top of the betrayal, he also has to hear her call him broken and useless.
Anyway, the whole episode drags on a bit more to the predictable climax of people lethargically shooting bullets at one another, and oh, another fellow gets shot and seemingly dies.
This is getting to be a running joke, with someone dying at the end of every episode. Are the audience members supposed to be placing bets as to whether the person will really die or pop up alive the next episode?
This is an alright episode, although it’s forgettable and still paced like a sedated snail groggily moving toward its destination.
The biggest issue here is that the story itself is shaping up to be some pedestrian Baby’s First Thriller stuff, nowhere interesting enough to be dragged out in slow and painful doses over the course of six episodes when three could have done just nicely.
Oh well, just two more episodes and then I can close the door on another underwhelming Disney+ present day offering.
