Main cast: Alaqua Cox (Maya Lopez/Echo), Chaske Spencer (Henry Black Crow Lopez), Tantoo Cardinal (Chula), Devery Jacobs (Bonnie), Zahn McClarnon (William Lopez), Cody Lightning (Biscuits), Graham Greene (Skully), and Vincent D’Onofrio (Wilson Fisk/Kingpin)
Director: Sydney Freeland

Oh, we’ve finally arrived at Maya, the finale of the first and very likely the only season of Echo. This must clearly be an event to remember. Will they bring back Kate Bishop and Hawkeye? Will they whore out Daredevil’s saggy, most-used rear end for one last desperate attempt to get people to watch this show?

No. They can’t be arsed, just like the nearly non-existent audience for this show.

Half of this episode is devoted to Chula and Maya’s dead mom (don’t ask) and everyone and everything else driving home that women are awesome, strong, empowered, almighty, and woosh while Maya sports her usual constipated expression. Alaqua Cox is likely as impatient as I am for this season to be over and done with.

Then, Fisk and his men are tired of being on this show, so they decide to show up for what is basically ritual self-elimination as we all know there is no way mere icky men could stand up against the power of womanhood.

So Maya, who by now has the powers to heal and to channel the spirits of Mary Siouxes in her dream to become the ultimate Mary Sioux, and all the women stand tall and proud like a marching line of merchandises that will forever rot at Ollie’s Bargain Outlet because nobody is buying this crap, and Fisk ends up crying and blubbering because men will always be a drooling inferior lot compared to the awesomeness of women in this universe, amen.

There are some unresolved plot threads and some scenes from earlier episodes had been built up only to go nowhere, but that is likely because those stuff had been cut to reduce this show to five miserable episodes and toss it out to Disney+ to be over and done with. Well, that or the screenwriters and director are incompetent hacks, a factor that is equally likely in the present day clown school that is Disney.

Maya never grows as a character, she just gets more powers by the end of this season. Remember how she has killed people and in this season blown up a warehouse with people inside? You’d think she would experience some moral conflict since she acts so superior now, but no, heaven forbid a girlboss experiences character development in any way. 

Echo is a boring turd through and through, and it gets bonus middle fingers waving in the air for assembling a cast made up of Native Americans only to reduce their characters into woo-woo mumbo-jumbo reservation stereotypes.

I suppose it’s not as bad as, say, Secret Invasion because it at least doesn’t destroy MCU lore and its self-inflicted damage is self contained. The season is also short and hence nowhere as excruciating as She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and it doesn’t reduce the concept of feminism into hypocritical blabbering from TikTok AWFLs.

It’s still a dull and forgettable waste of time, though, with muddled plot threads that go nowhere, scattered few painfully amateurish fight scenes interspersed with endless exposition dump monologues, and a lead character that is as interesting and memorable as soggy cold gruel, so yes, chalk this one up as another embarrassment to the once-proud legacy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.