Main cast: Iman Vellani (Kamala Khan/Ms Marvel), Matt Lintz (Bruno), Yasmeen Fletcher (Nakia), Zenobia Shroff (Muneeba), Mohan Kapur (Yusuf), Saagar Shaikh (Aamir), Rish Shah (Kamran), Laurel Marsden (Zoe), Arian Moayed (Agent Cleary), Alysia Reiner (Agent Deever), Laith Nakli (Sheikh Abdullah), Azhar Usman (Najaf), Travina Springer (Tyesha), and Aramis Knight (Red Dagger)
Directors: Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah
Well, we’re here at last: the finale of Ms. Marvel, No Normal, and it’s meh.
It wraps up whatever loose ends in a rushed manner, because there are only six episodes and for some reason, these people think it’s fine to waste screen time on plodding, boring flashbacks that make little impact on the present story line.
So, Kamala’s family now unanimously accepts her and even calls her “perfect”. Why? How? Who knows. These people just go 180 from the first episode to this one, maybe because deep inside they are all secretly terrified that she will destroy them all with her powers if she didn’t feel worshiped enough.
Kamran squeezes the entire season-long is-he-bad, is-he-good arc of the designated hot villain-hero archetype in CW soap operas into a single episode, with Kamala’s awesome way with words apparently placating him into being her is-he, isn’t-he love interest a little longer.
Bruno… eh. Whatever. The rest of the gang, they are all Kamala’s fan club members now.
The “villains”, meh. These guys have so little screen time that they feel like something someone pooped into the show just to fulfill the obligatory action moments.
The real reason for the existence of this show is revealed only in its last few minutes. That it is a 6-episode billboard for the upcoming The Marvels is a given, as all Disney+ shows these days are invariably ads for more Disney products. No, there’s more: they also want Kamala to be an X-Man! Wait, are we still allowed to use “X-Men”, or have the woke people at Disney declared that word haram for whatever reasons?
So yes, Kamala Khan is truly here, in her final form as the ultimate young adult fantasy heroine that has attained at least three powerful godly statuses as well as the undying love and adulation of everyone and anyone.
It’s not even Mary Sue fantasy done right, as just like Moon Knight, the people behind this show operated under the impression that they had double the number of episodes to work on. So much time wasted on irrelevant things, resulting in truncated character development, forgettable plot and villains, and the leading young lady’s inability to produce any decent facial expression aside from that surprised Pikachu face she constantly has on.
All in all, Ms. Marvel started well only to roll downhill from there. The people writing the story really dropped the ball big time, and this show ends up becoming yet another evidence of the MCU fast running out of steam and losing focus of what made their past movies so popular in the first place.
