Main cast: Oscar Isaac (Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley), May Calamawy (Layla El-Faouly), Khalid Abdalla (Selim), Ann Akinjirin (Bobbi), David Ganly (Billy), Antonia Salib (Taweret), and Ethan Hawke (Arthur Harrow)
Directors: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
The Tomb has passed the midpoint of this season of Moon Knight, and I’d like to start off by expressing my appreciation at how so far I have not been subjected to a dozen cameos from future MCU characters.
Perhaps this show is an anomaly to the MCU programming, as it is not an overlong advertisement for upcoming shows, but rather, an actual show that wants to tell a story. Imagine that even happening in the present day of consoomer cape crap overflow!
Shame about the story. I still stand by my point: it tries to tell a complex story and introduce an entire mythology in an accelerated pace that does itself little favor.
Had this first season been stretched to two seasons… oh wait, then they’d take the opportunity to throw in cameos of Squirrel Girl or other horrid things that nobody should be subjected to.
Either way, this show is doomed by the very fact that it is a present day cape crap made for Disney+. Poor Oscar Isaac.
Back to this episode, the show has settled into a comfortable fetch quest: Grant and Spector, along with Layla, have located the tomb of Ammit, and now they have to make their way there.
Grant is falling for Layla, because she’s a female lead character in a present day MCU show and hence is an all-around flawless creature with obligatory daddy issues—is anyone keeping count of how many of these female characters are already present in the current phase of the MCU?—and Spector isn’t pleased.
Well, wait until he learns that Layla has discovered that it is he that killed her father. Yes, she’s boring, but at least she’s not a quip-a-thon machine, I guess.
So, this episode is basically the same thing as before: tepid action sequence, characters that still feel underdeveloped running around doing things that I can’t be enthused over, and another twist towards the end that seem to suggest that this whole show has just taken place inside cray cray Grant’s head.
Well, except not, as a few seconds later another character shows up at this late stage of the season to add to the bloat and suggest that the previous few episodes and this one really did happen.
Sigh. Too bad I’m too aware that this episode and the previous show really happened, because this show is shaping up to be an interesting premise botched by its execution of that premise.
