The problem Marvel seem to run into (and probably most superhero films/TV) is they want to play around with genre, but they never really commit to it because they worry about the dummies their audience not being able to follow along (and, of course, they need to string along the hardcore fans with nods to significant…

It seems like Marvel once again just took the name from one of their crossover comics just to get people excited and then just...meh.

This show was a pretty convoluted and sloppily written mess and nothing close to the paranoid spy thriller they tried to market it as. It felt cobbled together and all the rewrites an reshoots really showed. Gravik’s plans never made any sense because his actual motivations seemed to change from episode to episode. A…

Honestly, I think we needed a mention or a shot of G’iah and Fury doing a mind-meld-xerox face copy or whatever to explain the end monologues. Then we could be like, “Oh Fury really does feel that way because G’iah scanned him, real Fury just would never say that shit out loud.”

Goddamnit. I’ve defended this show, I thought it was better than every critic thought because somehow I KNEW BETTER. Fuck this finale was terrible.

I think in both instances the show had the idea of a rogue group trying to have a revolution, the producers saw that the characters actually made sense, so they did their best to stop the audience from sympathizing with the revolutionary characters.

Marvel had a real opportunity here to break out of their box and lean into the obvious mystery/paranoia of a spy thriller. Somehow, they decided to ditch that for something of a mess.

This is a show built heavily around the use of antisemitic and antimuslim conspiracy theories in order to create a paranoid feeling of terror and helplessness in the main characters and audience. But to get there it sacrifices its goodwill in creating its single best metaphor for refugee crises. And then it has the…

I’ve liked everything MCU has done, even stuff people hated like Dark World. Now those were varying degrees of like, but I still liked them. Secret Invasion is a first for me. It’s not good. By any means. It’s incredibly bland and dull. It keeps saying its a “spy thriller” yet displays none of the characteristics to…

If this is the best writing a human can do, then bring on the AI overlords and tell the WGA guys to find work at the Starbucks they are walking by.

Do I mean Bradstreet or Barsanti?

Yes.

Even by MCU standards this was ass. A badly written made-for-tv movie that got chopped up and slightly padded out to stretch it just long enough to get 2 months of subs.

je-sus. i had held off watching this but binged the first 5 with a couple friends last friday (and a bottle of four roses)...and these are my most-mcu-friendly friends i have...and wow we hated it. absolutely the worst thing the mcu has released, even worse than things i think are more poorly made. just sooo fucking…

Give me a 3 minute compilation of all of Olivia Coleman’s lines and I’ll happily forget I ever watched the rest of this snooze-fest.

Keely owning and running a women’s team would be a fun watch. Especially when the show takes a dark turn after their plane crashes in the middle of nowhere in Canada and they struggle to survive........oops wrong show!

In the flash forward it seemed like he was back up to being assistant coach. But I appreciated that they didn’t immediately bring Nate back into the coaching team. After who he became as assistant coach at Richmond and manager at West Ham, he needed to go back to his roots and embrace just being Nate again so he could…

Yeah I was expecting more input from Nate, but for whatever reasons the writers decided against that.

My gripe with psychic plots in shows/films is that they’re always right about their predictions (however vague) and never seem to get them wrong.

OK, the tea leaves are out. There is no way Apple is going to let this go by without at least an attempt at a spinoff. Whether it goes the way of Frasier or AfterMASH remains to be seen. Some options:

* The women’s team. That is an absolute natural. Try to cast a similar bunch of goofballs. Keep Rebecca and Keeley and…

Well, they did use his old play to get the final goal. But yeah, it was kind of strange that the most active thing he did for the team was to make the box for fines. 

Kind of wild that the final game was against West Ham and Nate, the recent manager of West Ham, gave no tactical insights.