Sure, any SHIELD agent could learn Russian,

Have you ever seen Night Monkey and Yelena at the same place at the same time? I know I haven’t.

We don't have Fisk yet.

If he’s actually behind ALL of the organized crime stuff, it would make sense to reveal him in a post-credits scene... maybe just a shot of him overlooking the city from his penthouse and either lamenting Hawkeyes success, or explaining how this was part of his plan.  Ideally it happens AFTER Clint’s arc is resolved…

Shut up

Maya’s mysterious kingpin of an uncle is still to be revealed

Shield/some kind of espionage feels more likely than a Widow (and not just because it’s hard to crank out kids as a Widow because of the.... You know, “surgery”). In that regard, it would make sense that she and Clint would meet in their line of work.

100%. For all the bellyaching about what is the MCU going to do post-OG Avengers, the ‘verse is in good hands with Yelena and Kate (and Katy Chen!). Getting actresses in the prime of their careers is a huge boon for Marvel Studios as far as rebuilding the foundation. If they’re the new “human face” Clint and Nat,…

Someones going to find it a lot harder to hitch-hike

Marvel has had some wonderful moments this year. Loki is my favorite Marvel Studios thing ever!
BUT... Yelena and Kate are quickly becoming my favorite Marvel characters. Their personalities are just a blast to watch. Black Widow is not my kind of movie but I loved every second of Yelena. And Kate is silly. It seems…

Sticking Cardellini in the thankless mom role is probably the MCU’s highest crime.

That was a great episode. But now it seems like there are a ton of threads to tie up in two episodes:

The root of the issue is that the Netflix shows, and Marvel Television in general, were not Feige’s true babies but were stuff outside his oversight, and post-Perlmutter power struggle, there’s a clearer ownership of Feige and the MS think tank to make a clear delineation that the truest of canon is the stuff with the…

I think the best, and most likely, way they’ll do it is just not directly reference the events of the Netflix shows, but not have anything the glaringly contradicts them either. Want to believe it’s the continuation of the same characters? You can! Want to believe they’re variants? You can!

Laura as an ex-Widow doesn’t match up on the timeline unfortunately... even if you liberally fudge things around. Maya’s note on Clint’s family said his oldest son is 16 years old and since he was blipped in 2018 that means he was born in 2002. So Laura and Clint must have been married somewhere in the ballpark of…

She’s good at sleuthing for clues.

I loved how Kate’s realization that Clint was Ronin didn’t destroy her image of him or some drama like that, but she instead did a lot of rationalization to justify it in her head. Honestly, far more realistic.

Hawkeye is my favorite MCU show so far. It’s down to earth, and most episodes have a great mix of action and character building.

This episode (the Big Talk about Natasha + the fight at the end) compares really well with the extended and awesome car chase from the previous episode that ended with Clint’s one-way…

A few theories and/or predictions: