I was someone who enjoyed the Netflix Marvel series, with their focus on street-level heroes in New York City, and this is the closest Marvel Studios has come to that. At the same time, those were really dark and serious at times and this show is thankfully a lot lighter.
He's really good at playing the working stiff superhero. This whole affair is a massive inconvenience to him, keeping him from the family that the Blip had already kept him from for five years, and that colors so many elements of his performance.
She was my dream casting for that role. Whether the scheduling issues surrounding "Dickinson" made it look like she wasn't going to close her deal, I was really bumped. She's got the comedic timing for the role, without undercutting Kate's intelligence. She's also tall and athletically built, so that when she's running around in purple spandex with a bow it doesn't look completely ridiculous.
I sort of pieced together who she was from what the tidbits I'd learned following the show's production, but I don't think you needed to know who she was for the cliffhanger to work. The behavior of these big burly eastern European gangsters around and in relation to her makes it clear that she's important and dangerous.
It was a delicious send up of all these pop culture-driven musicals in recent decades, and Clint Barton is perhaps the least receptive audience for that kind of product. It didn't help that they got things just right enough to trigger his PTSD over what happened to Black Widow on Vormir.
I think he has to, but I also think that he won't make it to his family until the last possible moment.
The writing and quality of the production are head and shoulders above "Agents of SHIELD" and "Agent Carter", though.
When Kate asks why, I loved the flashes back to all of the massive explosions that he was in the immediate vicinity of.
I really loved the score for the first two episodes, which reminded me a bit of John Williams's score for Home Alone in the way that it wove in traditional Christmas songs.
Yes, the title sequence for the first episode did a good job of catching us up on the thirteen years between the opening sequence during the Battle of New York and the "present day" of 2025 in the MCU.
I loved how the slow motion captured just how easy it was for Clint. He wades into the middle of an absolute maelstrom of swinging swords and not only doesn't get hit but in fact tags multiple opponents with each movement of his own sword.
Shocking!
I'm thinking that too as some of her mother's reactions gives me an impression that something "dark" is within her.
That seems very possible but it also seems almost too easy/obvious.
Also, we know from the opening scene set in 2012 that the Bishop family was having money problems. Even assuming insurance covers damage from alien invasion, losing her husband and having half the family penthouse destroyed couldn't have helped the family's precarious financial situation.
