Disney + Hulu | Marvel Studios' Echo | January 10th | Marvels First TV-MA Series

[TwoMisfits]

I finally watched Echo.  It was kinda horrible.  It's one step up from Secret Invasion, but that's about it.

 

Turning the character into a Walmart version of Black Panther vs showing her learning from Kingpin in her comic book physical mimcry style was such a mistake from the concept get go.  She could be so impressive with that mimicry (since once learned, she never loses the ability), and it was kinda just waved away as not important.  And it didn't help that to show the conversion of the power set away from mimicry to ancestor power, you got to see folks that I thought would have been better cast as Echo and who were better actors.

 

The show had pretty much zero stakes, went nowhere, had little super powered action, concluded in a non-satisfying way, and existed solely, it seems, to re-establish that Kingpin is alive and back in charge.

 

D+ for another D+ show is my grade.  They have to start doing better.