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Fran Ruiz

Secret Invasion season 1 episode 1 review: Marvel finds the right spy thriller tone, but the pulse isn’t there

Scene from the Marvel TV show Secret Invasion. Here we see Secret Invasion season 1 episode 1-Nick Fury sitting on a couch.

It’s been a while since She-Hulk ended its season 1 run on Disney Plus last October, with all Marvel Studios releases since then being either one-off specials or theatrical chapters. Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is also done now, and Phase 5 began unimpressively with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, but wowed audiences worldwide with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

The first T.V. show of 2023 and Phase 5 is Secret Invasion, a very loose adaptation of the famous comic book crossover storyline written by Brian Michael Bendis and released in 2008. While Marvel Studios might be saving some surprises for later in the season, this iteration of Secret Invasion is keeping the superheroes aside and instead focusing on the ground-level organizations that are trying to hold the world together after the Blip. That includes Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, who has been spending too much time away from Earth…

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