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Having tied itself in knots with multiverse convolutions that—as demonstrated by the underwhelming box-office performances of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels—audiences don’t like or want, Marvel tries to untangle itself with Echo, a five-episode TV series, premiering Jan. 9.
It’s the studio’s first release under a “Marvel Spotlight” banner which indicates that it’s less wrapped up in (or requires knowledge of) the larger MCU narrative. Such intentions, however, aren’t aligned with this small-screen affair’s execution, as it spends the first 28 minutes of its premiere melding original material with pre-existing Hawkeye snippets and a touch of Daredevil fan service to create a hodgepodge that underscores its inherent dependence on previous works. That notion, alas, is only reinforced by the tepid stand-alone story it subsequently tells—a third-rate snoozer that further waters down the once-mighty Marvel brand.
All five of its episodes debuting simultaneously on both Disney+ and Hulu, Echo concerns its title character (Alaqua Cox), aka Maya Lopez, a deaf Native American assassin who, at the end of Hawkeye, seemingly killed New York City baddie Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) with a bullet to the face. Thanks to inexplicable good fortune, he’s not dead, although Echo thinks he is as she leaves Manhattan on her trusty motorcycle for her native Oklahoma, where she grew up until her mom was killed in a car accident that cost Echo her lower right leg.
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