Ryan Shoots First: Secret Invasion (Ep6) “Home”
And with that, another chapter in the MCU is written with the finale of Secret Invasion. The finale felt a little rushed honestly. Considering the show moved rather slow it felt like some of this would have been better served in the penultimate episode so this episode could breathe a bit.
We do get a large end fight with power levels that are pretty massive and can shake up the order in the MCU of strongest beings. What is the strongest part of this episode is the final confrontation between Fury and Gravik. We’ve seen the two interact on the battlefield but with so much implied history between the two it took too long for them to have a heart-to-heart. And in this scene, Kingsley eats it up. By far his strongest moment of the season. All of this is slightly undercut by an eventual reveal but the scene still is strong.
What hasn’t worked for me over the season is the relationship between Fury and his wife Priscilla. In smaller doses, it would have been fine and they had some good scenes early on to humanize and show the stakes for Fury but it felt like after that they had a slightly worse version of the same conversation 3 or 4 more times. I feel like after the strong moment in episode 3 they could have done some different things to establish that relationship. It gets a satisfying conclusion just felt like we went in circles a bit. The show did some things right and puts the characters in some interesting positions but it just seems to exist. Some highs and not any brutal lows just nothing to get excited about. It is carried by its stellar cast, Mendelsohn, Ben-Asir, Clarke, and especially Coleman all make the most of what they have and have some stand-out moments. The show feels like it either needed to be a movie or a longer series to pay off the things it was trying to do. 6 episodes put it in this limbo phase where it needed to tell more than a movie but didn’t have enough time to do it right.
I would say I enjoyed the series, it somewhat limped to the finish line after a strong start but justified itself and was a fun spy story that dives deeper into an MCU OG. It also introduces some new players including one who should be a big feature going forward in Olivia Coleman. Now that Fury has finished this journey we head into his role in The Marvels this fall and the next phase of the MCU story.
Observations
- How has Skrull Shooter McGaven not been in this more?
- That’s a tough opening shot
- That’s a very weird relationship
- I was really hoping it was Olivia Colman who sniped those guys.
- Interestingly, the opening only changed for that episode.
- Skrull Rhody is so annoying
- Seriously if I were the President and anyone was that insistent about anything I would assume they had bad motives.
- There she is!
- Great plan, die before you even get there.
- It took too long for these two to be in the same room.
- Strong scene here.
- Boy it’s a shame we’ve seen all those Marvels trailers with Fury in them.
- So Gaia is like one of the strongest in the MCU now.
- With these powers how would this fight ever end.
- I like how no one needs answers haha
- Yes more Olivia please
- Ok there goes Shooter
- No post credits??
