TV
ECHO
Alaqua Cox means business as the MCU’s newest hero.
MARVEL’S LATEST SMALL-SCREEN OFFERING IS DARK, DEADLY — AND DEAF
★★★
OUT NOW (DISNEY+) / EPISODES VIEWED 2 OF 5
SHOWRUNNER Dario Scardapane
CAST Alaqua Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, Chaske Spencer, Zahn McClarnon, Tantoo Cardinal
PLOT Months after shooting Kingpin (D’Onofrio), Maya Lopez (Cox) heads home to Oklahoma to try and take over his criminal empire.
WITH ECHO, MARVEL launches ‘Spotlight’: a new collection of projects that, according to them, require no prior knowledge of the MCU to be enjoyed, to reduce the sheer amount of watching needed to understand what’s going on in any given film or show. Whether that strategy is successfully executed here, however, is up for debate.