Secret Invasion 2023 : Marvel Wows With Big Cast, Even Bigger Twists Review...
“Avengers: Infinity War.”
Even for the viewer, there’s a sense of unreliable narration and fun confusion about who to trust as the “good guys.” This is a true Fury story, but it’s clear the former leader of S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn’t have the same ferocity or swagger since the universe-shattering “Blip” of “Avengers: Infinity War.”
Samuel L. Jackson Excels in ‘Secret Invasion,’ Marvel’s Potent New Series: TV Review
Disney+. Six episodes (two screened for review).
After nearly a year, the Marvel Cinematic Universe returns to the small screen — and boy, was it worth the wait! The franchise's latest venture into the world of television is Secret Invasion, a gritty spy thriller that puts the deteriorating, yet still wildly popular, franchise back on the map with its mature tone and social commentary.
The limited series, which drops its first episode next Wednesday, June 21, 2023, leans into the mature themes and high stakes that made the MCU’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and even “Star Wars: Andor” so popular. And Secret Invasion is certainly Marvel’s most mature streaming series yet.
Based on the Marvel Comics storyline of the same name, Disney Plus's Secret Invasion brings fans to the present-day MCU, where Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) returns home and quickly discovers a faction of rogue shapeshifting Skrulls has infiltrated Earth. Fury, along with Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), must race against the clock to prevent an imminent Skrull invasion and save humanity.
As one of the most anticipated projects in phase five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), “Secret Invasion” exceeds expectations as a dark and gritty sci-fi espionage thriller with a hefty dose of alien conspiracy.
That’s where Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), the leader of a group of young Skrulls who help orchestrate terrorist-style attacks to sow chaos and anger amongst humans, comes in. In the first five minutes of the first episode – which was released early to promo the series – Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) secretly meets with Agent Prescod (Richard Dormer) in Moscow. There, he hears Prescod’s theories about Skrulls masquerading as different international groups in order to start wars between countries.
On the other side of the fight is Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), one of Fury’s oldest Skrull friends. In the decades since “Captain Marvel,” Talos has lost even more, including his daughter G’iah (Emilia Clarke) to Gravik’s band of rebels.
While Fury has been working on the space station S.A.B.E.R., Talos and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) have been trying to get a hand on the growing chaos wreaked by Gravik. And when Fury finally arrives back on Earth, neither is convinced he’s ready for a fight of this magnitude.
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