When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works.
OfMarvel’s 2024 line-up,Echo’s success is the hardest to predict.
Of that contingent,Echois objectively the rank outsider.
Marvel’s Echo makes good on its promise to be as brutal as possible.
Some might question the validity of that opinion whenEchohas at the time of writing no competition to speak of.
In Marvel’s increasingly convoluted multimedia franchise,Echo’s accessibility to newcomers is something to applaud.
Such approachability is a double-edged sword, though.
Echo reunites us (and Maya, left) with Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (center) fromDaredevilandHawkeye.
That said, episode 3’s main fracas is, in my view, far more barbaric and thrilling.
From what I watched, though, Maya comes across as an aggressive one-note individual.
Her morally misaligned character deserved to be more fleshed out by episode 3’s end credits.
Echois the first MCU TV series to authentically capture the Choctaw Native American experience.
Maya isn’t the only individual whose character development leaves something to be desired.
The duo’s humor-laced and candid chats are a marked departure from other tete-a-tetes.
If there’s one character and their interactions with Maya thatEchogets right, it’s Fisk.
Echoshows off Maya’s impressive range of close-quarters combat and marksmanship skills.
My verdict
Echois a mostly enjoyably Marvel show that breaks new ground for the Disney subsidiary.
Amid more pressing issues withEcho, I didn’t find them off-putting.
So, isEchoworth streaming?
It can occasionally be difficult to root for Maya Lopez in her standalone series.
For MCU diehards andDaredevilfans: absolutely.
For everyone else: that depends.
Anyone who just dips their toes into Marvel’s cinematic juggernaut every so often can probably skip it.
The fractious relationships between Maya and her blood relatives are half-baked.
It’ll also be available onHulustateside until the end of April.
Scenes between D’Onofrio’s Fisk and Cox’s Lopez are few in number in episodes 1 through 3.
