Show Guide

Ms. Marvel

2022 Disney+ Ended 46 min Comedy, Action, Science-Fiction

8our take /10

6.2IMDb /10

Ms. Marvel introduces viewers to Kamala, a 16-year old Pakistani American from Jersey City. An aspiring artist, an avid gamer, and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, she is a huge fan of the Avengers — and one in particular, Captain Marvel. But Kamala has always

Our Review

The MCU’s warmest Disney+ show: Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan — a Jersey City teenager, Avengers superfan, fanfic artist — gets powers of her own, and the show is a coming-of-age story first and a superhero story second. Vellani is a genuine discovery: her Kamala is unguarded joy, and the show’s Pakistani-American family life is the most warm, specific, lived-in family in the MCU.

The powers change (from comics-embiggening to cosmic-crystal energy) divides fans, but the visual language — the paint-splash art-project flourishes translating her inner fan-artist onto the screen — is the most stylistically alive the MCU has been on TV. The Partition flashback episode (the MCU’s first real history lesson) is the show’s prestige hour, and the finale lands everything a debut promises.

Verdict: Watch it. The best superhero debut of the Disney+ era.

Seasons

Ms. Marvel — Season 1

6 episodes

"Ms. Marvel," is a new series that introduces Kamala Khan—a 16-year-old Pakistani-American growing up in Jersey City. A great student, an avid…