Secret Invasion
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Our Review
The MCU’s biggest wasted swing: a Skrull invasion thriller that should have been the franchise’s paranoia epic, who’s been replaced?, and instead became a muddy miniseries about Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, doing his best with material about a veteran spy who failed the Skrulls he promised a home) chasing a radicalized faction. Olivia Colman’s unhinged MI6 agent Sonya Falsworth is the bright spot, she’s having the time of her life while the plot sags.
The problems are structural: the premise (a million Skrulls among us) is resolved with a shrug (the G’iah super-Skrull finale, resolving an infiltration thriller with an energy blast fight), the Rhodey reveal gets cheapened immediately, and the dour tone can’t find the story underneath. The AI-generated opening credits finished the job the writing started. The franchise’s lowest rated entry.
Verdict: Skip it, the “watch this not that” of the MCU. Watch Andor if you want the paranoid thriller register done right.
