After She Hulk, various fans of mcu were looking forward to the next series of this universe, secret invasion which was described by critics as a much more serious and mature spy thriller than it Marvel we are used to Now that the first episode of the series has already landed on Disney+ Let’s talk about what he left us.
First of all, let’s remember that secret invasion is going to show us the return to Earth of Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) to deal with a clandestine invasion by a faction of Skrulls. Next to Everett Ross (Martin Freeman), Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), Fury Race against time to thwart the impending invasion and save humanity. If you haven’t seen the first episode of the series yet watch out for spoilers that follow.
Directed and produced by Ali Selim, Secret Invasion stays true to its shapeshifter theme and tries to incorporate it even in its intro and opening credits, where we see how the characters and places in the series become increasingly green, like the Skrulls. This entire introductory sequence was designed by Method Studios using artificial intelligence. As he told him Selim to Polygon all of that plays into the themes of the show.
“When we got in touch with the AI vendors, that was part of it, it just came out of the identity of the world. Skrull shape-shifting, you know? Who did this? Who is it?said the director. Selim clarified that, althoughdon’t really understand” how the AI works, that doesn’t stop me from being fascinated with certain similarities between this technology and the series. “We would talk to them about ideas and themes and words, and then the computer would turn off and do something. And then we could change it up a bit using words, and it would change.” In addition, the director mentioned that he was excited about what Method Studios brought to the program and that experience felt “exploratory and inevitable, exciting and different”.
Now, if there is something that the first episode of secret invasion is that the “rebel” faction of Skrullsleadered by Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir), she’s already pretty organized and has her conspiracy to infiltrate government systems around the world underway. This is why, after a series of global attacks framed as terrorist activity, Talos and Maria Hill they call Fury to get involved. Let’s remember that the former director of SHIELD was in the space station of the SABER organization
beware that from here below, there may be strong spoilers of the episode
From the moment he returns to Earth, we see that Fury he’s out of shape and doesn’t have the mobility or agility he had before the blip. From what is repeated more than once in the episode, that event of Avengers: Infinity War changed it quite a bit and it’s still not ready for what’s coming with the Skrulls. However, Fury feel indebted to Talos and wants to collaborate.
What happens is that Gravik and his entire faction are wasting no time. Yes ok Fury, Hill and Talos they think they are one step ahead because they know that the Skrull rebels plan to put bombs in a public square in Moscow, the thing is not like that. The help of the daughter of Talos, G’iah (Emilia Clarke), not much use and Gravik detonate the bombs right in front of Fury. In the midst of chaos Fury He tries to stop him but chasing a shapeshifter is not easy.
But that’s not the worst part of the episode. If you are one of those who was happy to see again Mary Hill in action and learn a little more about his character, we hope that the 55-minute episode of secret invasion have been enough.
While trying to help the injured in the area, Hill seems to relax when seeing Fury safe…until his old boss and friend unexpectedly shoots him. However, that was just the same Gravik posing as Nick Fury. After this attack, the leader of the Skrull rebels disappears into the crowd and the real Fury runs next to Mariawho collapses in the street.
Hill, who does not understand what had really happened, cannot believe that his own boss had shot him. Because of this, just before dying, she tells him, amazed and shocked, to Fury: “Was you”. Although many of us wanted to see this character in more than one episode, it seems that this is the end of Maria Hill and Cobie Smulders in it mcu. Let’s remember that she was part of Marvel from “Avengers” (2012) and who participated in almost a dozen animated and live-action projects in the franchise.