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The season one finale of Secret Invasion premiered on Disney+, and unfortunately for Marvel, it wasn’t even bad enough to go out with a whimper, as it was so terrible that it went out in a ball of fire.
The sixth episode of Secret Invasion currently has a 13% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, which not only makes it the lowest-rated episode of any MCU series but the lowest-rated entry in the entire 15-year history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Needless to say, Marvel fans are down bad following yet another disappointing addition to the once proud, nearly flawless franchise.
— Post Cred Pod (@PostCredPod) July 27, 2023
Use AI Art for your intro, get what you deserve. https://t.co/XJg12KZsjx pic.twitter.com/XMHARradnK
— TRAFON(s Backup Account) (@RiseFallNickBck) July 27, 2023
marvel putting up james harden second round playoff series shooting numbers for four seasons now https://t.co/evAlaYUaVK
— alex (@steven_lebron) July 27, 2023
Marvel’s Andor https://t.co/9bEzsDi7QO
— John Stewart Green Lantern (@LanternJS) July 26, 2023
What makes the failures of Secret Invasion even more frustrating is the fact that Marvel both spent north of $200 million on it and assembled an all-star cast that included the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Olivia Colman, Ben Mendelsohn, Kingsely Ben-Adir, Emilia Clarke, and more. There was also that entirely self-generated AI-created opening credits controversy, which could have been easily avoided if the studio had even a shred of awareness.
Most MCU fans seem to agree that the studio needs to shut down its television production until it can figure out what it is they’re actually trying to make, as the experiment — other than Wandavision, Loki, and random bits and pieces of various shows — clearly isn’t working so far.
Doing a super spy show where anyone can be an alien and the aliens are bad but also the aliens are displaced refugees BUT ALSO sometimes the xenophobes are right and in the end none of it matters bc you have to be able to see The Marvels without having seen this…money well spent https://t.co/B3hXZg3WzY
— Jake Cole (@ThatJakePC) July 26, 2023
They gotta pull the plug on these shows bruh it ain’t working https://t.co/Jrmscy0Tn8
— Red’s Shadow (@RedLReviews) July 26, 2023
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s prospects for the rest of 2023 aren’t looking much better, as the recently released trailer for The Marvels was met with an overwhelmingly lukewarm response.
hen there’s season two of Loki, which would be highly anticipated if not for the complications surrounding its star Jonathan Majors, who is set to begin a trial relating to domestic assault charges in early August. There’s also the expected release of Echo in November, which is based on a character that even most hardcore Marvel fans don’t care about.
All of these series were greenlit under previous Disney CEO Bob Chapek, who was in charge of the company as it launched Disney+ in recent years. Now that the streaming era seems to be subsiding a bit, Marvel’s over-commitment to their television project has become apparent, and will likely be corrected in the coming years, with current CEO Bob Iger already confirming they’re going to be ramping down the production of Marvel and Star Wars content.