The Town of Odyssey

First off, I found the trailer here to be very misleading. From the commercial here in this topic, I initially assumed the show would be a weird psychopath story of a crazy guy. It looked pretty dark and creepy, and the first episode does indeed live up to that at first. But then as you progress through it, everything is explained, and it turns out that what is seen in the first episode is not as strange as it seemed. Just thought I’d put that out there, because I was very put off by the trailers for this and nearly didn’t watch.

The idea of multiple identities in a superhero is quite interesting. The characters Marc Spector and Steven Grant were a fascinating combo and Oscar Isaac does an excellent job portraying both of them. My favorite part is where Steven Grant summons a literal business suit to fight in, which I thought that was pretty funny. The hippo god was humorous as well. I’m not a huge fan of all the spiritual/mythical stuff that is brought in here with Egyptian gods and spells and whatever those zombie priests were doing human sacrifices (that was disgusting ), but it certainly was an interesting battle of ideologies between Konshu and Ammit. The villains here were interesting. Harrow was notable, but I found Ammit to essentially be another version of Thanos, emptying the world with his power and philosophy.

As a whole, I’d say Moon Knight lives up to the Marvel standards and the other Marvel shows. It’s got an engaging storyline, good villains, great fight scenes, intriguing mid-credits scene and all the stuff. As a whole, I found it to be slightly darker than the other shows, but that may just be me; it’s not too bad.