![]() ![]() Every time the actor playing Black Widow high-kicks across the stage, Clint gets all misty-eyed and uncomfortable. ![]() The father of three takes his kids on a trip to the Big Apple, starting with “Rogers: The Musical”: an Avengers-themed Broadway show that this actual Avenger can’t stomach. Yet when Renner’s Clint enters the picture, things do get confusing. And you will get hurt.” Marvel seems oddly proud of this knotty bit of exposition (it’s included in Episode 2’s “previously on” montage), but the convoluted guidance only illustrates two things: that Kate’s family is rich, and that “Hawkeye” is mistakenly deferential to coherence over complexity. “I know that young people think they’re invincible and rich people think they’re invincible, and you have always been both - so take it from someone who hasn’t been: You’re not. After an innocent bet involving an arrow and a clock tower results in a costly repair bill, her mother, Eleanor, scolds the 22-year-old Kate for acting like a reckless teen. Despite Hawkeye saving the kiddo with a well-timed exploding arrow, wayward blasts from alien warships resulted in the loss of dear old dad, and Kate vowed to protect her mother just like Hawkeye protected her.Ĭut to nearly 10 years later and Kate is a medal-winning fighter and decorated marksman, but she’s also adrift. attacked Manhattan, Kate was just an adolescent, living with her fighting parents (Vera Farmiga, an Oscar nominee for “Up in the Air,” and Brian d’Arcy James) in a massive Manhattan penthouse. Like “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” without the common courtesy to put its second star in the title, “Hawkeye” opens on Kate Bishop ( Hailee Steinfeld, an Oscar nominee for “True Grit” - and unjust snub for “The Edge of Seventeen”), then spends a majority of the pilot introducing her backstory, and builds to a predictably fateful meeting between the up-and-coming archer/fencer/karate kid and her childhood hero. Hailee Steinfeld in “Hawkeye” - Credit: Chuck Zlotnick / Disney+ 'The Beatles: Get Back' Review: A Riveting, Playful Look at the Band's Final Days 'The Book of Boba Fett' New Trailer: The Helmeted Bounty Hunter Returns to Tatooine In case its not clear from Disney’s marketing, the photo above, or this merry introduction, Jeremy Renner’s first standalone story as Clint Barton (aka Hawkeye) is also a holiday story, filled with steady snowfall, family bonding, and more gleaming evergreens than you can count. Avenger at its center, three Oscar nominees leading the cast (plus “Better Call Saul’s” Tony Dalton!), and a genre at least as popular as superheroes laced into its six-episode season. “ Hawkeye,” the fourth live-action MCU series to debut on Disney+, has all the trappings of a sought-after seasonal present: an O.G. Debating what’s gone right and wrong with Marvel’s transition to TV has followed a similarly long-winded journey, but it’s hard to argue every episode so far is indispensable fans will be able to follow the movies just fine if they skip the Disney+ originals, and what does get examined in each six-hour show hardly feels worthy of all that time - which leads us to today. “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” dive-bombed from a missed opportunity to outright infamy, before the overstretched “Loki” offered a few enamoring moments amid an onslaught of over-communication. ![]() After an intriguing start with “WandaVision,” Kevin Feige’s debut MCU entries for Disney+ have been erratic, at best. All I want for Christmas is for Marvel to stop treating its TV shows like filler. ![]()
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