User Reviews

This series, about Fury and Talos who try to stop the Skrulls who have infiltrated the highest spheres of the universe, is good!

Even though it was a good watch, I personally have a lot of complaints about it. The dialogues lack flow and stable structure, the cinematography is frequently poor, the editing is out of place, and the CGI and lighting are mixed. However, I think the strongest part is the beginning; Episode 1: Resurrection and Episode 2: Promises. They are unpredictable and engaging and set a high bar for the rest of the series. Unfortunately, the episodes get worse in average and the finale is disappointing because it's straightforward and weakly executed. Anyway, as said, the strong beginning really makes you want to watch the rest, which to me makes it a worthy experience, but barely.

Intriguing start, this series falters with awkward dialogue, inconsistent execution, and underwhelming visuals. Despite a promising beginning, the series stumbles mid-season and delivers a predictable, poorly executed finale. Still, the initial pull makes it a worthy watch.

I consider this series to have much more potential, I know that Marvel is only trying to give us the bases to know a little about the characters, however they are bringing out and bringing out thematic characters that at the moment have not been able to be incorporated into the MCU. It was good that they showed us a little about Nick Fury's life outside of Avengers, however they fell short, as well as that they talked about all the changes that the characters had due to the blip. It deals with a very current topic about migration, how these people feel without having a home to belong to, the influence of governments and policies, about the "strongest race", about genocide, among others. I knew from the beginning that Rhodey couldn't be that bad. Emilia Clarke and Olivia Colman are good entries to the MCU, hoping that they will be able to explore their stories more, since one is left with doubts that G'iah is just as powerful as Captain Marvel, also that now the government has declared war on the Skrulls. Just as they show us that there is more to tell about Nick Fury and we want to know more about his story with Priscilla.

As a huge Marvel fan, I can't believe how badly written and executed this show really is. They started with truly talented actors, solid source material, and Disney level production value...and then I guess the House of Mouse ran out of money so they had to leave the writing to unpaid interns who clearly had second jobs to get to.

SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL EPISODE, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED:

The whole show revolves around shape shifting aliens who have slowly infiltrated the highest levels of the world's governments, but didn't bother to take the positions of the actual leaders who can order the nuclear strikes they so desperately want. Meanwhile, facing the literal possibility of humanity's annihilation, Nick Fury refuses to summon a single Avenger to help him stop this plot and instead chooses to run around armed with nothing more than a pistol and a can-do attitude. Two truly great characters from the MCU get killed off in incredibly boring ways to illustrate just how bad the antagonist really is (RIP Talos and Maria Hill, both taken far too soon and with no fanfare whatsoever). And if all that wasn't groan-inducing enough, the leader of the Skrulls manages to get his hands on some sort of technology that can replicate the powers of any of the Avengers or their enemies as long as samples of their DNA have been collected (because that not only exists, but shouldn't be explained at all and wouldn't have come in handy literally hundreds of times throughout Phases 1-4). But wait, there's more, because using said machine also allows the receiver of the superpowers to instantly wield every one of them at once without ever practicing. The situation is saved after Sam Jackson and Olivia Coleman (who is fantastic by the way, and honestly one of the only bright spots in this show) manage to take out all of POTUS's protective detail with knockout darts and expose the Skrull who's impersonating Col. Rhodes (even though the president knows Skrulls exist but never considered that the one main guy on his staff telling him he needs to start nuclear Armageddon might be one of them). The series ends with G'iah walking around with more powers than anyone else in the MCU, the president alerting the public to the threat of shape-shifters and essentially inciting public unrest and countless random assassinations across the globe, and Nick Fury and his Skrull wife walking off into the metaphorical sunset looking surprisingly pleased with themselves for a "job well done". Oh, and it's heavily implied that Fury and his wife have never even kissed in her original Skrull form, because no guy who has a shape-shifting wife would ever want her to switch it up every now and then (big eye-roll).

Disney should be ashamed of themselves for fumbling what could've been a really entertaining series.

This series is something I would consider as wasted potential. It was so good the 5 episodes and then the series reached its climax by the last episode, but making g'iah a super human with powers like captain marvel just was not it. And the ending where nick fury kissed his wife was so rushed. They should've instead included a cameo to end the series with a big BANG and paved a way for a spin off or a continuation of the series.

But I am a big marvel fan and enjoyed the whole series. I look forward to watching nick fury in the marvels movie with captain marvel, Ms marvel and photon. Theo acioly.

MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD!

I'm going to go straight to the point about this series, because it has so many flaws. First, killing important characters do not make a series worth watching. Secondly, characters development were really suck to the point that I thought that AI wrote the script. And last but not least, I know Fury was (or is still) a secret agent, but if everything has to be about double crossing and backstabbing, well you really need to check your options about the story. Because it has been done in Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier.

Another thing: do Skrulls know each other when they're in shapeshifting mode?! Or not?! Because if not, then millions of year of evolving in their home planet Skrull, so that they now become a shapeshifting species, does really raise a question about how they can recognize each other. Why am I asking this?! Because in the final act, the villain DID NOT recognize his own species, that's why!

Lazy Writing 6/10

Note: don't ruin Nick Fury's character please, that ending's Casablanca style was really bland.

Of course there are tons of fan boys praising this as amazing but it's way below average. There is tons of back story as they have to explain aliens and shape shifting and a rebellion and Nick Fury. Ok, but after all of this is done what is the meat of the story? Not much.

Some silly fighting here and there and Nick Fury has two helpers to assist him in bringing down a group of terrorists with 3 backpack bombs in a crowd. No other help, and no over watch? No special ability characters besides a shape shifter?

Of course the bombs go off as nobody can seem to catch them in time. Very annoying.

But even after you get through this pilot episode and reflect it doesn't amount to much of an interesting story. 3/10 for a unique story line that fails fast.