Since 2006 I have not lived Marvel Studios such a bad year, so marked by box office failures in cinemas and audiences on television and by unfortunate accidents. The second season of Loki, released on Disney+, has been greatly tarnished by Jonathan Majors’ assault sentence. She has also stumbled the ambitious Secret Invasion, which has been considered by many to be the worst of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) since its inception. To try to put a poultice on the sangria, the company premieres on January 10 Echoa miniseries with which to change course.
To begin with, the first novelty is that the five episodes that make up the season can be seen at once on the same day, breaking the strategy of releasing one installment a week, with which they had worked until now. What does not change is the germ of the series, which continues the rescue resource of a secondary character from another production to give it more hours of play, in this case taking up the plot of Hawk Eyewhich featured as a villain Maya López (Alaqua Cox), a deaf and Native American woman who was mentored by Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio), Daredevil’s great enemy.
In Echo, Maya López is back home, trying to confront her past and her legacy to move forward while being hunted by Wilson Fisk’s criminal empire. A few months ago, the appearance of the trailer surprised many skeptics, perhaps because the temptation was to see the series as a return to the Daredevil universe that was created on Netflix. In addition to the villain, the actor who played Matt Murdock there, Charlie Cox, also returns. This escapes Marvel, of course, which brought back the actor for the MCU in small roles and cameos as a trial and error for the ongoing production of Daredevil: Born Again. Now it seems that Echo It also exists to warm up your arrival.
However, the appearance of the Dan Defender has been kept secret, with only a few glimpses of struggles, such as one that the creator and director of the series, Sydney Freeland, has explained in an interview in Screen Rant. Among other things, Rant reveals that that fight from the first episode with the iconic red-suited vigilante will last six minutes and that Maya López’s character “enters that scene as a teenager and comes out of it as a cold-blooded murderer. I wanted the audience to be able to see that transformation in real time and try to put themselves in her place and experience things as they were.” “she perceives them. We knew it was ambitious, especially in a television schedule, but we wanted to take that step.”
The reference to the schedule implies another of the great novelties of this MCU, and that is that Echo It will receive the TV-MA rating, which is the strictest a series can receive in the United States. That means you have graphic violence, explicit sexual activity or indecent language. Superhero series exclusively for adults are nothing new, nor foreign to Marvel, but no project under the roof of Disney had dared, until now. The classification has triggered the attention of fans, to such an extent that posters and advertisements are focusing on this openness towards violence, as a form of official marketing.