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Ladies and gentleman, the weekend. Well, not quite. Friday. It’s Friday. Which means it’s Popculturology day. Strap on your Apple Vision Pro goggles (watch out for that charging brick), and let’s dive into this edition.
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I finally found a window to watch Echothis week. I’d heard good things about the Disney+ show, and it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Based on how much effort had been put into presenting Echoas a show full of violence — it’s TV-MA! — I was pleasantly surprised to discover a story about family and community and legacy.
When it comes to Echo’s place in the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe, I really don’t understand the Marvel Spotlight branding. Introduced with Echo, the Marvel Spotlight branding is supposed to signal to viewers that a show can be watched as a standalone without having to have watched anything else in the ever-expanding MCU. Which is a nice idea, but why was Echo given this branding? In the first episode alone, the show reuses scenes from Hawkeye(which come with a connection to Avengers: Endgame themselves) and reintroduce Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin and Charlie Cox as Daredevil(two characters who debuted in a Netflix show, were brought back in previous Disney+ shows and will be seen again in an upcoming Disney+ show).
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