Moon Knight Episode 1 Review
It's been over three months since Marvel fans last got a new Disney Plus series, with the Hawkeye finale streaming on December 22. The latest offering, Moon Knight, arrives on March 30, and there has been plenty of speculation about how this series will be different than anything that has come before it. With a strong cast and anticipation that Moon Knight will be a major shift for Marvel, it's safe to say that the premiere episode delivers in some ways, but falls short in others.
The opening scene, featuring Ethan Hawke's Arthur Harrow, is suitably chilling (and may make some viewers squeamish). The imagery is nicely juxtaposed by Bob Dylan's «Every Grain Of Sand,» a fitting piece of music considering how much of a role Egypt and its history play in Moon Knight's story. However, not much else in this episode quite lives up to the style of these opening moments.
Moon Knight Should Avoid A Regular Marvel Pitfall
The main focus of the episode is, of course, Steven Grant (aka Mark Spector aka Moon Knight, played with great nervous energy by Oscar Isaac). Grant is an overqualified museum gift shop employee, showing at several points that he knows much more about Egyptian mythology and history than his prickly boss. Grant is also suffering from memory lapses which he attributes to a sleep disorder (he keeps a lock around his ankle, sand around his bed, and tape on the door to monitor if he leaves his apartment).
Isaac does an excellent job with this character, and though he has gone on the record to talk about his intentionally dodgy British accent, it does add an air of charm to Grant, who soon finds himself in deep trouble, being pursued by men with guns in what appears to be the Austrian mountainside. Here, Grant first
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