Moon Knight Episode 2 Review

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This review contains spoilers for episode 2 of Moon Knight.

Moon Knight has been framed as Marvel Studios’ first full-blown psychological thriller, with a hero who’s just as baffled as the audience when he blacks out and then comes to with a gun in his hand, covered in blood and surrounded by dead bodies. The first episode was at its strongest when it felt like no previous MCU project, indulging in startlingly gruesome violence and pulling no punches in its portrayal of mental illness.

After the end of the pilot veered into traditional Marvel territory with a CGI-filled fight scene, the opening of Moon Knight’s second episode – “Summon the Suit,” now streaming on Disney+ – mercifully puts the show back in psychological thriller mode. Minutes into the episode, Steven is facing criminal charges for “vandalizing a toilet,” and he can’t seem to prove that his bathroom brawl with an ancient Egyptian dog-monster actually happened.

Moon Knight Should Avoid A Regular Marvel Pitfall

The pilot episode put the spotlight solely on the mild-mannered Steven Grant persona and only featured a few brief glimpses of Marc Spector. In “Summon the Suit,” the audience gets to know Marc. His origins and his role in the current plot aren’t rolled out in one giant, unwieldy, mind-numbing exposition dump like the “He Who Remains” monologue in the Loki finale. Instead, it’s doled out in nice bite-size chunks throughout the episode with clues like his criminal record and the contents of his storage locker.

Moon Knight adheres to a few of the common problems with the MCU’s streaming content – the premiere episode is all setup, the humor doesn’t always land, etc. – but it also fixes some of the most egregious recurring issues. The show avoids Phase Four’s