Moon Knight Episode 5 Review

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The Disney Plus series Moon Knight has never really had much in common with the rest of the catalog of Marvel television shows. It didn't tie into the fight against Thanos and the aftermath of that fight. It's entirely possible that Moon Knight doesn't really exist in the MCU. Obviously, the show is part of the larger franchise, but the Disney Plus series could exist entirely outside of everything that happened in every movie and show that came before it. It's rather hard to tell exactly where the show lands because there simply isn't a mention of where it might be. Moon Knight isn't an Avenger or anything close to it at this part of his life. That despite the fact that he appears to have had quite the life and career when. the show kicks off.

While the lack of tie-ins to other Marvel shows makes Moon Knight stand out, there's also the fact that there are times when the program simply does not act or look like a superhero show. That was certainly the case with the series' penultimate episode. Most superhero shows would have spent the entire time having the hero gear up for a massive battle against the big bad. Perhaps there would have been a training montage. Perhaps there would have been a couple of scenes where the badly injured hero would be healing up and getting everything ready for the big trial at the end. Instead, this show decided to solve another problem first and did it without more than a minute of actual action.

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Instead of the hero getting ready for a big fight, this episode of Moon Knight was all about Marc and Steven working through the events that caused them to exist alongside one another. In order to do that the show puts the characters back in the same