Moon Knight Episode 6 Review
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Moon Knight episode 6.
Over a year into its official foray into streaming on Disney+, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has aired its latest season finale. Six finales in, there’s a clear pattern of Marvel struggling to stick the landing with the last episodes of its streaming shows. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier culminates in a tacked-on battle with a totally unearned redemption for John Walker. The Loki finale abandons all the show’s established story arcs in favor of an hour of exposition setting up the franchise’s next big bad. The What If...? finale takes all the most interesting multiversal variants from previous episodes and crams them all into a messy, disjointed battle sequence (the episode could’ve been called “What If… This Show Ends the Same Way Every Marvel Show Ends, With a Big Battle?”).
By comparison, for the most part, “Gods and Monsters” – the final episode of Moon Knight, now streaming on Disney+ – pulls off a satisfying ending. Credited to Jeremy Slater, Danielle Iman, Peter Cameron, and Sabir Pirzada, the finale’s script brings the story to a close without resorting to any detours or disappointing anticlimaxes.
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The last episode is less focused on the psychological thrills than its predecessors. It’s nowhere near as trippy or experimental or mind-bending as the last two asylum-set episodes. “Gods and Monsters” is more of a standard superhero actioner setting up an external conflict and then resolving it with violence. But, as far as standard superhero actioners go, it’s pretty darn thrilling.
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