Moon Knight’s director hints there may be more to the show than we think

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[Ed. note: The following contains spoilers for Moon Knight.]

Those who think they have a handle on how last week’s Moon Knight finale went down might want to think again. While the miniseries ended with some closure, as the conflicting Marc Spector and Steven Grant personalities (both played by Oscar Isaac) finally came to accept one another and defeat Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) as Moon Knight, there were still a healthy amount of cliffhangers to ponder. And, as series director Mohamed Diab would like fans to remember, plenty of ambiguity throughout.

Following the conclusion of Marvel’s ambitious new miniseries, Diab briefly spoke to Polygon about the finale’s twists, his hopes for future Moon Knight stories, and how the show might not be as clear-cut as some may think.

This interview has been edited for clarity and concision.

Polygon: Moon Knight is a stand-alone story, but you leave a lot of things open! How do you balance that, giving viewers a closed narrative arc while also leaving the final state of Marc/Steven in limbo?

Mohamed Diab: It was very important for us to see the world through someone’s eyes that has DID [dissociative identity disorder]. That kind of disorientation — it’s not a gimmick, those blinks. It’s not a gimmick in the action as much as this is how life feels — like you can just black out and discover that something did happen that you never thought you would do, that you were responsible for something that you didn’t do. So that was very important.

But I think after a while, people are going to consider [Moon Knight] a second-viewing show or a third-viewing show. There’s so many loops and so many layers. There’s a lot of things that you think, OK, I understand what’s real and what’s not. But