Moon Knight’s Finale Forgot To Do One Important Thing
The following contains spoilers for Marvel’s Moon Knight.Marvel’s latest Disney Plus series, Moon Knight, concludes its first season with six episodes. While the season finale gives a satisfying conclusion to its big conflict, it does leave plenty of story threads open for the future. Fans are likely going to be wanting a second season, or at the very least, to see the characters again in another capacity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to satisfy those loose threads.
One character in particular that the audience is going to want to see more of is May Calamawy’s Layla El-Faouly. Created for the series, but inspired by Marc Spector’s comic book love interest Marlene Alraune, Layla becomes a big part of the Disney Plus show. It’s not incorrect to call her an equal protagonist in the events of the series to Steven Grant and Marc Spector. Unfortunately, the season finale forgot to give Layla a satisfying conclusion.
Moon Knight Episode 5 Easter Eggs
The audience might not actually meet Layla in the series premiere of Moon Knight, but her existence is teased in a pretty great way in that episode. Her name appears over and over again in the call log of a secret phone in Steven Grant’s apartment, intriguing the audience right off the bat before she makes her appearance in Episode 2.
From there, Layla appears as a confident and capable counterpart to Marc Spector. She’s there to help Steven through what he believes is him going mad, and she accepts his expertise in Egyptian history despite Marc not wanting them to even know one another. Layla proves herself just as capable in the field as both Marc and Steven very quickly, repeatedly saving their lives, holding her own against Arthur Harrow’s people, and having enough Egyptian
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