Ms. Marvel Episode 5 Review
Warning! Spoilers ahead for episode 5 of Ms. Marvel.
Like Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel has used its fifth episode to fill in the previously unseen backstory of the title character’s powers. But, whereas “Asylum” was the strongest episode of Moon Knight by far, “Time and Again” might be Ms. Marvel’s weakest installment to date. There are some pacing issues in the fifth episode of Ms. Marvel, but that would be forgivable if “Time and Again” didn’t miss out on the show’s greatest strength: Iman Vellani’s infectiously enthusiastic performance as Kamala Khan. Bizarrely, Kamala is nowhere to be seen for the first half of the episode.
On the plus side, “Time and Again” deals with some interesting themes and historical context. Like the recent action-packed gem RRR, this episode uses speculative genre antics to explore the real-world horrors of Britain’s colonization of India. It also resolves the show’s poignant, prevalent theme of conflict between mothers and daughters. Kamala’s ongoing tensions with Muneeba are contrasted with Muneeba’s relationship with her own mother. Like Kamala, Muneeba used to rebel against her mother. Now, she has the hindsight to see that her mother was just looking out for her. Kamala is coming to that realization on her own. Unfortunately, after the Kamala-less first half of the episode, this resolution is crammed into the second half where it doesn’t have enough room to really breathe and develop.
Ms. Marvel Is The Best MCU Show So Far
There’s still a chance that next week’s finale can pull it all together, but five episodes in, Ms. Marvel feels somewhat aimless and meandering. It started off as a high school show whose teenage protagonist happened to have superpowers, but it’s since been jumping all over
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