Upcoming American television Moon Knight TV Series

 Moon Knight review: Goofy, slapstick charm makes this new Marvel series more fun than many of its predecessors

Moon Knight is an upcoming American television miniseries created by Jeremy Slater for the streaming service Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is intended to be the sixth television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. Slater serves as head writer with Mohamed Diab leading the directing team. 

Moon Knight is scheduled to premiere on March 30, 2022, and will run for six episodes until May 4. It is part of Phase Four of the MCU.

The term “Golden Age of Television”, sometimes called “Peak TV”, has been used to describe the shift, in the new millennium, towards higher quality, more grown-up, small screen content. From The Sopranos to The Wire, Deadwood to Breaking Bad, television of the past two decades has often been emotionally, and visually, complex and mature. And, concurrently, the world of cinema became obsessed with franchises and sequels, superheroes and comic books, to the point where, last year, only one film out of the 10 highest grossing of the year was an original property. It was perhaps inevitable, then, that where cinema led, television would follow.

 

 

Led by Oscar Isaac as the besuited “fist of Khonshu”, it stands a good chance. The series starts with Isaac seemingly playing a British gift shop attendant, Steven Grant (though it’s no secret that Moon Knight’s real identity is an American ex-marine called Marc Spector). His London accent would give Dick Van Dyke nightmares and his dialogue is stuffed with idioms that seem to have been reverse engineered through Google Translate (“laters, gators!”). But the phoniness of Steven Grant will soon make sense, as the voices in his head take over. First, there’s “the little American man living inside me”, who sometimes appears in the mirror as Isaac in full, 

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Every superhero needs its supervillain, and here we have Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow, a religious zealot serving the will of Ammit, a nasty sounding demon with the head of a crocodile, the legs of a lion and the arse of a hippo. In the olden days, supervillains used to be simple. A clown who likes killing people. A bald billionaire who wants to rule the earth. Now they’re all Malthusian shock jocks spouting alt-right talking points. A baddie can no longer just be bad, nor a goodie unconditionally good. Ammit and Harrow are on a Minority Report-esque mission to stamp out evil before it happens. And you know what they say: you can’t make an omelette without murdering a few old ladies and innocent children.