Wasted potential “Miss Marvel” tells about a teenage girl from Jersey, whose parents emigrated from Pakistan.
My main impression of this series is the difference in quality between the first and last series. If the first 2 episodes I really liked, then the last one looks like a children’s show with a weak script and a stupid action.
I want to start with merit. It is very interesting (and according to American Muslim viewers truthfully) to show the life of a teenage girl living in the Islamic community in the United States. This has not happened before in TV series, and it looks very fresh and fascinating, because you are immersed in an unfamiliar world and do it fascinating.
There's also a lot of cool visual finds. For example, when the main character rides a bicycle and fantasizes, all her fantasies come to life on the walls of the houses she rides past. Or when it is rewritten, all messages are embedded in elements of the environment (for example, an inscription on a sign or on a blanket). All this really looks original and fascinating. Similar emotions (but stronger) I experience when watching Sherlock, which the first (or one of the first) began to use the technique with the output of messages on the viewer’s screen.
Another of the interesting moments in this series, an important plot role is played by a real historical event, namely the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, which is organically woven into the plot and reveals the characters, allowing them to empathize.
But sadly, starting in Episode 3, the magic gradually fades away and Ms. Marvel looks duller and duller. Both from the point of view of action, staging fights, chases and the whole superhero movement, and from the point of view of dramatic heat. And to the last series from the enthusiasm of the first series nothing remains.
Even after that, I started watching the new season of Stranger Things, and in contrast, I noticed how boring the last episodes of Miss Marvel were. In very strange cases, camera movement, angles, mounting gluing, which create dynamics and work on the atmosphere, are well used. And Miss Marvel is too trivial. In itself, this is not a problem, but when you see how you can do cool, it is difficult not to compare.
In general, this is a controversial series that first pleases, and then leaves in disappointment.
6 out of 10
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