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This is one of the stranger reviews I’ve written in my career, for myriad reasons. There’s the fact that Echo has ended up as a sort of sign-off for the post-Endgame era of the MCU, which is all sorts of ridiculous considering the titular character is just a cool deaf supporting villain from the Hawkeye series and has no connections that we know of to anything or anybody in the rest of the MCU. It’s not a bad show by any means, but it is just another Marvel series that tells a pretty standard Marvel story in the standard Marvel visual style.
Or at least that’s how it is for the first three episodes, which was all Disney supplied for this review, even though all episodes are dropping at once on Disney+ and Hulu at the same time when we’re allowed . Ultimately, that makes this a review of half of the show.
Echo follows Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), the Darth Maul-type villain character from Hawkeye who shot and presumably killed the Kingpin when she found out that the criminal mastermind had arranged to have Hawkeye kill her father. After opening with a montage about how she and her father fell in with Kingpin, the show picks up with Maya, who is Native American, leaving New York and heading back to her hometown in Oklahoma, where she has plans to start a hostile takeover of Kingpin’s criminal empire. “It’s time for a queen,” she signs to her old pal, who she’s trying to recruit for her coup attempt.
