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The latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Echo, releases Tuesday, January 9, on both Disney+ and Hulu. That’s a first for a Marvel Studios extension of the MCU. It’s not the only first the show is achieving, though. It’s also Marvel’s first TV-MA program.
For those that don’t track TV ratings, TV-MA technically means the show is “designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17,” according to the FCC. It’s the Rated-R of television. Thus far, the shows have either been rated TV-PG or, in some instances like Loki, TV-14. For Echo, though, which stars Alaqua Cox in the role of the deaf leader of the Tracksuit Mafia, the boundaries are being pushed into TV-MA territory. That puts it firmly in the same territory as the Marvel/Netflix shows from a few years back.
Given that Vincent D’Onofrio is reprising his role as Kingpin from both Hawkeye and Marvel’s Daredevil on Netflix, the darker and more violent tone makes sense. However, it turns out dipping into the darker side of the MDCU had less to do with Kingpin than Echo/Maya Lopez, herself.
