Summon the Suit

The entire team over at Moon Knight deserve a round of applause.

With fantastic scripts, gorgeous visuals and a masterful display of acting by Oscar Issac, this MCU show has the potential to become one of the best.

Apart from Isaac's acting i hated the show in the first episode, i thought the cgii was bad and the time jumps silly but then i decided to give the second episode a chance and wow this one was amazing on its own. Everything worked for me and even tho i don't take Marvel seriously for a while now this was actually very good. The camera work was mind blowing and that end credits carried the quality weight of this episode. Idk if this show will be good or not but this episode will stay good regardless of what happens next. Quality and stylish work!

The tension in this episode is astounding!

Much like the pilot episode, it makes you feel as lost and confused as Steven; this episode successfully utilised the confusion to build tension!

Really good and tense episode, not once did I think to check the progress bar. Easy 9/10!

Summon the Suit is a strong second episode to the great opener that was The Goldfish Problem, and it delves deeper into the chaotic mind of Steven Grant.

This episode has basically everything, character study, great performances, good storytelling, and action.

I absolutely loved the conversation between Steven and Arthur about their beliefs and morals, something that I think was needed more in Infinity War. The villain's motivation is like the plot of The Winter Soldier and what Hydra wanted to do, but the conversation around it is much better.

And I really like this protagonist/villain dynamic we have here, and the villain has a fair share of screen time too. The "villain" of the story, Arthur, is of course really familiar with Marc's boss, and it gives another layer of depth to their relationship.

Summon the Suit also has another great reveal that I didn't expect to see this early and I'm really thankful that they don't waste time showing us what our protagonist can really do.

We have a really nice addition to the cast of characters that we have already seen in the promos, and she's a really good character and has a great dynamic with Steven.

I have to mention, that this is how to do a protagonist! This is how you write a great, flawed, and actually interesting character as a protagonist, something that Disney Star Wars has no idea how to, as we have seen with Rey and recently Boba Fett.

Our protagonist isn't exactly a righteous and flawless man who doesn't do the bidding of a questionable authority like Captain America, he's a man who has killed people - who might have deserved it - and will do it again because if he doesn't, he'll lose what he loves.

All in all, this show has been really great so far and fun to watch, and this episode does a great job of establishing our trouble-minded protagonist and the antagonist further and has great dialogue and good action.

And I like that Kevin Feige just gave the helms to this actual Egyptian director to depict his country's culture like what it is and not some American guy whose only knowledge of the Middle East is just putting a yellow filter on the screen.

Also, I gotta mention that I don't really like Arabic as a language, even though mine (Farsi) is really close to it but I kinda cannot stand it, but I gotta admit that end-credit Arabic rap was lowkey fire! The Armenian Genocide Really Happened and Taiwan Is a Country.

This episode is weaker than its predecessor with is being very exposition heavy. That being said I still really enjoyed this episode and thought for the most part it was well written and well paced and finally seeing some Moonknight action was fun. Although I haven't read the comics so I can't talk about the mr knight part I enjoyed his action scene too. Sadly one of my biggest gripes with both the episodes is the cgi, from the purple energy coming from the ground to the monster it just looked so cheap and didn't feel real. Konshu at points even looked bad. But the cinematography makes up for it with some amazing shots, but yet again not on the same level as episode 1. One thing that I really loved about this episode was Stevens paranoia and his confusion ,that we saw in episode 1, is still being continued here and it's really interesting to see how Layla was added into the mix. Overall I would say this is a really good episode but has some set backs.