The Tomb

I am very much confused as to what just happened and that ending threw me for a loop. Like seriously. What did I just watch? I expected some clarity in an end-credit scene but that didn't happen.

Well that was mind bending.

This episode delivered on all fronts. It delivered adventure, comedy, character growth and above all else, an eff tonne of mystery. It was like watching an episode of Tomb Buster, I mean Tomb Raider.

With the removal of Khonshu in the last episode, it was obvious that this episode was going to be more of a character driven one and that it was. It follows Layla and Steven searching for the tomb and it gave us great performances from all characters and what the show consistently does well is takes the audience through what the characters are feeling. We are in the dark about things just as much as these characters and we find out things alongside them. It creates for an experience of frustration and intrigue. Especially in this episode. I'm glad there is more Layla in this episode too, it gives for some great chemistry and interactions.

This was by far the best written episode of the show, 95% of the jokes land (which is rare), the pacing is great, and the only downside is the vocabulary of Steven with using phrases and words that just don't fit, but this is very minor and takes little to nothing away from the scene it is being used in. The action is great, and so far, the action hasn't been just included for superheroes' sake and entertainment value; this show knows how to use the action and still leave us wanting more and honestly this episode was a little terrifying seeing how things played out and had an effective jump scare.

The cinematography was great too..the wide shots specifically.

Overall, it was the strongest episode of the show and potentially the strongest episode of all the MCU shows out there. I also want to point out again, no links have been made to the wider MCU which is fantastic and if it would've been done, it would've been in this episode. This show is standing on its own two feet and its all the better for it. I'm now excited to see what's to come because of this episode. Something I never felt watching the other MCU shows Bring on the next 2 eps.

P. S. I know I said it before but I really do think they need to have a MCU Tv logo at the start.

By far my favorite episode so far.

I actually like the slower moments of this show. They do a decent job of either building up tension or further developing the relationship between Layla and Marc/Steven. All of the anti ent Egyptian stuff is genuinely interesting and the comparisons to Raiders of the Lost Ark and Tomb Raider are pretty fair.

Oscar Isaac is excellent as these characters and I continue to like May Calamawy. Ethan Hawke is also really really good.

I really like that this show feels very different from the rest of the MCU, something I also felt with Eternals and Marvel's other tv shows to a degree. None of those even feel like this. I do hope they do another season of this show though. It's evident by this point that something bigger is coming after the finale right?

Also, I loved the last scene. Really great stuff.

Oscar Isaac gives his best performance so far depicting the dichotomous Marc/Steven. He illustrates their differences sublimely, in voice & vocabulary, facial expression and body language, viscerally incarnating these two disparate men struggling to share a body.

The first half crawls along, but is effective tension building. Night and tomb scenes are too dark and the effects budget was blown on last week's spectacular moon-magic, but these are minor quibbles.

Innumerable self-referential Easter eggs and nods to both Tomb Raider and Inception, round this out to the finest episode so far.

Nice episode, only the fight scene on the sandy hills was stupid.

I wonder which god saved him ;) Prob the one from the girl he did meet.

Had an Indiana Jones feel to it.