Ironheart

This show suffered from writers who don't understand what makes something dramatic and or interesting, so the writing just drones on and on and on with underwhelming scene after underwhelming scene. There are so many opportunities to make this extraordinary but these people would have to understand enough about creating drama to know how to do that, and they simply do not. This is at every turn, in every scene, and on and on. They seem to believe that savvy tech, and concepts alone will make it interesting, but it doesn't.

I hope they get better writers, soon too, because the basic premise perhaps could be interesting, if . . .

I honestly don't get how anyone's hyping this up. They killed off Tony Stark for this? To put a kid in a plastic suit and call her a genius just because the script says so?

Tony built his first suit in a freaking cave, with junk, and carried the whole MCU emotionally and narratively. And now we get... a teenager with no charisma, no real arc, everything just handed to her. The story feels flat. The emotions feel forced. And the suits? They look like something from a kids' cosplay contest.

The whole thing feels like a cheap knockoff with no soul. Marvel either doesn't know what it's doing anymore - or just stopped caring.

If this is what the "next generation" of heroes looks like... then yeah, maybe Endgame really was the end.

It looks slick but it suffers from the same issue all the new marvel stuff does.

It's emotionally flat as a pancake and doesn't connect with the people watching.

It makes the same mistakes of going for making a statement at the cost of the story and characters.

Neither the character development or the story are developed remotely enough to make us care and in fact do the opposite much of the time.

Someone likely realized this which is why it got shelved so long.

It's not acolyte or snow white levels of bad its just meh.

It's a shame really the people involved deserved better but they may have already know it was bad.

I'll start off with 1 positive: visual effects were not too bad. Um, now here we go...the acting was horrendous, the storyline appears to be written by a 5 year old; predictable and basically non interesting to watch. It's frustrating to me that people got paid for putting out this garbage. I can't imagine that this was screened in advance for consumer feedback. If you write garbage, then that is what you will see on the screen. I think that any run of the mill marvel super fan could have put together a way better storyline that what was produced. The acting is terrible, I don't expect this series to continue...

As a lifelong Marvel fan and someone who genuinely admired the growth and sacrifice of Tony Stark, watching Ironheart feels like being spat on for caring.

This series doesn't just fall short - it disrespects the legacy of Iron Man to artificially inflate a character who hasn't earned the suit, the tech, or the respect. Instead of honoring Tony Stark - the genius, billionaire, philanthropist who sacrificed everything - the show takes every opportunity to undermine his legacy. There's a line where Riri says Tony was "nothing without his money." Excuse me?

Tony built the Mark 1 in a cave, while dying, with scraps.

He survived PTSD, took responsibility for his past sins, created new elements, mentored Spider-Man like a father, and saved the entire universe in Endgame. He was more than his money - he was his mind, his heart, and his growth.

This show acts like we forgot that. But we didn't.

Instead of showing Riri Williams learning from Tony's legacy, or striving to live up to it, they turned her into a smug, ungrateful replacement. A character who walks in, acts like she knows better, and immediately claims the spotlight with no build-up. That's not inspiring. That's forced.

You want strong new heroes? Great - earn it.

Let Riri grow, make mistakes, struggle, and rise. Let her respect the ones who came before her. That's called storytelling.

But this? This was lazy writing, weak character development, and an insult to everything the MCU built over 10+ years.

You can't just write off legends to make room for new ones. That's how you lose your audience.

This wasn't a tribute to Iron Man. It was a hit job.

And for that, I'm out.

1 star. And that's generous.