Moon Knight

After the spectacular first year Marvel Studios had on Disney+, it was hard to imagine how they could top it as they usher in their second year on the...

Would you like to learn more about Moon Knight in the comics? Overall, Moon Knight is an exceptional entry into the MCU, and has the potential to be the best Marvel Studios show on Disney+. It had a great mixture of dark supernatural moments with humor both light and dark. Grant is the squishy marshmallow of the two, with a heart of gold and anxiety through the roof. For Steven, it may seem like it is all a dream but for fans of the Moon Knight comic series, we already have an idea of what is actually happening. Reminiscent of the first episode of WandaVision, viewers are thrown straight into the mystery and world of Moon Knight. Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) is our lovable British narrator who attempts to have a normal life. Are you ready to summon the suit and fight in the name of Khonshu? Let’s shine some moonlight onto Marvel Studio’s Moon Knight!

Gift shop worker Steven Grant channels the power of Egyptian god Khonshu in Marvel's Moon Knight. Read Empire's review now.

But thanks to the inspired inception of Isaac’s Steven Grant, and a story that judiciously places the central character’s humanity on a level with his heroics, Marvel’s newest addition shoots for the moon and largely hits its mark. Marvel’s first TV series in this new MCU-integrated era to introduce a new headline character, Moon Knight is – four episodes in – a boldly bonkers affair that manages to capture the same giddy joy imbued in Hawkeye and Loki. In taking a relatively obscure character and leaning into his more eccentric elements, writer Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four, The Umbrella Academy) has delivered something that feels genuinely different from any corner of the MCU yet explored — somehow managing to make Egyptian gods canon in the process. What’s remarkable, however, is not that this six-part series is Marvel’s take on An Idiot Abroad, but that Isaac’s Grant very quickly establishes himself as the show’s — and possibly the whole of Phase Four’s — most joyous new addition.

Oscar Isaac stars as a sleepwalking museum worker involved in battles between ancient Egyptian gods in Disney Plus's new show.

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Steven Grant is visibly out of his depth in a Marvel movie – this, with occasional but notable exceptions, looks and feels closer to a big-screen outing than something like Hawkeye did – and Moon Knight has a lot of fun with that fish out of water juxtaposition. It is, if you like, much less The Dark Knight and much more The Lark Knight: there’s a lot of jokes and a lot of levity, with Isaac clearly quite comfortable as a comic lead. Moon Knight’s opening two episodes focus, for the most part, on the character’s British guise Steven Grant. The central conceit here is that Grant has a form of dissociative identity disorder (never named as such here, and arguably not treated perhaps as sensitively as it should be), meaning the down-on-his-luck museum gift shop employee doesn’t realise he’s been moonlighting as a superhero.

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People who suffer from the real life disorder have multiple personalities, with those identities taking control of the person’s actions and behaviour. The first episode of Moon Knight begins streaming on Disney Plus on Wednesday March 30. You can steam the first episode from 8am UK time on March 30.

I was granted a preview of the first four episodes last week along with fellow Cosmic Circus writers Brian Kitson and Anthony Flagg (linked at the end). Suffice ...

Some may be surprised to see how little there is of Marc, vs Steven, in the first couple of episodes but this is all a well-planned build-up for the story and Marc as well as The Moon Knight’s introduction, don’t worry Marc Spector fans. At the same time, I’m very intrigued by some hints that all may not be as it seems with Layla. I’m looking forward to seeing what if any secrets she may still be keeping from the viewers, as well as from Marc and Steven. This episode closes with a “What the hell did I just see?” moment that I can’t wait to see everyone’s reactions to. I suspect there will be more debate about the idea of giving people a choice of how they behave versus deciding for them as this story continues. As I mentioned in some “first impressions” posts on my Twitter, Moon Knight really came out swinging with one of the strongest opening episodes of any Marvel series. I was granted a preview of the first four episodes last week along with fellow Cosmic Circus writers Brian Kitson and Anthony Flagg (linked at the end). Suffice to say, all three of us were pretty impressed with what we’ve seen so far from the Oscar Isaac-led Marvel series.

The action-adventure series stars Oscar Isaac as a complex vigilante who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. It is based on a character that first ...

Episodes two and three are expected to be 50 minutes long - with the fourth running at 51 minutes. It is believed all episodes of the show are around 40 to 50 minutes long. The Moon Knight character, created by writer Doug Moench and artist Don Perlin, first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1975.

Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke battle it out in a show that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Fight sequences last five minutes, rather than 45, and have the goofy, slapstick charm of Naked Gun or Johnny English. Even the core idea – Ancient Egyptian gods doing battle through human avatars, “Area 51, MI6 bonkers bruv” as Steven describes it – has an innate stupidity that the series embraces rather than rejects. A bald billionaire who wants to rule the earth. From The Sopranos to The Wire, Deadwood to Breaking Bad, television of the past two decades has often been emotionally, and visually, complex and mature. Sure, they’ve already had success with Wandavision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye and Loki, but those were all established superheroes spun off from The Avengers. Where Marvel has previously brought its IP to life on straight-to-streaming services (I’m thinking Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil and The Punisher), it’s struggled to capture the lightning in a bottle that makes children (and certain adults) keep going back for more. Led by Oscar Isaac as the besuited “fist of Khonshu”, it stands a good chance. The term “Golden Age of Television”, sometimes called “Peak TV”, has been used to describe the shift, in the new millennium, towards higher quality, more grown-up, small screen content.

Well, we get precisely zero Batman vibes in this first episode of the new Disney+ show, where we meet the painfully uncool Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac in his ...

I will say it is refreshing to watch an ambitious Marvel show that isn’t filled with Easter eggs (for comics fans, there’s a quick glimpse of the name “Duchamp” on Marc’s flip phone) or in-universe call-backs: Moon Knight doesn’t have to concern itself with dropping breadcrumbs, and can just get on with telling its own story from the ground up. Although Isaac’s British accent is likely a rollercoaster for anyone who lives in the UK – sometimes he sounds bang on the money and others not – hints are dropped that we will get more of American Marc in the next episode. Casting F. Murray Abraham as the voice of the moon god is a masterstroke. In fact, there’s a lot of really cool stuff in this episode that ends up a little smudged by either its underwhelming CG or Isaac’s quirky central performance as the flappable Steven, which is unfortunate. Steven is passionate about ancient Egypt, and seems to be by all accounts a lovely man on the verge of starting a romance with a beautiful co-worker who he doesn’t even remember asking out. Well, we get precisely zero Batman vibes in this first episode of the new Disney+ show, where we meet the painfully uncool Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac in his element), a timid British museum gift shop employee who thinks he has a sleep disorder.

Much of the pre-release publicity about Moon Knight focused on the heightened brutality of the new MCU on Disney+ series. In doing so, all involved failed to ...

Diab directs four of the six, including two of the episodes given to critics. For viewers who have increasingly complained that the MCU plays it too safe, too rarely risks going big and weird, Moon Knight may provide some of what they want. Finally, Abraham does a lot with a little, making Khonshu seem violent, cruel, selfish, and intensely lonely with limited lines and an evolving tone of voice. With less than two hours left, the show has several pieces in play but none particularly close to resolution. When they don’t in episode two, viewers end up back in the realm of the goofy. The fourth episode suggests a certain awareness of this necessity. Mohamed Diab and the team of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead split directing duties on the series. It’s not so much inaccurate about DID as it is the same old visual language. Scenes of the god’s giant skeletal bird body wandering through a well-attended bazaar or relaxing against a car are strong mergers of the bizarre and benign. Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke)—the series villain—has a far less eye-catching but nonetheless appropriate look. At its best, it demonstrates how quickly and easily the diagnosis can get you marginalized. In doing so, all involved failed to mention how much stranger it would be than the average MCU streamer.

Moon Knight episode 2 release date on Disney Plus, plus US and UK times.

Moon Knight is six episodes long, releasing one episode every Wednesday for the next six weeks. You've seen the first episode and are probably already eager to binge watch Moon Knight episode 2, right? Instead, we're back to the regular ol' one-a-week schedule for the continuing adventures of Oscar Isaac's MCU newcomer.

Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke battle it out in a show that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Fight sequences last five minutes, rather than 45, and have the goofy, slapstick charm of Naked Gun or Johnny English. Even the core idea – Ancient Egyptian gods doing battle through human avatars, “Area 51, MI6 bonkers bruv” as Steven describes it – has an innate stupidity that the series embraces rather than rejects. A bald billionaire who wants to rule the earth. From The Sopranos to The Wire, Deadwood to Breaking Bad, television of the past two decades has often been emotionally, and visually, complex and mature. Sure, they’ve already had success with Wandavision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye and Loki, but those were all established superheroes spun off from The Avengers. Where Marvel has previously brought its IP to life on straight-to-streaming services (I’m thinking Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil and The Punisher), it’s struggled to capture the lightning in a bottle that makes children (and certain adults) keep going back for more. Led by Oscar Isaac as the besuited “fist of Khonshu”, it stands a good chance. The term “Golden Age of Television”, sometimes called “Peak TV”, has been used to describe the shift, in the new millennium, towards higher quality, more grown-up, small screen content.