
'Moon Knight' starts well enough, but interest wanes with each new phase
CNN
The beauty of second-tier Marvel characters is they provide a relatively blank canvas, and "Moon Knight" arrives with a host of possibilities. Yet the resulting Disney+ series starts well enough but becomes messier and more convoluted with each hour, leaving interest waning when it should be waxing.
Marvel made four of the six episodes available in advance, in theory offering a clearer sense of where the show is heading -- helpful, certainly, when considering what slow builds some of its prior Disney+ series, a la "Loki" and "WandaVision," have been.
Unfortunately, this series proves almost as hard to decipher as a moonless night, and despite a game performance by Oscar Isaac as the squabbling personalities of a man with dissociative identity disorder, feels as if it's borrowing from an assortment of genres without picking a lane or carving out its own identity.