OK, hopefully, you’ve just read our article on Marvel’s “Daredevil: Born Again,” which is going through a massive creative reboot/rethink/overhaul, etc., because Kevin Feige and the Marvel powers that be have decided the show—which was supposed to be a whopping 18 episodes long—wasn’t working.

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One of the biggest takeaways from the original article, however, the bigger picture is Marvel’s ego.

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In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast host Mike DeAngelo returns from the stars to discuss Marvel’s latest Disney+ series, “Secret Invasion.” The show follows Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) as he beams back from outer space in order to stop a rogue faction of Skrulls that are hell-bent on taking Earth for themselves. The series also stars Emilia Clarke, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Don Cheadle, Martin Freeman, Olivia Colman, and more.

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“Secret Invasion” is done. Whether or not people will look back fondly on this chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is unknown at this time. (Early reaction to the finale would seem as if fans weren’t not overly excited about how it ended, to be honest.) But the MCU is a monolithic entity that can withstand the odd blunder (or several, if you consider the last couple of years of releases), and fans will always look toward the future.

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To say that fans weren’t happy with the finale of “Secret Invasion” would be an understatement. Honestly, people just really weren’t all that interested in much about the latest Marvel Studios series. Taking that a bit further, you could argue that fans are much less enthusiastic about any of the Marvel Studios TV shows that have been premiering on Disney+. But that’s a discussion for another time.

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The sixth and final episode of “Secret Invasion” premiered on Disney+ this week, and the critical response was …not good at all. In fact, the show’s last episode is the worst-reviewed MCU project ever, with a 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics and fans alike have had qualms with the show, like its slow start and lifeless plot. And that poor reception likely has Marvel Studios on alert as it continues to adjust its release schedule for future projects.

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Now 74, Samuel L. Jackson shows no signs no slowing down as an actor. After “Secret Invasion,” Jackson’s latest stint as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Nick Fury, wraps next week, he’ll star again as Fury in “The Marvels” this Fall. After that, the actor also has Matthew Vaughn‘s long-awaited “Argylle,” “Garfield,” “The Kill Room” and more on deck.

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Spoilers if you haven’t seen Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” series yet, because this new mid-season trailer pulls out a lot of the stops and reveals a lot of the spoilers the series has featured so far. So, spoilers, yes? You’ve been warned.

READ MORE: ‘Secret Invasion’ Game Changes The MCU With A Shocking Avenger-As-Skrull Twist

OK, “Secret Invasion” has been a bit hit and miss so far, with critics on the fence at best (including our review), but the series has had at least two significant things happen in it so far, and both have been unveiled in this new mid-season trailer.

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Spoilers abound, you’ve been warned, do not pass go, etc. For real, if you haven’t seen “Beloved,” the fourth episode of Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” show, turn yourself around and watch before you read this story; thanks!

OK, as you know by now, Marvel’s Disney+ show, “Secret Invasion,” is Nick-Fury (Samuel L. Jackson)-centered show, but as the title suggests, it’s not really about Fury himself per se.

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While the discussion surrounding Marvel Studios’ “Secret Invasion” over the past week seems to have been mostly about the fact that generative A.I. was used to create the title sequence, there was something pretty impactful to the MCU in the episode. And according to Cobie Smulders, even in a show about misdirection and fake-outs, the ending of Episode 1 of “Secret Invasion” is exactly what you think it is. 

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Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” series opens up with a super intriguing line about trust. “Imagine a world where information can’t be trusted,” a disembodied gravely voice says while former CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman) skulks in the shadows in Moscow. “Society starts to fray,” the voice continues, eerily and alarmingly echoing our own current age of disinformation, division, and distrust.

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“Secret Invasion,” says right off the bat, with all the Earth’s disruption—Thanos’ Blip, five years of half the planet, then the surprise of everyone returning—that the world has plunged into chaos and uncertainty.

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It isn’t a secret that during the rise of streaming, the fate of episodic television wasn’t clear. Now, many would say that they prefer shows that have the time to explore the story, the characters, and the themes throughout a season over a movie. 

Many shows highlight the strength of television, and streaming services have made it a competitive market. This year has already seen “The Last of Us,” “Pokerface,” “Shrinking,” and “Daisy Jones and The Six,” on top of the new seasons of shows like “Succession,” “The Marvelous Ms.

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Who do you trust? Tonight, during ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, the trailer for Marvel Studios’ espionage thriller “Secret Invasion” debuted. The original series premieres on June 21, exclusively on Disney+.

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In Marvel Studios’ new series “Secret Invasion,” set in the present-day MCU, Nick Fury learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls.

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Two years ago, Bob Iger pointed to the rafters and said, the future of our business is on streaming and Disney+. By then, everyone had a streaming service or one in the works, and it ushered in the age of #TooMuchContent. However, as we know, after the Wall Street Netflix crash of April 2022, which impacted the entire industry as the stock market totally reevaluated the worth of all streaming services, things are changing.

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While Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury has been in eleven MCU films to date – including pretty significant roles in “Spider-Man: Far From Home” and “Captain Marvel” – the character’s never had a solo movie before. That isn’t changing with Marvel’s “Secret Invasion,” an upcoming limited series, but it’s the closest we’ve come so far.

READ MORE: ‘Secret Invasion’: Sam Jackson Says Don Cheadle & Martin Freeman Appear In Marvel’s Upcoming Series

“Secret Invasion” will see Fury reunited with the Skrull Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) after the pair worked together in the 1990s-set “Captain Marvel.” During his Comic-Con panel earlier this summer, Don Cheadle was officially confirmed as the newest cast member in the series, making “Secret Invasion” arguably the most star-studded of the Disney+ spinoffs to date.

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Marvel Studios was anything but stingy with this year’s Comic-Con footage. New trailers for “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” and, most importantly, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” were released online in a matter of minutes, allowing fans around the world to join in the celebration of all things Phase 4. But Comic-Con was also home to several exclusive trailers for Marvel’s upcoming slate of shows and movies, including the much-anticipated “Secret Invasion,” the Disney+ show that potentially sets the stage for a full-fledged alien invasion of Earth.

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Samuel L. Jackson is one of the OG Marvel Cinematic Universe folks, appearing as Nick Fury for the first time in the post-credits stinger for “Iron Man” and introducing the concept of the Avengers. From there, he’s been in a number of MCU films, but he has yet to get the chance to headline his own project. That all changes with “Secret Invasion.” But that doesn’t mean he’s the only returning character who will be showing up in the Disney+ series.

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Say what you will about “Eternals.” Depending on which side of the discourse you fall on (because, as we know, there are always only two sides), the film is either a nice change of pace for Marvel Studios, showing a more mature, emotional story, or it’s the worst catastrophe in the MCU since “Thor: The Dark World” and Chloe Zhao is clearly a terrible filmmaker.

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Marvel Studios wants to bring together some heavyweight actors to their big crossover event series “Secret Invasion” as Oscar-winner Olivia Colman, Emilia Clarke, and “One Night In Miami“s Kingsley Ben-Adir are all starring in the Disney+ series, likely due late 2022.

READ MORE: Marvel’s ‘Secret Invasion’: Marvel Taps Thomas Bezucha & Ali Selim To Direct Their Skrull Event Series

During her extensive chat with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Emilia Clarke revealed that everyone has to tape their audition for Marvel projects and wasn’t offended she had to do it for her mysterious MCU part in the upcoming Disney+ series. 

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Lucasfilm and Disney might have had grand plans for multiple films if “Solo: A Star Wars Story” had been a monster success. Instead, it became a costly experiment in blockbuster filmmaking that lost money and suffered a trouble production narrative. ‘Solo’ didn’t hit financial targets given the hefty production costs due to reshoots with replacement director Ron Howard after Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired over creative differences with only three weeks of filmmaking left.

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Marvel Studios is taking big risks with their new wave of Disney+ shows. Unlike the ABC, Hulu, and Netflix Marvel series (that now have been effectively rendered non-canon), their new shows will be directly tied into the film side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the TV shows would always reference the MCU, but were rarely if ever reciprocated from Kevin Feige‘s corner of the hard-canon MCU). The new shows will have a direct impact on the plots of future films.

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At this point, it’s no secret Marvel Studios always have great casts in their film and TV series, and if there was ever any stigma about A-listers taking on their projects, that’s long, long gone. That is to say, the cast for Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ limited series, “Secret Invasion,” led by Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury character, is quickly shaping up to be one of their best.

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Christian Bale is in a new ‘Thor’ film. Jake Gyllenhaal was in the recent ‘Spider-Man’ feature. Oscar Isaac is in a “Moon Knight” TV series. Marvel really just doesn’t have any trouble landing true A-listers for roles, huh? So, it really shouldn’t be any surprise the studio is able to land an Oscar-winner like Olivia Colman for a supporting role in a Disney+ TV series.

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Fresh off his breakout role in “One Night in Miami…” (but he also was great in “The OA”), Kingsley Ben-Adir is doing what all rising actors do nowadays—joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Except, it appears that Ben-Adir won’t be suiting up as a good guy in the forthcoming Disney+ series, “Secret Invasion.”

According to Variety, Kingsley Ben-Adir has been added to the cast of Marvel Studios’ upcoming streaming series, “Secret Invasion.” The exact role he is going to play is not yet revealed (did you expect anything less?), but the report claims that Ben-Adir is set to portray a “main villain” in the alien invasion series.

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Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige not only stuck the landing when they released “Avengers: Endgame” and capped off a nearly-two-dozen-film run that spans a decade, but they did so in record-breaking fashion. But what do you do after you release the biggest film of all time? Well, COVID-19 says that you take a full year off and regroup.

READ MORE: ‘WandaVision’ Teases Trauma & Grief While Playing With The Fantasy Of Sitcom Tropes [Review]

We are now in 2021, and the MCU hangover from ‘Endgame’ has fully worn off.

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