Hawkeye

This week I’m going to be reviewing Hawkeye, a miniseries that I really enjoyed.  Hawkeye has been well received by critics, some calling it the best Marvel series on Disney+ (along with Wandavision and Loki that is).  Hawkeye has also been streamed a lot since it came out, making the top 10 on several streaming charts.  I definitely found this to be the best Marvel show that I’ve seen on Disney+, which I will talk about more below.  FYI, this show does have a Christmas theme to it, and I loved watching it at Christmas, but I think you can watch it even if it’s not around Christmastime.  I was looking forward to this show for two reasons and those are that I really like Hailee Steinfeld’s work and that the dog in the show looks kind of like my own dog!

In this 5^th MCU series on Disney+ (the other series I mention below), despite the titular character not being my most favorite superhero (nothing against him but just haven’t paid a lot of attention to him before), this is definitely the best Marvel show to come out on Disney+!  While Wandavision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier had good parts, I thought they both ended poorly; and I haven’t yet seen Loki or What If…?   I found the plotlines of Hawkeye very interesting and the acting really good, and I think the characters are awesome as well!  Both Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld do a great job portraying their characters, and we also get great diversity/representation in the show, as the character Maya Lopez/Echo is a deaf character played by a deaf actress who is also an amputee and is Native American as well.  Talk about great representation on multiple levels!  I don’t remember there ever being a disabled or an indigenous character in the MCU.  Also, spoiler alert, my girl Yelena returns in the 4^th episode!  Yay!!  Just as an FYI, there is some violence in the show and a couple of characters die (some in flashback scenes), but this isn’t surprising since it’s an action series.  In the past, I’ve talked about how it’s important for media to be diverse so that all kinds of people can see themselves represented on screen, and I definitely think this show did diversity the best!  For me, Hawkeye avoids the “mess” of the two other MCU shows that I’ve seen, as its themes (like diversity) come across as effortless and things are tied together neatly at the end of the series.  So, if you’re thinking about diving into the MCU shows on Disney+, I think you should start with this one, and then watch the others and judge for yourself if they’re better, worse or equal to Hawkeye.