When it comes to making movies and television shows, there are two different kinds of bravery. The good kind, in which the project may choose to get a bit more creative with its ideas, themes, and tones in order to rise above what may be otherwise expected, and the bad kind, in which the final result was clearly pursued with just enough reckless abandon to ensure disarming levels of dissonance.
Marvel Studios has dabbled in both, with the latter example manifesting in the form of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and the former example showing up in a great many of the franchise’s Disney Plus shows, with a special nod to the deliciously deviant WandaVision and Werewolf by Night.
But, we’d also be remiss to leave Moon Knight out of the equation. The franchise debut of Marc Spector and co. was one of the MCU‘s most poignant, graphic, and enrapturing properties to date, and we shudder to imagine this being the end of the road for the ivory-clad vigilante.
But, even after we’ve had nearly a year to spend with the show, some folks are still failing to wrap their head around the relatively mind-boggling Marvel outing, and have taken to r/marvelstudios for answers.
Of course, “relatively” is the keyword here. The show does a pretty ample job of distinguishing hallucinations from actual events, as a few users explained quite simply.
Of course, such ambiguity would be even more in line with the character of Moon Knight, and a few other users even wished that the show leaned further into such a nuance.
But it wouldn’t be Reddit without obligatory lampooning.
Ambiguous or not, shows like Moon Knight make for some extremely healthy additions to a franchise that could very well be in dire need of some, and with Secret Invasion looking set to be Marvel’s answer to Andor, we think the Disney Plus side of things is in good hands.
Moon Knight is available to stream on Disney Plus.