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You Need to Watch All of Echo
The first Marvel series of the year is also the first one that can be binged right out of the gate. That’s a good thing.
Despite the representational firsts associated with this origin story focused on Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), a deaf Choctaw woman with a prosthetic leg and an almost superhuman ability to take out multiple assailants at once, Echo ’s initial episodes come across as Marvel as usual. The sequence — which, for the record, may not fully resonate with viewers unless they’ve seen the previous Marvel series Hawkeye, where Maya was first introduced to the MCU — cries out to breathe a little longer and let us watch as this revelation sinks in for our protagonist. In its final act, Echo also takes more time with some key conversations, most notably one between Maya and Chula (Tantoo Cardinal), her estranged grandmother, that connects the dots between the frequent, unexplained visions both experience of their female Choctaw ancestors.
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