After the first two episodes, the entire season of “Hawkeye” is a third over, and it feels like it’s just getting started, especially given the cast members that have been announced for the run of the show like Florence Pugh reprising the role of Yelena Belova from “Black Widow.” We meet some other supporting characters like Kate’s mother Eleanor ( Vera Farmiga) and her suspicious new beau Jack (Tony Dalton), but the tone is unmistakably low-key.
For its first two episodes, “Hawkeye” does a lot of wheel-spinning. Donning the Ronin costume and getting into some trouble with a group called the Tracksuit Mafia gets Barton’s attention, and he sends the kids home to mom while he hangs back to see what’s up. Years later, she’s drawn into Hawkeye’s world directly when she happens upon the costume of Ronin, the identity that Barton took during the Blip, turning himself into a legendary vigilante. In fact, an early flashback reveals she was there in New York when Loki tried to take over the world, and even spotted the famous archer in a moment of heroism. You probably would too.Īcross town, Kate Bishop ( Hailee Steinfeld) is a master archer cut much from the same cloth as Hawkeye. The Bartons-minus mom, who is seen in a few brief scenes on phone calls, again played by Linda Cardellini-go to a show of Rogers: The Musical, which appears to be a pretty dull recounting of the Chitauri attack on the Big Apple. When “Hawkeye” opens, Clint Barton is in New York City with his family in a universe where the Blip definitely happened but not COVID- Jeremy Renner does convey how tightly a father would hold onto children who literally disappeared for half a decade with some subtle beats.
“Hawkeye” tends to be too thin, even with some of the best source material to work with for any of these shows. Where does “Hawkeye” fall on this spectrum? After two episodes, my biggest concern is that it will be the most forgettable. “Loki” fared a little better in the creativity department and “What If…?” has the natural hit-and-miss nature of an anthology series. After “WandaVision” felt like it was trying something new in the superhero world, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” landed with more of a predictable thud, especially when it came to its questionable politics. The writers, led by creator Jonathan Igla, seek to counter the difficulty of selling the Hawkeye brand by balancing it with one of the most charismatic young actresses working today, but they forget to inject enough story, character, or world-building into these first two episodes to hook viewers. It’s a very hard brand to sell.” The most by-the-numbers member of The Avengers is the first to get his own show this week in the two-episode launch of the six-episode “Hawkeye,” premiering on Disney+. “Your whole thing is that you’re low-key.
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