Vacation’s over for stoic Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), the previous S.H.I.E.L.D. director and developer of the crime-fighting Avengers. Last seen in the 2019 motion picture Spider-Man: Far From HomeFury has actually been off-planet taking a (well-deserved) break.
So what brings him back to Earth in Marvel’s latest tv series Secret Invasion (brand-new episodes stream Wednesdays)? Some quite major issues, all of which have our eye-patched leader discovering that a lot has actually altered considering that he left. “Nick comes back having lost whatever power he had before, so we try and solve things without being too superhuman,” Jackson says.
Good luck with that, as the most significant danger in theseries is a cruel Skrull faction who have actually silently been taking control of the world’s most effective companies. The reality that they’re shape-shifters makes complex things even further. “You could be talking to somebody you have a very close relationship with and then you find out that that’s not who you thought it was,” describes Cobie Smulders, who returns as Fury’s strong right-hand man, Maria Hill.
With things spiraling out of control, Fury signs up with Hill in addition to allies Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and Skrull Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) to help stop this intrusion. And while Marvel’s common dosages of humor might remain in much shorter supply, an advantage of that tone is that we get more discoveries about the cherished “boots on the ground” heroes we’ve gotten acquainted with in numerous movies.
“You get to see all these different sides of the characters,” says Don Cheadle, who returns as War Machine’s James “Rhodey” Rhodes. “It becomes a cat-and-mouse game that we build toward [until] the end of the show.”
Welcome back, Fury!
Secret Invasion, Wednesdays, Disney+
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