With three episodes left counting this one, Marvel’s Inhumans splits up the Royal Family to find Crystal, take down Auran, and make their way to Attilan.
Hello Marvel’s Inhumans. I hope you are worth taking a break from Super Mario Odyssey to watch.
(The chances of that actually being accurate are extremely low. Onward and upward! Maybe someone will at least wear a hat to tide me over.)
Not-So-Short Summary
Maximus’s dream to start off the episode is the kind of action we really want to see. Plus it proves Maximus is way in over his head for whenever the rest of the Royal Family returns. That was definitely the most expressive we’ve seen Black Bolt’s face. And it was all a dream!
One of the fun running themes through this episode is Medusa ignoring Black Bolt’s constant urges to kill Maximus. I, for one, am very with Black Bolt. But Medusa’s side makes sense: don’t be like every king. Give Maximus a fair trial.
Unfortunately Crystal’s romp to the ocean with her Hawaii boyfriend and Lockjaw made the dog a lot worse and they’re stuck. Hawaii boyfriend takes her to the highest point on Oahu so she can sent a lightning bolt to show where she is. It surprisingly works. Black Bolt, Medusa, and Louise find her and Hawaii boyfriend and head to find Gorgon and Karnak.
For an episode with Gorgon’s name in the title, he doesn’t do much until the second half. At first, it’s all Karnak doing the work, mostly because Auran and her team don’t know he’s broken.
MARVEL’S INHUMANS – “Behold…The Inhumans” – The highly anticipated new Marvel television series “Marvel’s Inhumans” makes its debut on the small screen with the network premiere of the series’ first two episodes on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 (8:00-10:01 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. (ABC/Mario Perez)
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Thank goodness, his fight scene with Auran gives us some much-needed action. Close quarters, hand-to-hand combat. It’s no May-versus-May fight scene from Agents of SHIELD, but it’s still pretty good. Especially when you realize he’s trained all of them.
He also gets to save the day when they round up the bad guys and Mordis threatens to blow everything up. Literally — he gets killed in the blast. And it feels like a very unfair death.
Post-Credits Stinger
It’s a look at Thor: Ragnarok! It still looks insane and hilarious and amazing.
Badass Moment of the Week
Let’s go with Crystal melting Audrey’s phone with a fireball.
Best One-Liner
“It’s gotta be a trick—he wants me to shoot him,” Auran says of Karnak.
”Please don’t shoot me. Please don’t shoot me,” Karnak mutters under his breath.
Please tell me I’m not the only one who super rolled my eyes at Hawaii boyfriend calling Crystal “some kind of god of thunder.” Apparently his name is Dave. Good to know now that we probably won’t see him anymore.
Maximus doesn’t do much this episode aside from get even more paranoid. And start murdering people. Probably not a good choice for a king.
You’ve gotta feel bad for Louise. She was so close to getting to go to the moon!
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Next week’s Inhumans looks to tear the Royal Family apart. And that the ones on Earth finally make it to Attilan to face off against Maximus.