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=Hawkeye= Hawkeye is an American television miniseries created by Jonathan Igla for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Clint Barton / Hawkeye and Kate Bishop / Hawkeye. It is the fifth television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, sharing continuity with the films of the franchise and taking place after the events of the film Avengers: Endgame (2019). Igla served as head writer with Rhys Thomas leading the directing team.

Hawkeye premiered with its first two episodes on November 24, 2021, and ran for six episodes, concluding on December 22. It is part of Phase Four of the MCU.

Plot
One year after the events of mh:greatestmovies:Avengers: Endgame, Clint Barton must partner with Kate Bishop to confront enemies from his past as the Ronin in order to get back to his family in time for Christmas.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) For this being her acting debut, Alaqua Cox manages to make quite an impact as Echo, being able to do a lot for the character despite the character not having any spoken dialogue. Her facial expressions alone do a wonderful job of showcasing the tragic character that Maya really is, culminating with her holding Kazi as he's dying in her arms — with the regret and despair of having to kill her Only Friend, not unlike how she held her dying father in her arms all those years prior.
 * 2) Vincent D'Onofrio returns as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin from Daredevil Netflix series from Marvel Television.
 * 3) Much like in his debut appearance, Wilson Fisk remains a terrifying figure throughout the entire finale. Combined with his newfound Super Strength and his durability in battle, it only increases his threat level. His interactions with Maya, where he tries to present himself as a loving familial figure, also create an unsettling overtone of an abuser trying to gaslight their target.
 * 4) *The level of sheer durability that Fisk displays is insane. Kate shoots him point blank with an arrow, and the Kingpin doesn't even bother to pull it out. He just snaps the shaft in two with the arrowhead still inside his body. He gets hit with a car hard enough to throw him through a storefront and barely seems bruised. The final shot of the battle is Kate detonating basically every single trick arrow at her disposal, and that just knocked him out for... Ten minutes. Maximum.
 * 5) The score is pretty catchy. Hawkeye’s Theme is Bond-esque and takes cues from the Avengers’ Theme to tie him together with The Avengers.
 * 6) *Andy Williams' "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" playing throughout the initial trailer gives it a fun and bouncy rhythm and perfectly ties into the premise of An Ass-Kicking Christmas. It also plays during the first episode's credits.
 * 7) *Depeche Mode's "Christmas Island", which is used for Maya's intro scene.
 * 8) *Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "A Mad Russian's Christmas" playing during the scene where Clint and Kate hot wire a car to escape the Tracksuit Mafia in Episode 3.
 * 9) *While Rogers: The Musical is played for Stylistic Suck and only bits of one of the songs, specifically "Save the City" is actually heard in the show itself but when the full version was released it turned out to be a rocking piece of pure Narm Charm, to the point that those who weren't already sold on the concept want to see the full play. The season finale ends with a live performance of the song.
 * 10) *"Christmas Time Is Here" (from A Charlie Brown Christmas), which has always sounded a little somber, plays in episode 5 when Clint and Kate are both feeling at their lowest.
 * 11) *The penultimate episode ends with "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" that coincides with the return of Wilson Fisk.
 * 1) *"Christmas Time Is Here" (from A Charlie Brown Christmas), which has always sounded a little somber, plays in episode 5 when Clint and Kate are both feeling at their lowest.
 * 2) *The penultimate episode ends with "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" that coincides with the return of Wilson Fisk.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It's very obvious that none of the actors are using actual phones during scenes that feature them texting, as none of the places they're tapping actually correspond to the location of the buttons they'd need to press. Not to mention that autocomplete doesn't work that fast.

Reception
Hawkeye received positive reviews, with critics highlighting the action sequences and the chemistry between Renner and Steinfeld. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 92% approval rating with an average rating of 7.55/10, based on 170 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Hawkeye starts slowly, but the street-level action is a refreshing change of pace for the MCU—and the chemistry between its leads sparkles even when the plot lags.". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 66 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

=Ms. Marvel=

Ms. Marvel is an American television miniseries created by Bisha K. Ali for the streaming service Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics featuring the character Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel. It is intended to be the seventh television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. Ali serves as head writer with Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah leading the directing team.

Ms. Marvel premiered on June 8, 2022, and will consist of six episodes, concluding on July 13. It will be part of Phase Four of the MCU.

Plot
Marvel Studios’ Ms. Marvel is a new, original series that introduces Kamala Khan, a Muslim American teenager growing up in Jersey City. An avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, Kamala is a Super Hero mega fan with an oversized imagination—particularly when it comes to Captain Marvel. Yet Kamala feels like she doesn’t fit in at school and sometimes even at home—that is, until she gets super powers like the heroes she’s always looked up to. Life gets better with super powers, right?

Reception
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 94% approval rating with an average rating of 7.80/10, based on 92 reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Ms. Marvel is a genuinely fresh addition to the MCU—both stylistically and substantively—with Iman Vellani ably powering proceedings with her super-sized charisma.". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 75 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".