Hawkeye Is the Latest Marvel Show about Grief

Based on the glimpse of Disney+’s Hawkeye offered to critics (two episodes, with my email address watermarked over everyone’s facial expressions), there’s a pattern in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s television shows that have started to air on its parent company’s streaming service, Disney+, this year. WandaVision, Captain America and the Winter Soldier, and now Hawkeye: They seem to be where the storytelling machine is parking the fallout. Marvel’s movies keep getting larger in scale—half the world’s population winked out of existence, etc.—and the movies simply aren’t long enough to keep up with the losses inflicted on the ever-expanding cast of… Read Full Article