Rome wasn’t built in a day, nor did its empire collapse in one.
The same could be said for the commercial juggernaut that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has struggled to find its footing since bringing the decade-in-the-making story that was The Infinity Saga to a close with “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019.At first, things didn’t seem too disconcerting.
After a pandemic preventing any MCU films or series from dropping in 2020 (save for a top-notch final season of the McU-adjacent “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.“), the following year saw the House of Ideas unleash a plethora of films in addition to its very first Disney+ series, many of which were perfectly decent (although there were some significant disappointments).
We even got our first legitimate big swing from the franchise with “Eternals“, along with the first season of “Loki,” an overall enjoyable series that used the multiverse to tell a genuinely character-focused story about the God of Mischief.
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