Secret Invasion Episode 2 Review - 7 Ups & 3 Downs

10. Down - The Captain Marvel Recap

Typically at the beginning of an episodic show like Secret Invasion, there will be a 'previously on' feature to help catch the audience up to where they need to be, and to remind them of some of the more important aspects of the series going into a specific episode.

Promises didn't have that however, instead it featured what was essentially a full recap of Captain Marvel, of course being careful not to actually show the titular character herself. This went through Fury's whole arc from meeting the Skrulls to trusting them and promising to help them find a new home.

This felt like an incredibly jarring way to open the second episode of the show. While it did bleed into the first proper scene of the episode based in 1997, it felt like everything that was shown in the recap was explained in the scene anyway. Recapping an entire movie just to aid one scene felt entirely out of place and didn't exactly place much trust in the viewer to know what was going on.

Chances are if you're watching Secret Invasion you know roughly what happened in Captain Marvel at the very least. Maybe a bit of exposition would help, but nothing so on the nose as this. Imagine if the likes of Infinity War or Endgame summed up everything that fans needed to have seen before actually getting into the movie. We'd have been there all night!