12 Problems With Every Marvel Netflix Show

6. The Painfully Expository Dialogue

Expository dialogue is the devil, and these shows are utterly jam-packed with it. Though some exposition is understandable in shows this densely-plotted, at times the writing takes on a lazily prosaic quality, where characters are just vomiting up heaps of soulless backstory and character information solely for the audience's benefit.

Even the most casual audience will know - even if only at a mere subconscious level - when dialogue sounds robotic and unrealistic, and the result is that so much of the storytelling in these shows feels frequently off.

How are we supposed to get emotionally invested when so much of the narrative - both big and small picture - is just reams of exhausting, monotonous chatter?

Countless popular TV shows suffer from this problem, but it's an especially big problem under the Marvel Netflix umbrella because the MCU films actually do a pretty decent job of keeping overt lore-dumping to a minimum.

And though these shows shouldn't be particularly tough to follow, the excess of Explaining Things is so aggressive and dull that you'd be forgiven for just zoning out during some of them.