Trailer: https://youtu.be/g0f1o-KGWPM
Premiere: Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 9pm Eastern, simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu.
The latest trailer shows scenes from Daredevil (the Netflix series), and Hawkeye (with some implied spoilers).
The series is rated TV-MA, which is the most “adult” rating of a Marvel series to date, but matches the Netflix Daredevil rating.
This is also the first series to premiere under the “Spotlight” brand.
Echo will be the first series under the Marvel Spotlight banner… Just like comics fans didn’t need to read Avengers or Fantastic Four to enjoy a Ghost Rider Spotlight comic, our audience doesn’t need to have seen other Marvel series to understand what’s happening in Maya’s story.
On the one hand, an all at once January dump might mean it’s terrible.
On the other hand there is nothing else out right now and as we saw with What If, they seem to be experimenting with release schedules.
This “all at once” is similar to the Netflix style, or at least the Daredevil Netflix style.
We’re also getting 5 episodes instead of a more standard 6, and each episode is expected to be ~40 minutes. So we’re basically just getting a long movie. And to me cutting an episode means they’re not trying to stretch things out.
After Secret Invasion my expectations are low, but I really want to see something great since this is basically all we’re getting this year.
I kind of have low expectations because I didn’t really care about this character the last time we saw her, but I’m hoping to be won over.
I like the character, but they wouldn’t be my first pick. I think if we had a Hawkeye show going on, and a Daredevil show going on, and then we also got an Echo show, I’d be super excited.