Echo Review Roundup

Billie Melissa
·1 min read

Marvel's first TV-MA series, Echo, landed on Disney+ and Hulu yesterday, and critics' first reactions are also rolling out.

Landing a 64% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 22 reviews, it seems that while the majority of critics liked it, some were not so keen.

The mini-series starring Alaqua Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio follows Maya Lopez as she must face her past and reconnect with her roots if she ever hopes to move forward.

It's much darker in concept than previous offerings from Marvel Studios, hence the TV-MA rating, but has it shaken the superhero fatigue?

Find out what critics said below.

Review roundup

  • Collider: When built around the more natural little details that remain free from the trappings of the shambling MCU, Echo leaps into action. Given that the rest of the franchise feels like dead weight, what this series achieves is made that much more promising.

  • ComicBook.com: This show belongs to Maya Lopez and Alaqua Cox, and both of them are newfound superstars. It's a Marvel show disguised as a television drama, with just enough action set pieces to remind you it's a piece of comic book cinema.

  • The Playlist: Echo is ultimately a series about how the legacy of violence corrodes the soul, but it never knows how to heal or enrich it either, content to just land another bloody blow to the head instead.

  • The Daily Beast: A third-rate snoozer that further waters down the once-mighty Marvel brand.

  • Inverse: Echo is the antidote to Marvel malaise. The series brings the franchise into a new future by calling back to a brutal, neck-snapping era of TV that makes Echo feel like it’s lifted straight from the early 2000s.