Secret Invasion, one of Marvel's most ambitious storylines, is wasted as a 6-episode TV show. It should have been the centerpiece of Marvel's post-Endgame plan.
The MCU is making its highly-anticipated return to the small screen after an eight-month absence with the six-episode limited series Secret Invasion. Samuel L. Jackson reprises his role as Nick Fury in a show that adapts one of Marvel’s most infamous and ambitious storylines, where things get shaken up by the discovery of a years-long invasion by the shape-shifting Skrulls, who have replaced key figures in the Marvel Universe.
Who can you trust? Secret Invasion is the sort of ambitious, over-the-top crossover event that can only happen in comic books. It relies on years of continued storytelling, leading to a massive reveal that works because of the shared baggage between these characters. Secret Invasion is a complex and larger-than-life event, and adapting it into a satisfying live-action product would require considerable work.
Secret Invasion would have excelled as a long-form, years-spanning, gender-bending crossover spanning television and film. Think of the reveal at the end of Far From Home as the starting point, with shows like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier focusing on the Skrull infiltration on Earth and films like The Marvels and even Eternals focusing on the invasion on a cosmic level.
Unlike Secret Invasion, a project tailor-made to spread across numerous slow-building projects, the Multiverse works best when it’s a one-off. Spider-Man: No Way Home worked because it was fresh and the epitome of fan service, but no one can claim it had a good story; Multiversal stories don’t usually have logical plots because they eventually succumb to the fan service of it all.
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