In an episode that features neither Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley) nor Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), the standalone episode “Doorman” offers the reason why an actor with super-powers would want to keep them secret by offering the tragedy of DeMarr Davis (Byron Bowers).
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“You suck Joe Pantoliano.”
In a show that continues to be more about acting than super-heroes, Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley) continues to get close to Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) while on the lookout for any dangerous powers. We get Trevor helping Simon with an audition tape, leading to a fun cameo from Joe Pantoliano, and tagging along to the birthday party of Simon’s mother (Shola Adewusi) where he gets a better understanding of his new friend’s backstory and witnesses Simon’s powers triggered by family drama.
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Continuing to search for more periphery Marvel Comics characters to add to the MCU, Disney+ offers up longtime hero, and sometimes West Coast Avenger, Wonder Man. Opening with an old movie featuring an actor playing the larger than life movie character with an extra dash of Flash Gordon thrown-in, in a pretty comic-accurate costume, we soon jump to the young boy in the audience who grows up to be a struggling actor with a burning desire to play his childhood hero on the big screen.
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The second episode of Ironheart gives us Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) freaking out about her successful artificial intelligence which her subconscious crafted off of the memories of her dead best friend Natalie (Lyric Ross). We also get Riri meeting, and blackmailing, a black market tech collector (Alden Ehrenreich) for pieces necessary to patch her armor heading into her first job with the Hood‘s (Anthony Ramos) crew (which is successful, but a bit more complicated than necessary with N.A.T.A.L.I.E.’s continued distractions). It, like the first episode, is largely fine, and Riri’s interaction with a character who is more important than he initially appears gives us some fun moments, but the heist is rather bland and I’m still waiting for things to pick up which we probably won’t get until Riri’s eventual hero turn that seems pretty far off at this point.
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Ironheart – Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up? Read More »
Originally planned for a 2023 release, Dominique Thorne reprises her role of Riri Williams from Wakanda Forever who, for no real reason, left the comforts of Wakanda at the end of the movie despite it being obviously the perfect place for her to continue her education. As the series needs to break the character down, in terms of the story it wants to tell, that means we’re reintroduced to Riri as a struggling college student at MIT who, despite her intelligence and skill, relies on under-the-table deals to fix other students’ projects for the money needed to explore her own interest of recreating an Iron Man suit (which, she already accomplished in Wakanda, and also again at MIT).
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