They don’t, but it’s an effective prologue.Īnd there’s a bunch of juxtapositions between Cox and the heroes. Like they’re going to do a whole episode setting her up. With Cox’s origin story, the beginning really feels like a Marvel Netflix show. No dead bodies, but it’s the Batman Returns logic of “you blow someone up, they don’t survive.” Until all of a sudden, there’s real danger, except the bad guys are mostly boobs, so Steinfeld and Renner can kick ass. Steinfeld has a funny interchange with one of them about his relationship troubles, and Cox doesn’t want the heroes killed, so there’s never any real danger. Like, for a while, all the stuff with the Tracksuit Mafia is non-lethal because they’re jackasses. She then trains in martial arts from a young age to be a crime lord to numbskulls when she grows up. Still, the opening with young Cox (played by Darnell Besaw) and McClarnon plays sympathetic and wonderful. It lessens the impact when we later find out McClarnon ran the Tracksuit Mafia and was an actual bad guy. We find out she had to go to public school instead of deaf school because dad Zahn McClarnon couldn’t afford it. Especially since the episode opens with Alaqua Cox’s villain origin story and feels like they will spend the whole episode on her. Not a great car chase, but focusing on Steinfeld’s archery-Renner finally lets her use some of his trick arrows, though he keeps the best one for himself-it’s really distinct for the show. The New York action sequence has Renner and Steinfeld doing a car chase with bows, arrows, and bridges. It’s pretty awesome and made me think Rhys Thomas really loved the comics.Įxcept Thomas didn’t direct this episode, it was Bert & Bertie, so I guess Bert & Bertie really grok the talking heads formula. Back and forth, back and forth, just like a Marvel Comics talking heads sequence. They’re staring almost directly into the camera in one-shot close-ups, and they just have a conversation. Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld are sitting and talking to each other. This episode has some real highlights, including a great New York action sequence, but the most impressive one has got to be the comic book talking heads sequence.
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