In one episode, the one-hour special was better than She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel and Moon Knight combined. The main reason for this was focus. There was no wasted time. This might not seem like a bold statement, when you consider it introduced three of my favorite Marvel characters Jack Russell, Elsa Bloodstone and Ma-thing to the live action universe, in a manner that respect the source material, though they should have sprung for the red hair dye for Bloodstone. Elsa is likely my 2nd favorite female super-hero after She-Hulk, A show which has been plagued by a lack of focus and wasting complete episodes.
Filmed in black and white to pay homage to the Universal Monster movies, after all the title character is basically Marvel's Wolf-man. There was not a great deal of him in wolf form, but what was there worked. He was in his hybrid wolf man like form, which I prefer over showing were-wolves as just big wolves. Man-Thing's potential as the Nexus of all realities is not really hinted at and he comes across as the new Groot. But I can live with that, and he looks fabulous. The show was way more violent that I expected from Disney, with Elsa taking an axe to someone's head, my only complaint is in the test of hunter's ritual they could have used characters from the comics.
Fiege has hinted at the fact the dark corner of the Marvel Universe this opened the door for is going to factor in going forward, I liked the fact you see Wendigo and Sasquatch in the opening sequence. Maybe one day we will even get Frankenstein. I think the big take away is we can at least look forward to seeing the main protagonists showing up in the bigger picture at some point. They were more interesting than anyone Marc Spector encountered in his series for sure.
