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Marvel’s small screen experiment has produced some of the most talked-about shows of the year, from WandaVision to Loki. Their fifth and final Marvel Cinematic Universe show of 2021, Hawkeye, is set to debut on November 24 on Disney+.
The arrow-slinging superhero, played for the last decade by Jeremy Renner, could be a strong character for a TV series. Hawkeye doesn’t have any superpowers. He’s a street-level hero. He protects neighborhoods, not entire planets. The central question of the show seems to be, “Will Hawkeye make it home for Christmas?”
The small scale premise is promising. Some of the Marvel shows have faltered when they try to grow too large in scope, stuffing in too many connections to the movies and staging too many CGI battles. Loki, the most highly-lauded MCU show so far, wisely centered its climactic moment on a conversation between the villain and the hero, rather than a space battle that would have looked a bit lame compared to the ones on the big screen. Hawkeye certainly won’t pull punches: The trailer pays homage to Die Hard, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and a long lineage of action movies set during the holiday season. But the fights are smaller and the stakes lower.
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That’s not to say that Hawkeye will be totally divorced from the rest of the MCU. The show will introduce a major player in the next phase of this cinematic universe, Kate Barton, played by Hailee Steinfeld. In the Fraction comics, Kate becomes Clint’s protege before eventually taking on the Hawkeye mantle herself. Florence Pugh—who plays Yelena, the heir apparent to the Black Widow title—is also set to star in at least six episodes of the series.
Here’s everything you need to know about the characters and plot of Hawkeye before you stream the series.
A refresher on what’s happened to Hawkeye in the MCU so far
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Source : time
