This show would rank as the best of the Marvel(s) trilogy thanks alone to Iman Vellani’s outrageously charismatic performance as Kamala Khan — there’s a reason Kevin Feige recently proclaimed her to be “one of the greatest bits of casting we’ve ever done.” But “Ms. Marvel” also has some big ideas on its mind, about assimilation vs. authenticity and the generational trauma of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1942. And then the show abandons all that to cram in the Department of Damage Control as a clumsy metaphor for Homeland Security. Throughout, Vellani commands your full attention, and we’re more than happy to give it to her.
Ms. Marvel (2022)
This show would rank as the best of the Marvel(s) trilogy thanks alone to Iman Vellani’s outrageously charismatic performance as Kamala Khan — there’s a reason Kevin Feige recently proclaimed her to be “one of the greatest bits of casting we’ve ever done.” But “Ms. Marvel” also has some big ideas on its mind, about assimilation vs. authenticity and the generational trauma of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1942. And then the show abandons all that to cram in the Department of Damage Control as a clumsy metaphor for Homeland Security. Throughout, Vellani commands your full attention, and we’re more than happy to give it to her.