Two years ago, the miniseries Hawkeye premiered on Disney+, about the Avenger and his (maybe) daughter who desired to follow in his arrow-firing footsteps. Like the majority of Marvel shows produced exclusively for Disney+, it was aimed at a family audience. Soon after, Disney announced a spinoff centered around one of the characters introduced in Hawkeye. It’s taken a while it to show up, but it turns out to be very different from what it spun from.
Echo is rated TV-MA and hearkens back to the gritty shows Marvel used to make for Netflix before Disney truly got in the streaming game. In fact, Kingpin from Daredevil is right there, and Daredevil himself is said to be showing up.
The titular character is Kingpin’s adoptive daughter — Maya Lopez, a deaf Native American woman who has the power to perfectly copy the moves of anyone she’s fighting. Is the guy in the alley a Black Belt? Instantly, so is she. As the below trailer makes clear, Marvel won’t be shying away from the brutality of the concept.
It provides a little hope for Daredevil: Born Again, the revival of Matt Murdock’s series that was sent back to the drawing board after Kevin Feige discovered someone had tried to make it a legal procedural with barely any superheroics. If Disney is willing to make uncompromising dramas aimed at adults, we could get a second Daredevil series worthy of the first.
Echo will premiere on both Disney+ and Hulu, but oddly, will be vacating Hulu three months later (it will remain on Disney+). Aren’t adult shows more at home on the green-hued streamer? Ahh, who knows why anyone does anything anymore.
