The Reel Rejects - SECRET INVASION Ep. 1x1 - Recap, Breakdown, Review, & Ending Explained!! | SERIES PREMIERE

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

SHOCKING ENDING! Build a team of your favorite characters and explore Middle-earth like never before! Download for free here: https://bit.ly/RRLOTR1 Thanks to EA for sponsoring! In this reaction video, we watch and react to the first episode of Marvel Studios' Secret Invasion, featuring Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Ben Mendelsohn (Talos), Martin Freeman (Everett K. Ross), Olivia Coleman (Sofia), Don Cheadle (James Rhodes), kingsley ben-adir (Gravik) and Emilia Clarke (G'iah). We discuss the Maria Hill death scene, the Skrull invasion, and what to expect for Episode 2. Dive in with us on this exciting journey into the MCU with 'Secret Invasion' Episode 1 on Disney+. In our first time watching, we're going to share our genuine reactions and conduct a comprehensive review that leaves no stone unturned. Here's our in-depth breakdown of key scenes, as we uncover easter eggs meticulously embedded by Marvel Studios, and speculate on theories that could impact future episodes. Nick Fury's return and the intricate machinations of the Skrulls form the crux of this episode, which serves as a game-changer in the Marvel Universe. Beware, spoilers abound! So, whether you're a Marvel veteran or new to the MCU, join us in exploring the fascinating world of 'Secret Invasion'. #SecretInvasion #Marvel #MCU #MarvelStudios #Episode1 #Disney#DisneyPlus #NickFury #Skrulls #firsttimewatching #reaction#review #breakdown #eastereggs #theories Become A Super Sexy Reject For Full-Length T.V. & Movie Reactions! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Coy Jandreau On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CoyJandreau Support The Channel By Checking Out Our Bomb A** Merch: http://shopzeroedition.com/collections/reel-rejects-merch0:00 POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh yeah, real quick. Full-length Ratch and watch along. We sync up with your own copy of Secret Evasion available for a super sexy rejects over at our Patreon page. But because this is the first episode, first one is public. It is free for everyone. So there's a link in the description box and pin comment. You could sync up with us over there if you like. Let's do this. Oh, no, not cool. No. Yeah, that sucks. What?

not happy. God, what a cold shot, too. I was literally like five minutes thinking ago, thinking that, oh, this is really cool that we get to see, like, Kobe Smolders really get a chance to shine as Maria Hill in a more serious role. She's so good. She's so good. Did they really just kill one of the best actresses in the MCU?

I don't know if I like that choice. She's so good. I'm kind of upset by that. Yeah, Sam. I'm holding out hope that it's some kind of mislead or some kind of. kind of some sort of espionage like i get it raises the stakes and shows how serious i understand the choice but the narrative choice but not the character choice it's like but come on we finally got a show where we really get a chance to hang out with maria hill kind of i just love

coby smolder's take on her like that would have been really special yeah a little back and forth on that choice oh well no fridging is good to you guys always the move will be in the thumbnail. Yep. I think that'll go over well for everyone. I think that'll be the way to get happy comments. It's how we get clicks. It's all about the clicks.

Throw the dead body. With a big arrow pointing to the wound. I was not supposed to know you don't watch the show you. Even though the airs tomorrow or whatever. Wow. Bold choice. That pilot was absolutely incredible. I don't think there's going to be a post-credit scene.

It's just Maria Hill waking up. Nick! Maria Hill will return Well, fuck you Marvel Whoa That was taken back Say it ain't so It's interesting

It was our first Marvel reaction The three of us have done together Where we were A lot more serious than usual I'm so invested It's such a serious show And they really delivered on The seriousness

That felt very It's very fascinating to me to take one of the biggest event comic book runs with a bunch of Marvel characters, and it's just craziness. And then they go, now we're going to make the most grounded show. Yeah. I've heard Disney Plus show out of this massive event, a true adaptation of sorts. Johnny, what did you think, my friend, lay it on the line? I enjoyed it. I thought it was a solid start, and I mean, yeah, I like, it makes a lot of sense a story like this to go for these Cold War, you know, secret agent espionage, SpyCraft sort of story.

And at least thus far, I'm very intrigued. I mean, you know, they're just set in the stage, so there's plenty more twist and turns to come. But I like just re-acquainting with Fury and Maria Hill, R-I-P, and Talos and all that stuff. And, yeah, just loving the, I don't know, the feeling, the vibe, the aesthetic, the setting, you know, being sort of immersed in this Russian environment, I think, is a nice change of pace from everything. And, yeah, it seems like at least at the outset, they're willing to have, along with your intrigue, some interesting little, you know, semi-relevant conversations and whatnot. So thus far, I'm intrigued. It's really interesting. How's this time of King to Conquer, Coy? Take it away.

I think my favorite thing is actually the pace and tone is it really trust the audience to let us have so much dense dialogue that's exposition heavy but it's delivered so incredibly well that not only did it do the thing that I thought wouldn't happen until two or three episodes in where it is able to explain what the scrolls are so upset about that they're willing to change where we left them

so many people were like wait the scrolls were good guys at the end of Captain Marvel I didn't think within the first act of the first episode I'd know everything I needed to know about setting up secret invasion. That's all through incredible writing and directing where it doesn't feel frenetic, it doesn't feel rushed, it doesn't feel paced poorly in dialogue or style.

We talked to the cinematography, but overall, the actual tension in the show comes from the concepts. Like, you know the stakes, you know the world building, because it's giving you exposition in almost every scene,

but the concepts are so heady and the world is so aggressive that it doesn't ever feel like it's about two people talking in a room and it is like this show is very much sitting and talking and it's that's what good spy shows are to me and they nailed a really unique tone that I did not know they could um this is up there with like the loki pilot for me and loki's my favorite show so like this is a really special debut uh wanda vision's up there as well but like those are the ones that are the most different like the loki was so existential and wanda vision

was so mysterious this is is so spy cold war you mentioned misdemeanor Hospital. We mentioned a bunch of things. I didn't know that Marvel would. I mean, there was there was so many jokes in here. I was like, that is an adult joke. Like, they really went with not a Disney Plus audience here. I'm really impressed. Yeah, but the jokes are still within the character. 100%. There's nothing jokey. It's jokes that are like you'd have in a Cold War. There's nothing that feels that that Marvel humor complaint that people have often lobbied against the MCU. You don't get any of that here at all. I love Fury post blip. I love that it addresses so many things that I wish they'd address sooner. Yeah, and they really do they give you this this really

clever way of setting up Nick Fury where it's see what's cool about we're talking a lot about plot and moon and atmosphere, all these things. What they did an excellent job at doing because the exposition makes sense that you're dealing with a lot of government and bureaucracy, a bunch of different people and factions and alliances. So you have to spout the exposition because it's mission driven. So you have to give the exposition. So it's well justified. But the same time, it's so character driven. Everything, everything is motivated by character choices and the, the personal feelings that everyone has. Like, I love the position that Talos is in of he does not want a war whatsoever. And he's, he sympathized and he cares. Even for the people that he's against, like,

the last thing he wanted to do was kill that scroll who was on the opposite side of his belief system. And you see that it puts him at odds with the way how Sam Jackson decides to handle it, or Nick Fury decides to handle it with actually killing him. He's really bothered and destroy by it. The last thing he wants is death for any of his people because despite the difference in beliefs, he doesn't want any of them to die. So I love the position that puts Talos in, but for Nick Fury especially, what they did a really great job. Normally, Nick Fury, no matter if he's gone rogue or is at the top of the agency, you feel like in some way this guy's in control, in some way this guy's got a mastermind position. And you could see that he is, a lot of people keep commenting

on it. He's not the Nick Fury that he used to be. And that's more than just like, like, I'm grizzled and more rough around the edges. That's, he lacks in certain ways because there's conflict within himself. There's a lack of confidence within himself as well as he's, you know, dusting off the old, fill in the phrase, John, dusting off the old, the old earth body, something, you know what I mean? He's getting back into the field. Get back into the saddle.

Yeah, yeah, that's where I'm trying to go with that. Yeah, because with Nick Fury, they put him in a position where I find myself actually rooting for him instead of going he's got this handled and I thought that's how I might feel like he's got this handle he's going to say some like badass shit I love that he's actually an underdog and he's not a full

underdog but he's just enough of an underdog and yeah the way how they deal with the post blip situation with his performance I wonder whose choice that was because that's something that they've acknowledged about post split that they've talked about and like like Falcon and Winter Soldier tried doing it when I was trying to get a loan of

comedically but they don't really this is the first time like wow the performance here is so human of like this is the disturbed character that I've been waiting to see after such a horrendous event you know

that that happen within the Marvel cinematic universe and I love that it's a movie one actor I love that it's Nick Fury who we've been with for so long who we care about so much Sam Jackson who we're invested in I really love that the exemplification of the trauma of the blip is through Nick Fury Because I wouldn't have expected that.

Like, I love that we've been wanting something. And a lot of times Marvel does a good job being like, this is the character that embodies this whole thing you want. Yeah. I'm really surprised and impressed and it's Nick Fury. I'm really enjoying this performance. Yeah. And Olivia Coleman is Sonia,

I thought it was an excellent scene as well. There's just a great writing and character scenes throughout. That's what bum me out so much about Maria Hill dying at the end of this. I really wanted her to get to play. Yeah, that's the feeling. Like Kobe Smolders. I really wanted Kobe to get to play. Like it's about her.

I really kept feeling. I'm like, damn, this is so cool. We finally get to see Kobe Smolters. Maria Hill actually get to time. Instead of show up for like five minutes. Action, actually, be so cool. Great dialogue. Okay, bye.

Well, she has such presence. Like, her performances are really great, and she has just so, you can tell she's thinking, Maria Hill thought she's fully embodied the character, and it's just such a bummer to have the prospect of not getting to watch more of that. Because, you know, like, a lot of people obviously know her from how I met your mother, but she can, like, really act? I know her from Jack Reacher never to go back.

Of course, that's right. Well, and I mean, she worked her ass off to try and save that. Like, she's good in that bad movie, but, like, she's great here. Well, John, what did you think about Amelia Clark as Gina? Yes, as Broderick. Guy, I mean, I liked her so far. I mean, Amelia Clark is an actor who I'm still waiting to really click into. That's right, man.

No, I don't want to. any women on these shows. That little girl with the ball was too much for me. In fact, I want men dressed as women like Shakespeare intended. Yes. But yeah, I mean, like, as the outset of the mission and for her relation, obviously the conflict between her and Talos

and finding out about the death of her mother and everything, like, you know, there's lots for that character and I like wondering if she's a double agent. Yeah. And, I mean, her presence just performance-wise, I think, is good so far. You know, again, I'm still waiting to be like, I want to have those, I want to be

talking about Amelia Clark like I'm talking about Kobe Smolders right now and I'm sure you know hopefully over the show we'll get there but right now fitting introduction at the very least well I really liked her scenes with Ben Mendelsohn specifically I bought the father-daughter relationship I like the duplicitous there it is there it is take another drink it's going to be a show of duplicitousness so much duality well there is if there's one show for my dialogue itself to these words It's cool. It is certainly that.

Because, yeah, it is cool that with the scrolls that they, there is such a duplicitous. Truly. Truly. It really is. Not just physically, but emotionally all around. And I'm excited to see Amelia Clark's role grow here. Olivia Coleman, I thought was a nice presence. That opening, see, you know what really surprised me about it was I was expecting something that just kind of reminded me a winter soldier in its tone because it's Marvel.

And at first, I thought, like, am I liking this more to like Mission Impossible? But as it played out, I likened it more to old school thrillers like Mentorian candidate or, what's that Robert Redford? All the presidents met in that. Yeah. All the presidents meant so good. Yeah, that one. Yeah. Those kind of, or like, Tinker Taylor's, those kind of spy, yeah, those kind of spy movies.

And it was less, it's a fact when it started getting like action heavy, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was really good. Yeah, I was more surprised by that because, yeah, I imagine there'll be, they got two tones that they're dealing with here. You got like an invasion of the body snatchers type of flare and close encounters, obviously. But then you got, they lean way more heavily into the,

the, um, no, I don't know, no, it's a single name. Yeah, that's a duality of tones. It's just extra enhancement. Yeah, that was good. That was, that was a, that's good show. I was really impressed with not only are they improving, I think, on the comic. I like Secret Invasion the comic, but I don't think it's like...

I just don't love event comics. And that's fair. Yeah, I just don't know. And the book feels very much like it needed to be an event. This feels like the corner of Marvel I've been waiting for. It's actually improving on the event feeling of the comic because I think that the grounded level Marvel is much more interesting than cosmic for me a lot of times. And what they're able to do here is really make the most a supernatural thing. thing, an alien invasion, the most grounded

show. Yeah. I'm so impressed. Fascinating approach. A duality. All right. Well, before we end this, John, what do you think of the music? I liked the music quite a bit. I thought it was nice. It wasn't too in your face, but it definitely bolstered those classic vibes. You're talking about,

I'm going to have to hear more of it to really kind of log the flavors of the show, but thus far, I thought it was good. It enhanced everything without distracting me at any point. But what do you think about the pod security scroll? Played by James Bing McNaught. My favorite character.

Listen up, all right? There's a whole other conspiracy that's going to link to this one specific character. So keep a lookout for Pod Security Scroll, moving forward, because he's going to be the key to everything. And I called it, so just when that happens, I want you all to acknowledge, you know, that I called it. All right, well, I'm just excited.

It looks like Grace Boyle, who's an acting double, got an actual role, a White House age, who's promoted. So I like any time a little day player role gets happening. So congratulations, Grace Boyle. don't worry don't worry guys I feel good about this show

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