Martin Carr reviews the season finale of Marvel’s Inhumans… From its inception through to initial release on IMAX screens Inhumans has felt shackled, cumbersome and hard work. Marred by simplistic structuring which won it no easy converts and soon lost anyone else, this expensive exercise in corporate storyboarding did Marvel no favours. Too many cooks […]

Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… As expected things move at a glacial pace and nothing of substance really happens. There is teleportation, regal stand offs and cloak and dagger missions which serve to get us from point A to point B but feel shiny yet flat. Any sense of progression is […]

Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… Whoever keeps coming up with these taglines needs reprimanding. Gorgon is not even the central focus of this episode and in fact gets less screen time than he deserves. That the writers have seen fit to bless him with a slightly expanded backstory does nothing to […]

Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… It has taken five weeks for Inhumans to amount to more than a fragmented mess of scenes, effects and paper-thin character arcs. Thankfully after trawling through the mire of irrelevance, wasted opportunity and needless segues we reach something positive worth mentioning. This episode has pace, broadens […]

Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… There is a reason why Inhumans continues to nosedive in the ratings. It fails to engage, lacks logical narrative reasoning and on top of that is frustratingly fragmented. Our king and queen Medusa and Black Bolt are standoffish, stoic, bossy, slightly condescending and two-dimensional, while Maximus, Crystal, […]

Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… Having established the majestic setting and regal qualities of this royal family before undermining it with mutiny, Inhumans has put firm foundations. Episode three only carries on these themes as further plotting, social manipulation and infighting continues. What we have here then is a comic book tent […]