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Echo brings the best of Netflix’s Marvel era energy to Disney Plus

Disney Plus’ Echo series feels like a sign that the Marvel Spotlight branding could become a much bigger deal.

But with characters like Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez, and her squad of tracksuit-wearing mercenaries, Hawkeye also foregrounded a kind of brutality that felt distinctly out of place in the MCU proper, and more like something one might have expected from one of Netflix’s old Marvel shows like Daredevil or Jessica Jones. Set after the events of Hawkeye, Echo follows Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) from the streets of New York City back to her hometown of Tamaha, Oklahoma as she searches for a way to crush Wilson Fisk’s (D’Onofrio) powerful crime ring and remake it in her own image. As Echo introduces Maya’s uncle Henry (Chaske Spencer), her grandmother Chula (Tantoo Cardinal), and cousins Bonnie (Devery Jacobs) and Biscuits (Cody Lightning), you can both see and feel how much effort the show’s production team put into transforming its Atlanta shooting locations into a slice of Oklahoma where Choctaw culture still thrives.

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