I consider myself an MCU fan - I've enjoyed pretty much all the films and rewatch my favourites periodically. I thought the first few episodes of this were exciting but in a totally different way to how Marvel films are usually "exciting". It was unknown territory they were treading, the mystery was unfolding slowly and the setting was extremely well done, with detail commendable.

I didn't mind the episodes which departed from this as they were necessary, and to start with the mystery was still being unravelled in an interesting way. It was the penultimate episode where it fell apart for me. The good was thrown from the window and the makers ignored their previous 'Show don't tell' storytelling, going full on predictable Marvel film. I also felt a level of cringe I haven't felt before in a Marvel film at a certain Agnes flashback at the beginning of the penultimate episode.

To sum up I thought this was an incredibly fun show to start with, and it did remain quite fun. The new original direction was exciting, but unfortunately it fell back to the same old tropes, big fights, structure and uninspiring dialogue a Marvel film can have. I suppose it always was going to be that way, but the end goal we were told was to set up the next Dr Strange film. It felt like a very generic way to do that as much will have to be explained in the upcoming film. We get a resolution of sorts in the finale, but the payoff felt underwhelming, uninteresting and I think it did a disservice to the wit and creativity of opening episodes.