Disney+’s ‘Echo’ Fails to Live Up to the Potential of Its Marvel Superhero: TV Review
variety.comAramide Tinubu Typically, the narratives comprising our origin story begin long before birth, often stretching back generations and centuries, linking us with ancestors we will never know and places we might never visit.
For Maya Lopez, aka Echo (Alaqua Cox), the deadly former leader of Wilson Fisk’s (Vincent D’Onofrio) Tracksuit Mafia gang, her rise started well in advance of her introduction in Disney+’s “Hawkeye.” In “Echo,” a five-chapter limited series under the new Marvel Spotlight banner, audiences learn more about the character after the conclusion of “Hawkeye,” as well as flashbacks from past events that contributed to her.
Unfortunately, none of it is particularly captivating. Before Maya turned her gun in the “Hawkeye” finale on Fisk, a man whom she’d called her uncle for the majority of her life, she had faced a family tragedy and lost her leg as a young girl living in Tamaha, Oklahoma.
The incident rips her family apart, and she and her father, William Lopez (Zahn McClarnon), flee the South Central state for the towering pillars of New York City.
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