‘Secret Invasion’ Review: Samuel L. Jackson Returns to the MCU in a Disney+ Series With Few Surprises
thewrap.com“Secret Invasion,” Marvel’s latest Disney+ series, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) notes that Talos is moving pretty well for someone north of 130 years old, while Talos points out that in human years, he’s closer to 40, and that he hasn’t even reached his midlife crisis yet. (In real life, Mendelsohn is 54.) Talos then asks the formerly eyepatched super-spy what he did for his own midlife crisis; Fury responds that he founded the Avengers, one of the serious-minded show’s few laugh lines.
Whatever crises may unfold over the course of “Secret Invasion,” meanwhile, would qualify more as the three-quarters-life variety; Fury is starting to show his age and his weariness is reflected in the show itself.That’s not a dig, especially because Jackson has always looked, sounded, and acted younger than his years.
After showing up as an early face of the MCU — handy shorthand signaling that the company was serious about tying its characters together in a bigger universe — his Nick Fury has been scarcer in the most recent phases of the project. “Secret Invasion” features his first major live-action appearance in the MCU since 2019, and it’s a long-overdue showcase that puts Jackson’s name first above the title.
Fury hasn’t even been on Earth for the last cycle of Marvel movies and TV shows; after being “blipped” back to life in “Avengers: Endgame,” he started working with the intergalactic organization S.A.B.E.R.
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