The premiere of MoonKnight, while languishing in its setup, opens the door to an all-new genre for the MCU. Our (spoilery!) review:
Editor's note: The below article contains spoilers for Episode 1 of Moon Knight. Of all the Marvel projects premiering this year, Disney+’s Moon Knight is perhaps the most anticipated of them all. With the arrival of Oscar Isaac — coming off the high of starring in last year’s Dune — to the MCU, many fans are excited, and for good reason.
Let’s get this out of the way while we’re at it: Isaac’s accent as Steven Grant, one of several characters he is set to play throughout Moon Knight, is wildly ill-advised, but not at all surprising. With a history of strange accent work behind him , it almost feels like settling back into a familiar routine with Isaac, and it works for Steven’s bumbling nature, which we are very quickly exposed to as he runs late for work at the museum and ends up at odds with his boss, Donna .
For context: Ammit was known as the “Devourer of the Dead” to ancient Egyptians, a crocodile/lion/hippopotamus hybrid who was a vital part of passage to the Egyptian afterlife. The heart of the dead was weighed on a set of scales against a godly feather, and if the heart was deemed impure, Ammit would devour it, leaving a person’s soul forever adrift, unable to pass through to the afterlife.
We see only mere hints of who Steven really is throughout the episode, breadcrumbs left at the audience’s doorstep to entice them into wanting more. We hear F. Murray Abraham as the voice of Khonshu, Egyptian god of the moon and the person/entity/thing in control of Steven’s entire existence, who appears when Steven awakes in a foreign country with no memory of arriving there. We also only see brief snippets of Marc Spector, the host of the dissociative identity system of which Steven is a part.
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