Alien Nation, FINAL

[setsuled]

In thinking about last night's finale for Secret Invasion, I find myself reminded of Oscar Wilde's story "The Sphinx Without a Secret". It's about a mysterious woman who is observed visiting a house in secret only for it to turn out that her actions were done entirely to excite intrigue, that she in fact lacked any curious mystery in her life. At the bottom of Secret Invasion, likewise, there is nothing. The ruse doesn't seem to have worked so well as it did for Wilde's character.

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Secret Invasion is available on Disney+.

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[goodbyebird]

Secret Invasion, or: How Not To Do a Spy Or Any Other Miniseries by selenak.
Now, rather than going on a rant of how Secret Invasion is bad, I'd rather go for a bit of why it failed (and why Hawkeye did succeed) (for me, as always this is subjective). Because it's not that there are new characters with a narrative focus (both shows have those) and new relationships in addition to the movie established ones. Or the inherent clichés or sillness of the premise (part of the parcel).