Marvel’s new limited series, “Echo,” is deeply frustrating, a show with good intentions and poor aim. Ostensibly full of depth but never hitting the bullseye— seemingly about the complicated emotional agonies of families, adopted, found, and betrayed and the burdens of trauma—most of it is told without meaningful resonance.
Placing its highest premium on violence and longwinded action—showy sequences that go on for six minutes, but so what?— while it considers much, “Echo” and actually has very little to say about any of it.
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