TV Review: ‘Moon Knight’ Is Stronger On Ghoulish Atmosphere Than Superhero Excitement
metroweekly.comMoon Knight (★★★☆☆) is a hero who literally doesn’t know himself. Beneath his mask of bandages and ceremonial armor, he’s a man split in two, beset by inner demons as well as the mystical demons and deities that dog his path.Most days, as we’re led to believe from episode one, he wakes up in London as mild-mannered museum gift shop clerk Steven Grant.
Prone to sleep-walking and unexplained blackouts, Steven only vaguely begins to realize he perhaps lives a whole other life as adventurer — and maybe mercenary — Marc Spector.
In turn, Spector leads another life himself, as the supernaturally empowered protector of the vulnerable, Moon Knight.Appearing to each other in reflections, Steven and Marc bicker among themselves, two separate characters both embodied by the formidable Oscar Isaac, living up to his billing as the show’s main attraction.As the series develops an intriguingly spooky mystery around Steven/Marc’s split personality, Isaac delivers grounded psychological distress alongside monster movie terror, with moments of screwball comedy thrown in for a few laughs.The actor’s British accent as mousy Steven sounds iffy, but iffy might actually work for a character who at times is uncertain whether he is the person he thinks he is.For the audience’s sake, Isaac does enough to distinguish the two that we can discern Marc from Steven based on facial expressions alone.
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