It’s impressive just how good Cox is here. She carries the show completely with her body language, facial expressions, and signing, and it genuinely feels special that Marvel is introducing a hero here who is a deaf Native American woman who uses a prosthetic leg played by a deaf Native American woman who uses a prosthetic leg.

What distinguishes this is how it opens a window into American Indian culture and heritage while telling a brisk, exciting mystery that steers Disney+ to a new horizon of not only more complicated and edgier storytelling but one told from an often overlooked perspective.

If you approach Echo like the five-episode movie that it is, you’ll be a lot more satisfied with the pace of the limited series’ storytelling. It’s certainly darker than much of the MCU fare we’ve been seeing, but it’s also one of the MCU series that’s most grounded in reality and family, which is refreshing to see.

“Echo” it sets up a tug of war between an action-thriller imperative and a cultural-historical imperative that ends up as a losing battle for both sides. .... Where “Echo” comes to life — often enough to make it a short, harmless binge — is in the spaces between action and history.

Though inconsistently paced and lacking in character development, Echo is still an interesting look at a pretty remarkable hero, with some thrilling fights — and the more adult tone is a welcome new direction for the MCU.

A third-rate snoozer that further waters down the once-mighty Marvel brand.

Instead of fleshing out its setting, Echo just dithers, haphazardly introducing plot points and then seeming to forget them for long stretches of time. With as many as seven writers credited on some episodes, Echo feels both overworked and unfinished, as if pieces were hacked out and rearranged at random.

Echo is a pretty boring MCU show that gets caught up in side stories and is really just a setup for Daredevil.

Echo squanders its potential by wasting Alaqua Cox’s screen presence and openness to innovation on a clichéd plot. The series, resorting to all the cringe-worthy drama scenes of an ordinary TV show, fails to entertain even in the action scenes that should be enjoyable, thanks to its weak choreography. The impact of not knowing where Marvel will connect all the introduced new solo characters is evident, making it difficult to give the series the necessary significance while watching. At some point, you wonder why you even watched the series. As I have reiterated in my recent criticisms, Marvel, unfortunately, faces a serious storytelling problem, and this chaos doesn’t seem likely to resolve anytime soon.

Daredevil and Kingpin returning is the only highlight I can think of this mediocre show that should have been a movie. I'm glad Disney fired the old CEO and now are returning to where they were.

I honestly wanted this to be good. I wanted it to channel some Hawkeye series vibes (which I loved) or some daredevil vibes (which is high in the pantheon of series for me). I wanted this to be good. It was not good. Not good at all.

Boring, nonsensical, empty characters, amateur acting, bad fight choreography, cheap cameos, waste of time... This show has nothing to offer besides "checkboxes". Who needs the story with so much "inclusion"... Cringefest! Main character quite expressionless. Kingpin destroyed as character... Daredevil only to elevate main protagonist. Just dropped this after first episode, I watched the rest on FF. PS Worse than "Secret Invasion" and that is an achievement! ** Strangly I can't edit my review on main page... WT.?***