Invincible (2021)

Invincible is grand, ambitious and morally complex at every turn. While many of our characters are violently pummelled and disembowelled on screen, it’s nearly as painful to think that we’ll have to wait until 2024 to see more of it.

From its slick animation to its excellent voice cast, it's a winner from top to bottom. And just when you think you know exactly which direction it's going to explore, it pulls the rug out from under you in a truly exciting way. The long-running comic series couldn't have been made into a better serialized format, and if the rest of the show is just as interesting as this one, Amazon has quite the hit on its hands.

Despite a few speed bumps and extraneous detours, Invincible Season 4 earns its keep as both the show’s biggest entry to date and its most intimate.

Aside from the dart-throwing storytelling, the character writing and drama shared between whatever sector, hero or villain, is where the series lives up to its name. To its strength, Season Two seriously considers the previous events emotionally affecting the lives of its ensemble and expands on them thoughtfully.

While too early to tell exactly how it will stack up as a season, let alone a series, in an era where lots of “ambitious” TV can feel all too predictable, “Invincible” should keep viewers on their toes — for the right reasons.

Amazon already has a searing satire about out-of-control superheroes, "The Boys," which has quickly become its signature series. "Invincible," an animated show with basically the same broad outline, thus feels a tad redundant, though the opening episodes, produced very much for adults, yield some of the same visceral thrills.

I sat down to these three episodes excited for the series to show me something new and instead watched as it treated character beats and battle sequences as buttons to mindlessly hammer on. I get that Invincible wants to make being a superhero feel like a grind. Does it have to make watching it feel just as bad?

This is my favorite show ever made, and anyone who says otherwise is obviously on some dangerous, unfiltered crack

Pretty good series. Awesome gory action. Solid plot that is kind of dark. Only thing that bugs me is all the woke propaganda. It's a very enjoyable series non the less though. Highly recommended (when you watch it for free online).

Does a spectacular back half of a first season make up for the boring as heck first half? Maybe. I was won over when the stories started getting a little more interesting. I read what felt like 100 issues of the comic back in the day and the show seems to be living up to the comics. Voice acting is pretty good. Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, and JK Simmons are spectacular. Everyone else kinda blends together. The animation itself is good and mimics the comic book style quite well. I'm excited to see what another season brings, though I remember the quality of stories in the comics fell off a cliff at some point. There's absolutely nothing political at all about this show. If you like superhero stuff, this show is pretty good.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This show is a chore to watch. Lame melodrama to pad out the run time until a genuinely disturbing and awesome fight scene occurs, rinse and repeat. The story itself is ok, it builds itself up well enough over time but it takes forever to get anywhere. The dips in animation quality really bug me. Mark/Invincible is the worst character in the own show, he’s a boring protagonist.