Spoilers

“Beloved”

This week’s Secret Invasion week was outstanding, but just too short for me. I have to say that there are some awesome scenes in this series, but I feel the six episode format does not allow for them to really go into depth enough on what they have done. That’s a shame.

Of course, they only have six episodes so we have to take what we get.

This week, to no one’s surprise, Emilia Clarke turned out to be not dead. She had given herself the power of Extremis and she healed from the bullet hole from Gravik is episode three. We do not get much more with G’iah this week though, a short scene with her father was about all there was.

Her father, Talos, had a much more impactful episode and the shock ending where Gravik,

apparently, killed Talos as he and Nick Fury were rescuing the President of the United States from Skrull attack was shocking. Nick Fury leaving Talos’s body on the ground and taking off with the President in tow was also shocking.

The action of that ending scene with the Skrulls, led by Gravik, who showed off his Super Skrull-Groot powers, was some excellent action. Much of it felt practical which is a nice change of pace. The explosions sending the cars of the presidential motorcade flipping were well done. Talos’s apparent sacrifice to help save the President was well done too.

This episode revealed for certain that Rhodey was indeed a Skrull. We have no idea how long he has been a Skrull, but this Skrull was absolutely becoming cocky and filled with the power that he has. His hotel room conflict with Fury showed how overconfident this Skrull has become. Watching Fury play with Skrull-Rhodey was fun.

The best scene of the episode came between Fury and Priscilla. As they meet in a church, we see Rhodey instruct Priscilla to kill Fury and, when she arrived home, there Fury was, waiting for her. He had bugged her and he knew of the instructions coming form Rhodey so their tête-à-tête at the table became more intense.

This scene provided us with more of an insight into the relationship between Fury and Priscilla than we have gotten to this point and we can see the love between them even though both knew that something drastic was about to happen.

The scene where both of them fired their guns was extremely well done. I really thought Priscilla was doomed here so when it was revealed that they both had fired past their other, I was very pleased.

As I said earlier, this episode was just over 30 minutes long and it felt way too short. With just two episodes remaining, I hope they provide enough time for the show to sufficiently stick the landing. Plus, no Olivia Colman this week and that is unacceptable.