Secret Invasion: Spring 2023 on Disney+
Enough movies. Let’s return to some Disney+ series, cause there are some big ones coming in 2023. The biggest of all may be Secret Invasion, which revolves around Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, who’s trying to thwart a clandestine alien takeover of Earth.
Some of the Marvel Disney+ series have seemed a little disposable, but it looks like Marvel Studios is taking this one seriously, packing it with cameos and presenting our heroes with a very interesting threat. There’s some big-name talent involved, too, including Oscar winner Olivia Colman and Game of Thrones veteran Emilia Clarke.
The Marvels: July 28, 2023 in theaters
Captain Marvel came out in 2019 and introduced the world to Carol Danvers, one of the strongest superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Her new movie, The Marvels, will send her on a mission with a couple of more recent additions to the MCU: Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel; and Monica Rambeau, who gained superpowers in WandaVision.
The premise is this: whenever any of these three women use their powers, they start swapping places with each other, for reasons unknown. You can see what that looks like in the clip above, from the very end of the Ms. Marvel show on Disney+. The trio will have to team up to find out what’s going on. We’ll find out what’s up when they do in July.
Loki season 2: Summer 2023 on Disney+
Loki was one of the better Disney+ series released by Marvel so far. It followed the titular god of mischief as he created merry hell at the Time Variance Authority, a sort of extra-dimensional bureaucracy dedicated to making sure alternate realities don’t start getting out of hand. (Marvel is really going all in on this multiverse theme.) The first season also introduced us to a Loki variant named Sylvie as well as an amiable TVA bureaucrat named Mobius M. Mobius.
That season left off on a big cliffhanger, as Slyvie kills the mysterious being at the end of time known as He Who Remains, which creates an opportunity for his far more malevolent variant Kang the Conqueror to stake a claim on the TVA. This all sounds confusing, and it is, but it’s also funny and fleet-footed, with plenty of sci-fi-themed laughs and adventure along the way.
Loki is the first MCU series on Disney+ to get a second season, so expectations are high.