Moon Knight season 1, episode 6 review: Gods and Monsters

“You are the only real superpower I ever had.” Spoilers for Moon Knight season 1, episode 6 follow.

Marc has entered the Field of Reeds while Steven is stuck in the Duat, so what does that mean for Moon Knight and Khonshu?

In the meantime, it means that Harrow is able to free Ammit from her prison and enact their form of vengeance on the world.

Here’s everything that went down in Moon Knight‘s season finale “Gods and Monsters”.

Resurrection

A good portion of this episode has to deal with with Marc trying to fight his way back to life or whether to accept his fate and honestly, it’s probably the best the show has been – speaking as someone who has enjoyed Moon Knight, but not loved it. However, the resurrection plot in this episode is so good that it makes the show a lot better in retrospect.

The arc that both Marc and Steven have gone on together is on full display here and it’s honestly heartwarming. Seeing these two, basically strangers who happen to share the same body, become brothers, it’s so good. And the revelation that Marc has about Steven is also so good. This does a great job of making Marc and the audience understand that, without Steven, Marc isn’t whole and it’s probably the most positive depiction of DID that’s ever been on television or film.

This leads well into the final fight as Moon Knight and Layla team up to take on Harrow, which is a much better fight than Ammit vs. Khonshu as well. Seeing both Marc and Steven participate at various points in the fight, with Marc still doing most of the fighting, it’s fun and great even amidst a pretty brutal fight scene at times. We also get the first glimpse of their third personality, Jake Lockley, as Marc blacks out when Harrow almost kills him, which is pretty great as well. And we really get to see him in the post-credit scene, as well as seeing what an absolute scumbag that Khonshu is.

Pre-emptive Justice

The biggest problem that the series had was that it didn’t explore Harrow and Ammit’s idea of pre-emptive vengeance as well as it could have been. Seriously, their motivation for justice and vengeance is basically act as his own version of the telepaths from Minority Report and beyond the basic premise, it’s not explored really all that much. There’s no moral complexity to Harrow really at all. From the beginning, we see that his type of justice is bad, which it is, but this could have led to an interesting moral conundrum for Marc and Steven.

And by the end of this episode, Harrow and Ammit are basically just acting on a mystical version of 1984’s thought-crimes and well, it becomes purple beams to the sky… and into Ammit’s mouth. It’s a bit disappointing that what could’ve been such a complex villain wasn’t fleshed out as fully as he could’ve been.

However, Ethan Hawke continued to give a great performance right up until the end. Unfortunately, even with the great performance, he can’t really be considered a best Marvel villain simply because of Harrow’s lack of depth. This series really needed to be longer as they crammed so much of Moon Knight’s most memorable stories into just six episodes, often just visually though, not the actual stories themselves, and it just leaves a lot to be desired.

A new hero emerges in the Moon Knight finale

As for Layla, she has a lot to do in this episode as well. From the beginning of “Gods and Monsters”, she’s on a mission to either kill Harrow or free Khonshu and she has to make a choice on what to do. But, she gets a bit of a nudge from Taweret to focus on freeing Khonshu. And unsurprisingly, once she does free him, he immediately asks if she wants to be his avatar. But instead of becoming his, she becomes Taweret’s, which leads her to fight alongside Marc and Steven, which is great.

And it may seem like such a little thing, but seeing her save a bus full of people while continuing to fight Harrow’s goons, it shows that out of everyone on this show, she is probably the truest hero of the bunch.

Moon Knight is at its best with Marc, Steven, and Layla, but falters heavily due to the surface level idea of complexity that it has for its villains.

All six episodes of Moon Knight can now be watched on Disney Plus.

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