Marvel Studios has finally unleashed Moon Knight on Disney+ and it certainly delivers! The first episode, “The Goldfish Problem,” is by far one of the trippiest, craziest, and most action-packed MCU shows yet! Don’t take my word for it, let’s dive in!
Waking Up | After an unseen man puts broken glass into his shoes and dons them before exiting some kind of tomb, we cut to London, where Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) wakes up with a tether around his leg, sand around the bed and the front door taped shut. After feeding his one finned goldfish, Gus, he goes to work at a museum with an exhibit on Egyptian mythology and educates a little girl on the mistakes the museum made, which irks his boss at the gift shop. A coworker tells him about their date at a steakhouse, which Steven has no memory of.
The Trippy Part | Steven goes to bed that night and listens to sleep aid tapes while messing with a Rubik’s Cube. He then suddenly ends up in a field by a village with a voice in his head telling him to give the body back to Marc. Men with guns then chase after him, since he has a golden scarab in his pocket, and runs into the village, where the man with glass in his shoes, who introduces himself as Arthur (Ethan Hawke) and asks the villagers to be judged by him. One woman is judged as guilty and Arthur simply touches her and she drops dead.
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Arthur sees Steven in the crowd and orders him to hand over the scarab, but when Steven tries to, his hand retracts. Arthur sends his men after Steven, but he blacks out and then wakes up with the men dead around him. He steals a cupcake delivery van- seriously- and the men give chase, with Steven continually blacking out during the chase and waking up moments later with dead men around him. Steven then wakes up back in his apartment and assumes that the whole thing was a dream.
What the Fish | Steven notices that Gus now has two fins instead of one and then remembers his date, but when he calls her, she says that the date was two days ago. Steven returns to his apartment and finds a hidden key and Motorola Razor in his ceiling and the phone rings and a woman named Layla demands to know where he was and calls him Marc. Another blackout and Steven is now on a bus and sees Arthur following him into the museum. Arthur rambles about an Egyptian god who was betrayed by Avatar, which Steven confuses with the James Cameron movie, but Steven manages to get away.
That night, a crazy “Stranger Things” Demogorgon-looking thing chases after him and Arthur’s voice demands that he hand over the scarab. Steven hides in the restroom and his reflection speaks to him and urges him to give him control so he can save them. Next thing we see is Moon Knight in white robes beating the monster into a bloody pulp.
Moon Knight is now streaming on Disney+