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Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss. Excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
YES DAY - Netflix
Allison (Jennifer Garner) and Carlos (Edgar Ramirez) decide to give their three kids a yes day , where for 24 hours the kids make the rules.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - Disney+
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Sam Wilson/Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) team up in a global adventure that tests their abilities - and their patience. We ve done a deep dive on how this may set up big future Marvel movies right here.
Which is why it is totally okay for Disney to make a misstep every now and then, and while
Raya and the Last Dragon isn t an out-and-out dud, it certainly does feel like the Mouse House at its least imaginative.
We dive in deep with over 500 years of exposition to get through: Raya (Kelly Marie Tran) is the latest member of a group of soldiers who defend a powerful gem that was left behind by the last of the dragons, created to hold back clouds of evil known as the Druun.
When Raya trusts Namaari (Gemma Chan), who breaks the gem, allowing warring clans to grab fragments of it for themselves, the Druun is freed, and immediately set about turning any humans they come into contact with to stone, including Raya s overly-trusting father Banja (Daniel Dae-Kim).
Okay, so, before we get too deep into it, yes, those first two episodes were. shaky. Or, at least the very least, they were at the time. There was a sinking feeling initially that Disney+ and Marvel had made a massive tonal misstep with
WandaVision, but having recently rewatched all eight episodes again ahead of the finale, they definitely take on a different vibe.
It is only on through the almost clips-show delivery of Previously On. do we fully appreciate the relentlessly grim life that Wanda Maximoff has endured to date, and those first two and a bit episodes take on a completely new meaning; an incredibly hurt woman trying to find solace the only way she knows how.