Moon Knight

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In Marvel's Moon Knight, Oscar Isaac plays Steven, a mild-mannered Londoner who works in a museum gift shop. He also plays Marc, a mercenary who can turn into the mysterious Moon Knight. The series has psychodrama, tomb raiding, and a bad guy (Ethan Hawke) with very familiar motivations. Several episodes were directed by Mohamed Diab, the first Arab director in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the show also features strong performances from May Calamawy and F. Murray Abraham. Moon Knight is streaming on Disney+.

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0:00.0	The latest chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe features Oscar Isaac as the mysterious
0:09.7	Moon Knight.
0:11.1	The Disney Plus series has a lot of second-rama, a little bit of tomb raiding, and a bad guy
0:15.6	with a very familiar MCU motivation to save the world from itself by killing folk a lot.
0:22.4	I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about Moon Knight on Popculture Happy Hour
0:25.9	from NPR.
0:30.9	Joining me today is Vulture TV critic Roxana Hadadi, hello Roxana.
0:34.5	Hello, thank you for having me.
0:36.5	Oh, of course.
0:37.5	Also here with us is Sam Yellowhorse Kessler, a producer for NPR's Planet Money, Welcome
0:41.4	Sam.
0:42.4	Hello, hello, hello.
0:43.4	Oh, we're getting right into it.
0:45.4	I love it.
0:46.4	In Moon Knight, we first meet Oscar Isaac as Stephen, a mild-mannered Londoner who works
0:52.0	in a museum gift shop.
0:53.3	He chains himself to his bed every night because he keeps waking up somewhere else having
0:56.7	no memory of how he got there.
0:58.5	He's also plagued by visions of a sinister, bird-headed figure who turns out to be the Egyptian
1:03.2	God Conshu voiced by F. Murray Abraham.
1:06.5	Stephen Yeasey has dissociative identity disorder and his other self is a tomb raiding
1:11.4	mercenary named Mark, who is Conshu's chosen avatar, and has been gifted with a mummy-like
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