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🌟 Marvel And Hulu's Runaways 🌟 Finale 🌟 Review 🌟 8.5/10 🌟 Starting off right where the last episode of Runaways ended, “Hostile” sees the young group of kids facing their parents at the construction site. In their first real attempt to stop PRIDE. Jonah obviously intervenes and suddenly he starts to glow like Karolina, but white instead of multicolored. He quickly bests the team, but Karolina unleashes her powers and fights back. In the midst of a Dragon Ball Z standoff she tells the young gang to flee while she takes care of Jonah, who looks like he is out to kill her. We then cut to the next day. Karolina has been captured by Jonah and the Church of Gibborim. In a big reveal, Jonah tells Karolina that he is her real father. While this is going on, PRIDE decide to betray Jonah and look for their kids. They also plan to once and for all kill Jonah! But this comes after Leslie finally confesses to Tina and Robert Minoru that she and Jonah were the ones that killed...

I feel the success of Marvel’s Runaways so far has been largely down to its willingness to take its time. The show has spent the majority building its characters, creating plenty of mysteries and generally, just leaving fans gagging for more. ‘Doomsday’ managed to answer several of the show’s biggest mysteries and also gives us several of the moments we have been so eagerly anticipating. ‘Doomsday’ opened with a flashback, this time taking us back to the death of Molly’s parents, which has been one of the show’s biggest questions to date. In the flashback, we saw that they were, rather unsurprisingly, killed by PRIDE. While the parents have taken centre stage for the last 2 or 3 episodes of the show, the central group were back in the limelight this week, and the show’s plot accelerated to 100mph because of it. In a rather dark moment, Alex finally decided to name the group the Runaways, a decision made in honour of those who didn’t get the chance to escape from PRIDE. ...

🌟 Marvel's Runaways 🌟 Episode 8 Review 🌟 Tsunami 🌟 8.5/10 🌟 “Tsunami” opens up right where episode 7 left off, Victor being shot and the rest of PRIDE turning up to "save the day" without the help of Jonah. Molly is sent to live with a relative and Gert finally frees her pet dinosaur to meet with the rest of the gang. At the same time, Nico and Alex get into an argument as we discover why Alex didn’t go to Amy’s funeral. Back at the Stein house, the Yorkes try to revive Victor via the clinical way, but that was unsuccessful. PRIDE then contacts Frank. He tries to revive Victor using the miracle gloves he acquired from Jonah last episode, but that too fails. In a moment of desperation, Tina calls Jonah, who everyone was trying to avoid. When he enters the scene he takes out the sacrificial machine that brought him back to life. It then gets even more interesting and fun as he also tells PRIDE that in order to revive Victor, one of them must be sacrificed. Jonah...

8.8/10 Jonah has arrived, but the latest Marvel’s Runaways, episode seven “Refraction,” is all about Chase’s family. Even though everything up to this point has been about bringing Jonah back to full power, the episode decided to instead shine the spotlight on Victor, Chase’s father. Audiences go back in time to when Victor met his wife Janet. From what we see, Victor has always been an intelligent man. We also see the birth of Chase. Victor is absolutely in love and very kind to his son, telling his wife that he understands now what new parents say — nothing else matters but your children. The Victor we now know is nothing like the one in “Refraction.” He has been working on gaining Chase’s love and trust again, sure. But he is still distant and cold. Not to mention, has a history of hitting Chase, as we see in another flashback. What changed him? “Refraction” may have provided the answer. We see that Jonah’s magical serum makes its recipients momentarily over-the-top ...

8.4/10 Marvel’s Runaways has been really successful so far. The opening five episodes have done a fantastic job at building the characters, exploring the relationships between them, and establishing the world that they live in. The season’s sixth episode while far from a bad outing for the show, was definitely the show’s most inconsistent so far. The episode started off very strong, with a flashback to the arrival of Jonah, the mysterious figure from the end of the last episode, and the first ever sacrifice committed by PRIDE. The scene explained that, as expected, all members of PRIDE is in some way indebted to Jonah, and the sacrifices, which we discovered turned matter into energy, were done as a way of repaying him, and that they have been taking place for the last 15 years. Most of the parents' stuff in this episode was pretty solid. The episode used a gala held by PRIDE to bring every character together in one location, and for the most part, it was an effe...

10/10 Wow! Do you remember me saying, just two days ago, that it was just about the perfect time for Marvel's Runaways to pick up the pace... Well, I shit you not they have done just that and amplified it by about a thousand! Episode 5 was a Marvel in itself. We get to see the whole group of teens together, using there powers for the first real time -- with the exception of Gert and Alex -- and it's bloody awesome. I was a bit hesitant to see how they would handle the special effects side of it, but now thanks to 'Kingdom' I have complete faith in Hulu! Not only do we get to see the kids taking down there first bad-guy, but we get a deeper look into Alex's dad's past as it fills out his character and its just as shady as you first expected. Don't worry, that's not it, they didn't stop there because the parents can't bloody help themselves and are up to there weird ritual's again. Last but not least, they finally answer some key quest...

9/10 The episode kicks off with a remarkable intro sequence, as we flash back in time to Amy’s death. It seems to be a clear case of teen suicide, but Nico — freshly aware of her parents’ murderous habits — now believes it wasn't. She’s 100% convinced that the parents conspired to cover Amy’s murder, so, she seeks help from Alex before going any further. It doesn’t seem likely, given Tina’s continuing grief, but it does act as a means to create further divides between the parents and their children. Meanwhile, other secrets are being revealed. The Karolina / Chase subplot is a major one in this episode, with Karolina learning that Chase saved her from being raped (god I hate that word) back in Episode 1. Deciding to trust him, she takes a risk, and removes her snazzy bracelet once again, hoping they might figure out what it -- or shall I say she -- is . Meanwhile, Molly and Gert have a wonderful encounter with Old Lace. The plot of Marvel’s Runaways is tremendous...

8.6/10  Last night I started Marvel and Hulu's 'Runaways,' I have watched 3 episodes and I have nothing but good things to say thus far. Centering on a group of witty teens who learn they’re part of Something Bigger, and/or have superpowers. Not only are these teens special, but their parents — who, so far as anyone else knows, are just a group of particularly talented and wealthy innovators — are in fact part of a an evil-ass cult called 'Pride' and there harnessing some serious demonic shit to put toward their own nefarious ends. In the comics as soon as the kids come to the realisation of what there parents are up to, they almost immediately become the "Runaways" promised in the title, but, here the first 3 episodes are alot slower, which isn't a bad thing at all if your like me and you believe in character development. Hulu have done it the right way and given each character -- kids and parents -- room to grow into real characters that w...