The critics have spoken, andMs. Marvelis a big win for Disney+. Over at Rotten Tomatoes, the new series has achieved an impressive 95% fresh rating when compiling all critics' reviews. The audience score isn’t too far behind at 87%, so most viewers have been enjoyingMs. Marvelas well.
Its rating is also the highest of any of the Marvel shows that have been released on Disney+ to date. The 95% score puts it just above the animated anthology seriesWhat If…?at 94%. That’s followed byLokiandHawkeye, which both share a 92% fresh rating, withWandaVisionlanding at 91%.Moon Knightgarnered an 86% score whileThe Falcon and the Winter Soldieris at the bottom of the list with at 83%.
Ms. Marvelis based on the Marvel Comics character and is developed for Disney+ by Bisha K. Ali. It starsIman Vellani as Kamala Khan, a teenage Pakistani-American high schooler and superhero fan who gets the chance to follow in her idols' footsteps when she gains her own superpowers. The series also stars Matt Lintz, Yasmeen Fletcher, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh, Laurel Marsden, and Azhar Usman.
You can read the official synopsis for the series below.
“Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel is a new, original series that introduces Kamala Khan, a Muslim American teenager growing up in Jersey City. An avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, Kamala is a Super Hero mega fan with an oversized imagination—particularly when it comes to Captain Marvel. Yet Kamala feels like she doesn’t fit in at school and sometimes even at home—that is until she gets super powers like the heroes she’s always looked up to. Life gets better with superpowers, right?”
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“I think Ms. Marvel always understood fan culture on such a cellular level. And it just really elevated the storytelling in a really unique way,” Iman Vellani said of the series, viaEntertainment Tonight.
“She’s a 16-year-old kid with super powers, fine. We’ve seen that before,” Vellani explained. “But she’s also a fan of every other hero within the MCU canon. And that fascination and excitement is so shared with real-life Marvel fans. So that’s why we relate to her. She reacts how we would when she gets powers. And I love that part of her. And that’s why I fell in love with her – culture and religion were never the main thing of her personality.”
Of the diversity she brings to the series, Vellani added, “It was just some part of her life, how it was for me. It was just a normal thing. And we didn’t want to make the show about a Pakistani Muslim. It was about this Avengers-loving, fanfic-writing dork, who just so happens to be a Pakistani Muslim. And I think we balance it quite well.”
You can now watch the series for yourself as you catchMs. Marvelstreaming on Disney+.
