Sigh...
I've waited until most of the episodes were out so I can binge them. Generally, that works way better than week-to-week since they insist on the "movie spread out across 6 episodes" format, usually with weak cliffhangers each week to keep engagement up.
In my opinion... this show has yet to justify its existence. When a Nick Fury show was rumored, I was excited. Love Nick Fury. When it turned into Secret Invasion, I was thrilled. That's a great comic book premise with iffy execution, so perhaps the MCU could do it better. When it was revealed that the cast would be Fury, Talos, a couple human spies (Hill and Ross) and Rhodey in a political function, I was extremely skeptical.
Secret Invasion doesn't need to be the version from the comics (which again, wasn't that great in execution) but it should be a game-changer. It should be thrilling! We've been invaded in secret for who knows how many years and you can't trust anyone. This is what ruined Tony Stark's tenure as director of Shield. Stark Enterprises was infiltrated. Spider-Woman had been a Skrull ever since she joined the Avengers over a year ago. Hank Pym had been replaced. Black Bolt had been replaced. Shield is compromised. And at the end of the day, the landscape for the universe shifted as a 'reformed' Norman Osborn killed the Skrull queen in front of the whole world and used that publicity to essentially become the most powerful man in America - leading directly to the next major storyline, Dark Reign.
This time... none of this matters to anyone we know or care about. Everett Ross (who we barely know anyway) has had one scene. Maria Hill (who we also have barely seen since 2014) had three scenes and then died to give Fury some extra motivation. Talos (who we knew from one movie and one post-credits) is dead. Now we've got two Skrulls we barely know killing some other Skrulls in a kitchen. Awesome.
We know WW3 isn't going to happen, and we know Fury is in The Marvels already, so this is just spinning its wheels - and wasting the great concept of Secret Invasion on a show where you can see the Skrull twists coming a mile away and our protagonist is old as ****.
Wasted potential, IMO. The show isn't painfully bad but I can't believe they spent $200 million to damage their own brand with a half-assed version of one of the best premises they had in their arsenal. It feels like Iron Fist - a potentially-great revenge story about an orphan who is trained as a ninja in a mystical city and fights a dragon to gain supernatural powers, but instead you get a show with no mystical city, no dragon, and the worst fight scenes in recent history. It's like they had a tiny budget and had to do the best with what they were allowed to do. But they had $200 million. I'm insane now.