How Netflix’s Superhero Shows Distinguish Themselves From the Repetitive Marvel Cinematic Universe

This article originally appeared in Vulture. Let’s play a game, shall we? Tell me which Marvel flick I’m thinking of with the following description: Charming misfit whose speech is designed to either induce chuckles or sighs of empathy becomes a reluctant, flashily dressed hero; he works alongside a motley crew of companions, some of them sticks-in-the-mud and others wacky jokesters; misfit learns what it means to be an effective hero and saves the day after a battle involving copious blasts of brightly lit energy beams; final scene teases a new installment in the franchise. Pencils down. The answer, of course, is nearly all of them. We’re 13 movies deep into the so-called Marvel Cinematic...