To its credit, Eternals regularly snapped me out of that daydream. I was so disengaged and disappointed by the new Marvel film adaptation-premiering exclusively in theaters on Friday, November 5-that my mind wandered into a different kind of 'what if' than Marvel Studios likely intended. Each episode focused on one or two of the lead characters-and juxtaposed those stars' current-day relationships with beautifully rendered, historically accurate callbacks to their adventures in other epochs. This dream series felt like a more Lost-ified version of the old TV show Heroes, where mythological icons contended with a mix of global stakes and emotional bonds, then had to unite with both purpose and superpowers over a complicated span of thousands of years. There, I saw myself gripped by weekly installments of my new favorite TV series, itself based on Marvel's Eternals. Sersi has a heart-to-heart with her human romantic interest, Dane Whitman (Kit Harrington).įor much of the 2 hour 37 minute runtime of Marvel's Eternals, I found my consciousness floating out of my body, through the lobby doors of the theater, and into an alternate reality version of my home.
