After three and a half episodes, ‘Moon Knight’s Episode 4 twist finally brought the show in line with the comic it’s adapted from.
The hippo? Probably Taweret. Moon Knight may be the riskiest Marvel series so far to hit Disney+. The six-episode series, which has run on a weekly schedule, opened with an episode that seemed utterly unconnected to the MCU and barely even tied to its comic origins. It threw audiences in the deep end of the Marvel pool, introducing the Heliopolitans without preamble, and demanded viewers keep up even as it unfolded its story via two different unreliable narrators who couldn’t account for long stretches of time. However, Moon Knight ’s Episode 4 twist, which came with only two episodes left in the season, made it all worth it. Warning: Spoilers for Moon Knight Episode 4 follow. Thus far, Moon Knight has felt a bit like “ Marvel Does The Mummy.” Steven Grant, an under-employed Egyptologist, discovered his body was hijacked by Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon. He shared his physical form with Khonshu’s chosen avatar, Marc Spector, a former tomb raider. Spector’s mission led Grant to meet Arthur Harrow, Khonshu’s former avatar. Harrow’s mission was to find an ushabti, an Egyptian funerary figurine usually buried with the dead. The ushabti he wanted holds the soul of the Egyptian goddess, Ammit. She was imprisoned there by the rest of the Egyptian god pantheon (known as the Heliopolitans) after she slaughtered thousands in the name of preventative justice. Harrow planned to free her, and he would become her avatar in return. Spector/Grant teamed up with Spector’s wife Layla and headed to Egypt, hoping to reach the tomb before Harrow.
