Moon Knight is off to a good start, but there’s one Marvel show it can’t take down…
Oscar Isaac’s new show is doing well with viewers
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Moon Knight, the latest offering fromMarvelStudios, has gotten off to a good start with viewers.
The TV show is set in the present day and follows Oscar Isaac’s Steven Grant, an employee in a museum gift shop who, while living a seemingly ordinary life, suffers from terrible blackouts. After one such blackout, he discovers that he has Dissociative Identity Disorder, a mental health condition whereby a person has multiple personalities.
His other persona is a ruthless mercenary called Marc Spector, an earthly avatar of Khonshu, the Egyptian God of the moon and vengeance. This other persona grants Spector superhuman abilities, which allow him to moonlight as the vigilante known as Moon Knight.
Moon Knight debuted onDisney Pluson Wednesday (March 30), and the data for its early performance on the streaming service is now in.According to Samba TV,which measures the viewing habits of three million Smart TV households across the US, 1.8 million US households caughtMoon Knightin its first days of release.
Internationally, Moon Knight was watched by 277,000 households in the UK in its first five days of release, 88,000 households in Germany, and 11,000 in Australia. By way of comparison, that puts the show level-pegging withFalcon and the Winter Solider, around 100,000 ahead ofWandaVision, and 300,000 ahead ofHawkeye.
Not bad for a relatively unfamiliar comic book hero – but there’s still one man to factor in, and, at the moment, he looks untouchable.
Who has Moon Knight failed to overshadow?
Loki. In the Tom Hiddleston-led show’s first five days on Disney Plus, it pulled in 2.5 million viewing households.
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As well as that, Lokialso holds the record for the most-watched Disney Plus season series finale, with 1.9 million households tuning in for its conclusion.
Does that spell trouble for Moon Knight?
Absolutely not. Tom Hiddleston has been a stalwart of the MCU for more than a decade, and his character commanded tremendous name recognition.There’s even a recent TechRadar article that ranked him as the best of Marvel’s villains.
Oscar Isaac’s Moon Knight, on the other hand, is brand new to theMCU, with no appearance in any previous movie or series. So, all things considered, a second place start is pretty good-going for a brand new character.
Critics have praised the show, too.TechRadar’s Tom Power loved it, calling it “a captivating, innovative TV series unlike anything Marvel has produced so far,” while the show boasts a very healthy87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
As with everything with made by Marvel these days, there’s a long-time plan for the character, but Isaac isn’t contracted beyond theshow’s six episodes. However, with numbers like this, the superhero studio will be very encouraged.
Tom Goodwyn was formerly TechRadar’s Senior Entertainment Editor. He’s now a freelancer writing about TV shows, documentaries and movies across streaming services, theaters and beyond. Based in East London, he loves nothing more than spending all day in a movie theater, well, he did before he had two small children…
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