Disney+ Just Dropped A 100% Scored, Canon MCU Show Without A Word

Eyes of Wakanda

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While I know that Disney has said it’s scaling back its Marvel TV series ambitions, what they’ve been doing lately with their “leftover” shows is nothing short of bizarre. Last time it was Ironheart, released with little fanfare in two weeks of episode dumps. Today? It’s Eyes of Wakanda, a new MCU series that unlike What If…? and its multiverses, is full MCU main-Earth canon.

Eyes of Wakanda is a four-episode series that was binge-dumped today, and it’s more like a two-hour movie with 30-minute episode lengths. The synopsis is: “Wakandan warriors throughout history go on dangerous missions to retrieve Vibranium artifacts.”

The episodes span a wide range, including one taking place during the Trojan War and another featuring the fourth Iron Fist we’ve seen in the MCU, one from far in the past. Kind of a big deal!

Again, this may be centuries before the events of the current MCU, but everything in here is canon, and it’s been added to the official timeline of the universe, beating out Captain America: The First Avenger, which obviously kicked things off during World War II.

Disney did not appear to think it was worth bothering with really any promotion for this at all, not in the run-up to launch nor today on launch day. Though I suppose it did show me it first when I logged in.

Eyes of Wakanda has made it to enough critics to gather eight reviews, all of which are positive, to give it a 100% score. I’m not sure how many more will be added here. I’ve started the series, and I already like it more than What If…?, a series that I think went deeply off the rails by the end. I don’t love the animation style, personally, but the storytelling is very solid so far.

The next two Marvel shows coming up are Marvel Zombies in December 2025 and Wonder Man in July 2026. We will also see a new season of Daredevil and the Punisher special. VisionQuest will be coming up at some point.

For now, Eyes of Wakanda is a quick watch and helps bolster the lore of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by heading further in the past than we’ve ever seen before, and the deep roots of Wakanda are the perfect mechanism to do so.

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