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    'Secret Invasion' review: A closer look at Nick Fury and the Skrulls

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Jun 21, 2023 5 minutes
    Samuel L. Jackson stars as Nick Fury in Marvel Studios' "Secret Invasion."

    I've said it before and, barring the collapse of the franchise, will have cause to say it again, but I find the Marvel Television Universe parsecs more interesting, watchable, smarter, affecting and fun than its big-screen, big-everything theatrical component. With more time to tell a story and less money to obscure it in special effects, the TV shows invest more in ideas, in character, in novel ways of approaching a story. There's more talking, less fighting. The fate of the universe is, after all, less interesting than the fate of a person, since the universe will obviously outlast us, and people are notoriously fragile.

    "Secret Invasion," which premiered Wednesday on Disney+, centers on Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), who came into being in the comics as a World War II Army sergeant and, hitching

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