Invincible (TV Series) I'm Not Going Anywhere (2024) User Reviews

Oh yeah, it's all coming together

[kalelwhistler · 10/10 · 28 March 2024]

Anissa's first appearance and Mark and Amber's breakup marks a whole new chapter. This is where Mark's story truly begins, next episode will be a milestone in Mark's journey. Next episode we will see what sets him apart from most of the other superheroes from DC and Marvel. Knowing what's about to happen, next episode is gonna be crazy and you guys aren't ready for it, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun knowing.

These past 2 episodes were all about character development, left and right. Mark, Amber, Rex, Rick, Donald....and this character development will play a huge role in the events to come.

Best superhero show since daredevil

[superantpal · 10/10 · 28 March 2024]

Im contastly amazed by every episode....the way they give depth to every character and to the relationships is just amazing. If the show keeps up this kind of quality i sincerely think that its gonna be the best among the best superhero shows. At first i didnt think the amber storyline was necessary but now i see it why they impelmented it. It totally makes sense, it shows us that Mark can never have a normal life that he wants so bad, he cant have a normal relationship and the amber storyline shows how heartbreaking it is. You could explore this kind of theme with just a school attendance issue but that wouldnt hit hard as a human relationship. I understand that people dont like Amber as a character but atleast her character serves a purpose in the story.

Last 10 Minutes were Great!

[Homebredshark50 · 8/10 · 28 March 2024]

Invincible Season 2 is very different to Season 1. Alot of people have loved the new change of direction whilst others not soo much. The best episodes this season have featured a look at the Viltrimite empire and we finally get another taste of these exciting new villains.

This episode mostly consisted on plot points involving Amber, William, and Donald. Whilst I thought the Donald and William story got quite intriguing, Amber's story has been quite drawn out at this point. Despite this, the final 10 minutes were superb. Great stakes, action, and just goes to show why we root for Mark. Anissa is a nice addition to our understanding of Viltrimites. Very intimidating to know she is faster and probably stronger than Nolan. Loved the post credit scene too at the end also. Allen is such a good laugh and I'm very happy with him staying alive. Hoping for a grand finale next week!

Things are heating up

[choiproductionsyt · 9/10 · 28 March 2024]

Again, I'll keep this review spoiler free. But let's just say that everything is finally starting to come together and getting us ready for the big finale. To be completely honest, there's so many moving parts that I have no clue on how we are going to get a satisfying finale, but I believe that this talented crew can make it work. Again, the first half is good and entertaining, but it's the second half that really shines. I want the new episode to come out right now and I can't be more excited. Oh, also, that bit at the beginning with the animation jokes are REALLY funny. That got a good laugh outta me.

Pretty Good

[MamadNobari97 · 8/10 · 28 March 2024]

Most of the episode is still spent on Mark and Amber's relationship status just like the last episode, but I like the development here better even though it's weird to me they still didn't decide to give it a conclusion. I just hope they get over with it fast in the finale and not take up 60% of the runtime giving us another soap opera about these two teenagers.

Unlike a couple of other people here who apparently still hate Amber, I got over the Amber hate when season 2 started and they made her more reasonable and likable. And this episode is like the least you can hate her for anything she does or says. I understand not liking the way the writers are dragging this breakup thing, I don't like it either, but I just don't get how you can still hate her?

The only thing I didn't like about it was them not breaking up here. Like we get it, it was nice to include Amber in this situation too to make it more impactful. I like what they did, or they're still doing, with how Mark and Amber will eventually grow apart despite not wanting to. But not ending it here and dragging it into the finale is weird to me. I guess they want to give it a conclusion in the finale so we'd have a pretty solid finale with a lot of conclusions and new beginnings, so whatever. I just hope they don't drag it into the next season too.

Another thing that has been a disappointment to me this season is Angstrom. We only had half an episode worth of character development from him and he didn't show up for like 4 episodes and then occasionally showed up as the final scene of the episode twist or in the post-credit scenes. They made him out to be more important than he has been in this season. If they conclude his story in the finale I would be super pissed and disappointed, to be honest, but I doubt they'd do that.

One thing this season feels lacking is direction I think. Because in season 1, you knew what the season was leading toward and the overall story arc of the season was somewhat obvious. In season 2, I'm not sure what the big picture still is after 7 episodes. Mark and Amber's relationship status feels more like this season's overall storyline than anything else honestly. We haven't seen much from Angstrom after the first episode, nor have we seen much from Allen the Alien or Omni-Man that much either. So for me at least, this whole season kinda feels like half a season to me than an actual season. Not saying not knowing what's gonna happen and the unpredictability is bad or anything, I'm saying I'm not sure what the goal is here exactly.

Aside from all the ranting about things I didn't care for in this episode or the season, this episode is actually pretty great. Wouldn't've given it an 8 if it wasn't. The stuff with Donald is pretty good in my opinion, and I like how they make even the side characters or the minor characters you thought were unimportant in season 1 feel important and they have their own character arcs.

The last 15 minutes is pretty great too and the show still has the power to surprise you and make some pretty intense scenes where you don't know what's gonna happen next. Though I kinda expected the fight scenes to be more brutal than they were, they were still good. The episode is pretty good but I feel like the first season's 7th episode was way more intense and edge-of-your-seat. Not sure if it's fair to compare each and every episode and every little detail to the previous season, and I definitely don't want them to redo and repeat everything they did with that season, but this episode wasn't as impactful as the last season's.

Also, where the hell is Damien Darkblood? I thought he would be a way bigger character than he was. He was one of the coolest characters in this show and I'm not sure if they will even bring him back, like at all. It's a shame because I thought he was gonna be the one who first found out about Omni-Man (I don't remember if he actually did), and I think they did my boy Demon Detective dirty.

Overall, this episode is pretty good and has the usual intense last 10 minutes and endings you've come to expect from this show, but it still has some disappointing elements to it and we'll have to wait and see if they stick the landing like the last time or not.

Focus on the story

[trkmrc · 10/10 · 28 March 2024]

First of all this was an amazing episode, in my opinion the second best in this season (i hope it will be third after the finale) and one of the best overall in the series.

Anissa's introduce was as good as in the comics even if it was a bit different, then the fight was very enjoyable for me.

The end when Angstrom Levy reunites with Mark was a very good preparation for the next episode and make the people excited for what comes.

The last thing is Amber and Mark relationship. A lot of people hate Amber because of the first season (i didn't like her that much either), but in this season she was more likeable and she got a major role as Mark's girlfriend but some of the reviewers give the episodes bad rating because they still don't like her even if the episode was good overall and in my opinion that's a little bit unfair because the rating won't reflect that the episode was very good or just okay.

I won't give this episode bad ratings only beacause there was a lot of Amber.

(If there are mistakes then sorry i don't speak english too well, i just wanted to write my opinion)

Emotional!!😢

[johnhill-69413 · 9/10 · 29 March 2024]

One of the most emotional episodes I've seen so far of "Invincible but "MAN" what a beautiful and tearful song!!😭💔 Above all great writing, I don't know, just everything about the episode makes it very spectacle and we're one episode left for season two! I really wish they could release these last four episodes last year. But it was worth the wait. This and episode 4 might be one of the best episodes that I've seen so far this season. Really hope season 3 gets much more emotional than all the other seasons. Other than that I would give us episode a 9.3 out of 10. Hoping to see a true happy ending for Mark and Eve and their future!

When will you be home?

[Trey_Trebuchet · 9/10 · 30 March 2024]

Great episode.

Really digging this season. Long time fan of the comics and they're so far done the comic run justice and even improved on much of it. I've so far liked all of the changes. As for Amber... she was one of the least interesting parts of the comics, and the show as well, but here it at least makes some sense why she's been in so much of the season so far. Anissa's intro is simply horrifying. I'm not at all ready to see her evil face again... But it was also a great way of giving us full context for the Viltrumite Empire.

I really like what they've done with Donald as well. They're expanded on his character in the best way possible. I really liked his scene on the rooftop as well. It was anxiety-inducing and so, so emotional.

And Rex's intro was a ton of fun. Again, what a great character.

But it's really Mark who gets the best arc here. I so far love what they've done with him, and this is arguably one of his best episodes in the show. The next episode will likely top that. I'm scared!

Everything is tying together very snugly in my opinion. I cannot wait for the finale, but I'm also sad because I know I'll have to wait while for Season 3.

This is where the fun begins...

[mandryszko-74423 · 10/10 · 28 March 2024]

This was a great episode, started off quite light, and then later transitioned to a more tense feel with Anissa finally being shown. The worst part about this was that amber was annoying as hell. Apart from this I think it was a great episode, it also left us off with a cliffhanger, by Allen being taken by the viltrumites and Mark having problems with Angstrom Levy. Over all it was good to see more of the viltrumites overlooking the situation with Mark and earth,as as new chsracters being presented to us, like Anissa(but we all know what will happen to Mark RIP). Next episode will definitely include the fight with Angstrom and maybe Allen in the viltrumite prison.

A better mixture of character development and high stakes paradigm shifts

[thegreendrinker · 8/10 · 28 March 2024]

This season has struggled to balance quieter character moments with more high octane disruptions to the status quo, but this episode achieved a better balance. In terms of the more down to earth moments, there was Donald soothing his own PTSD by helping someone else with theirs, Rex foolishly taking on a monster but good-naturedly offering Mark time off, Immortal acknowledging his limitations, Debbie reaffirming her love for her kids even if the cost of them existing was the trauma of being with Nolan, and, of course, the dissolution of Mark and Amber's relationship. This is all very much ALOT and I will still accuse it of being too much, but each scene felt like it was given time to breathe and everything being explored felt interesting. The density of storylines actually helped to make the message feel more potent since we are able to see that all humans struggle the same.

Everyone was faced with incredibly uncomfortable feelings or PTSD and were not able to reach catharsis by the end of the episode. Full healing is something that perhaps is not possible, despite how much we yearn for it and need it. Like how Mark and Amber just hold each other and sob at the end of the episode, there is sometimes nothing that can be said or done to alleviate the pain. There can only be us doing the best that we can with each moment.

Mark and Amber are only able to enjoy their date for a short time before something inevitably ruins it. Anissa, through sheer superior strength, forces Mark to acknowledge what he hasn't wanted to the entire season- he can't have a normal life AND be a superhero. Even worse, the first was never an option. Mark can't go to school. He can't have a civilian girlfriend. He can't live the life he wants to live. Anissa's every move in the fight between her and Mark is calculated to have maximum impact. Nothing is wasted in how she fights. Every single attack utterly decimates Mark. She is his destiny forcing him to choose the only option that he has- be a superhero who sacrifices his mundane happiness for the sake of the world. It's incredibly tragic.

I have felt iffy about some aspects of this season, but I overall think that it is going in the right direction and has the right things on its mind. Anissa punctures the status quo even further by mentioning that humans are destroying the planet through capitalistic greed. Invincible, if it wants to, could be about more than just superheroes keeping monsters and alien invaders at bay. It could become a story about how superheroes could prevent the Earth from going down a terrible path. Something that obviously feels urgent in real life. If only they were real.

Appreciating the Heights of Season 1

[anonymous_Tigraway · 8/10 · 29 March 2024]

As a non-comic book reader, I wonder if the magic of the first season of Invincible can ever be replicated. It was a most powerful exploration of the modern family dynamic - Debbie, Nolan and Mark - and the big secret that Nolan was hiding from the family. The slow lead-up towards the reveal made the show special and the last two episodes among the most iconic in TV culture of the recent past.

That's where my gripe with this episode starts - despite the emotional investment in the Amber/Mark relationship (over the last two episodes and this season overall), I was not nearly as invested as I was for the relationship Mark had with Nolan (or Debbie for that matter). In fact, the way Amber reconciled with Mark after his harrowing and unbelievably traumatizing fight with his father in the first season was so off putting that I never shipped Mark & Amber. (Apparently, this was unintentional in the writers' vision for her character - she was not conceived to be as tone-deaf as fans saw her to be on that scene.)

Granted, season 2 gives her character more time - we get to know abt how she views her relationship to Invincible and how she truly cares about him. She is a more likable and three-dimensional - we get bits and pieces of her worldly struggles as a college student trying to balance things as Mark is doing, and failing at it similarly. The relationship is well explored in the previous episode and I was impressed.

However, far too much screen time is dedicated to the inevitable Mark-Amber breakup this episode and the writing felt uncharacteristically weak. Amber's monologue near the end was where that came to the fore and combined with some puzzling animation choices, it might be the weakest scene of the season for me. (Zooming in on Amber's mouth - perhaps in a call back to the self-effacing jokes on animation being hard near the beginning of the episode - was tonally inappropriate for a scene that should evoke the sadness of a breakup.)

Moving on, the best part of the episode was imposing and terrifying introduction to the Viltrumite Annisa. The scene where she had her hand on the neck of Amber, as Mark & Amber were blissfully ready to have a meal, is where the slow pace of the episode pays off. The subsequent fight scenes between Invincible & Annisa and Allen & Annisa were wonderfully choreographed/animated to show the awesome power of a single Viltumite and our resurrected Unopan who can now stand toe-to-toe with one.

The episode ends with the villain established in episode 1 of season 2, Angstrom Levy, holding Debbie and Oliver hostage. It is difficult to feel the emotional stakes of the coming fight between Levy and Invincible given how little we have seen of Levy, but I want to be optimistic. I can't imagine it nearing the heights of the Nolan Vs Mark showdown for season 1 - but can anything in subsequent seasons come close to that? I highly doubt it. I still hope to enjoy future seasons of Invincible as a ground breaking show in animation and comic book storytelling even if I am no longer as moved as I was during season 1.

Rating this an 8 out of 10 for the better parts.

Would have been a higher rating if there wasn't so much Amber

[cainacastora · 7/10 · 1 April 2024]

Tl;dr: Episode was really good, but too bloated with Amber drama

You know, I have no trouble with showing how tough a superhero / normal person relationship can be, but for that I really would need to care in the first place.

Maybe I still carry much animosity for Amber from season 1 ( she got better in season 2), but seriously, Mark acted the whole time like she is the massiah or something. Where is all this "Amber support" he talks about the whole time? All I see is her doing less than Eve on the schoolbuilding after the first Flaxan invasion / Mark's first fight, and the "support" consisting of not getting mad at him anymore, even though she knew the whole time he was invincible.

William I like though, his Arc with Rick is understandable and I like how they showed more of Donald and that he isn't just a random goon, but tries to make the world a little bit better, even as a "normal" person.

TBH I already more or less forgot the megamind guy, I just hope he is there to train Mark with the goal of freeing all those other realities, if he is just there to pick a fight with an apparently rare good invincible, it would be strange.

Amber is so annoying

[jaxonvagg-74929 · 8/10 · 28 March 2024]

This episode was peak however the large amber and William filler content was quite agravating and that reference to the extended production time at the start just makes me hate the developers even more. If episode 8 isn't a 10/10 I'm going to end it all.

The trailer teased the invincible war and sequids and all we managed to get after 3 episodes is Rex splode cooking the lizard league. Mark has to make earth ready for viltrimite takeover in less than a month and he's worried about his girlfriend? Allen offered him to come with him last episode and instead of a good episode I got 30 mins of amber.

Pros and Cons of this episode

[mahdimzakzakk · 8/10 · 31 March 2024]

Cons: -Too much Amber filler, we don't like amber, we don't care about her and her issues, we don't care that she's a human and La La La La. No, we came here for invincible. I don't watch Superman for Louis lane, I don't watch Spiderman for Mary Jane. Stop with Amber, I find myself fast forwarding sometimes just because I don't want to sit and endure her monologue, because that's what it is, it's monologue, she's got so much too say, I can barely tell she's having a conversation with Mark. I didn't click this episode for a 5 minute amber monologue.

-At the start of the episode, we get a little insight at comic con on how the producers cut corners, PLEASE trust me on this, skip that 3 minutes because I promise you, it will ruin how you see the show. I had to force myself and dumb down my focusing skills, just to ignore the corners that were cut. And trust me, there are plenty.

-FILLER, we keep wasting our time in filler, there are so many plot points happening, I'm afraid they're not going to be able to fit it all into the finale. And then we'll be left waiting another 2 years.

Pros:

-The Viltrumite fight scene. Do I really need to say much? The fight scenes are always incredible, the producers really do know how to make superhero fights look terrifying in comparison to DC/Marvel, these superhero fights really make me thankful that I'm not a superhero, really makes Mark look Human. This is where I find myself quoting Green Goblin "the one thing they love more than a hero, is to see a hero fail". Can't be more true in this case, although we want the best for mark, I can't help but love seeing his human side, seeing him beaten to a bloody pulp, absolutely hopeless, and then pick himself back up again and enduring whatever is thrown at him. Really poetic in my opinion.

-THE POST CREDIT SCENE. I promise you guys, without the post credit scene, the episode is a solid 7/10. But just this credit scene, deserves a point. Even though, the producers have been absolutely playing around with us, They got me waiting and absolutely hyped up again ! And I'm ready for more.

*Summary*

Bad: -Amber bad -Producers make unnecessary references.

-Filler Bad.

Good: -Fight scene at the end, Very Good -Post Credit Scene, Saves the Episode.