Marvel’s Iron Fist’s Unabashed Display of Privilege
‘Iron Fist’ is a boring, mediocre series wrapped in privilege
Note: Full spoilers follow! You’ve been warned.
The Marvel Netflix shows have become known as a transcendent genre of superhero television, giving us mature, nuanced, and well-layered stories. In addition to the Marvel Netflix shows, both of the Marvel shows currently on network television, ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’ and ‘Legion’, are equally as fantastic, and one could argue more fantastic than the Marvel Netflix ones. With such a celebrated precedent, ‘Iron Fist’s mediocrity feels like an iron fist to the face.
Danny Rand is a 25 year old, hetero, white, petulant man-child who returns home to New York City in the hope of freedom, if that’s what you would call abandoning your duties. Caught between two worlds and being terrible at both, Danny cannot seem to escape his privilege.
On the Danny Rand side, Danny comes home to discover that his parent’s company “Rand Enterprises” is no longer in control of their friend and partner Harold Meachum. Instead the company is being led by Harold’s children and Danny’s childhood friends (who he insists on calling family), Joy and Ward Meachum. Super long story short, after being dismissed and rejected for being who he actually is…
