Marvel Studios trades superhero excess for quiet grit in its decidedly dark new miniseries, Echo, out now on Disney+ and Hulu .

Picking up where 2021s Hawkeye ended, Echo follows Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez, an Indigenous, deaf amputee who was once the leader of the brutal Tracksuit Mafia.

The five-part series unfolds as Maya retreats home to Oklahomas Choctaw Nation after shooting her surrogate uncle and New York crime boss, Wilson Kingpin Fisk (played by an imposing Vincent DOnofrio ).

Back home, Coxs character must contend with her past trauma and face fraught relationships with her grandma and cousin, Chula (Tantoo Cardinal) and Bonnie (Devery Jacobs), respectively.

Echo is an edgy but imperfect outing for Marvel, which has been trying to find footing in its post-Avengers era. Last year, the studio had multiple box-office blunders; the November release of The Marvels ended up as its lowest-grossing movie of all time.

As Marvels first TV-MA release, Echo delivers the right dose of dark, violent action, which is a welcome break from the glossy world of the MCU films. Still, the bloody fight scenes are inconsistent when it comes to choreography, and some special effects also fall flat.