Secret Invasion Director Shares Surprising Reaction to Bad Reviews
Written by Luck Wilson on July 28, 2023
Following the conclusion of Secret Invasion on Disney+, the MCU director shared his own thoughts about the series’ poor reviews.
From the outset, Secret Invasion had the makings of a homerun thanks to its fascinating premise and all-star cast.
Unfortunately, the six-episode season which centered on Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and helmed by director Ali Selim left audiences both befuddled and disappointed, a fact well-illustrated by the finale’s record-low Rotten Tomatoes score.
Marvel Director Reacts to Secret Invasion Reviews
When asked by Variety about Secret Invasion‘s rather lackluster reception, director Ali Selim confessed, “Oh, I don’t read reviews:”
“Oh, I don’t read reviews. With all due respect. For me, I view all the storytelling work I do as a dialogue with an audience. When the show is finished and put up on the screen, that’s my half of the dialogue. And the audience then starts their half of the response to it. I think that’s valuable, but I don’t know. I don’t know how to answer the question.”
Best known for his work on Criminal Minds and The Looming Tower, Selim explained why he doesn’t “feel bad about mixed reviews,” in addition to his take on the Marvel fan base’s “expectations:”
“I don’t feel bad about mixed reviews. If you had unanimously good reviews, every movie would gross $10 billion, trillion dollars, right? [Projects] resonate with different people at different times for different reasons, and Marvel has a very devoted — even rabid — fan base who have expectations and when their expectations aren’t fulfilled, they move in the other direction; they give it a thumbs down.”
In addition to not reading reviews or feeling bad about them, perhaps the most surprising comment from the Secret Invasion director was his admitting that “I feel great about the response” to the series:
“I don’t know — is it our job to fulfill their expectations? Or to tell the story that we’re telling? So, it’s a tricky thing. I would love it if everybody loved it, but I also don’t have that expectation myself, so I feel great about the response to it.”
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