The ‘Moon Knight’ Finale Demands A Season 2

Moon Knight has finished its six episode, season 1 run here, and even if it’s supposed to be a one-off miniseries, it sure does not present that way in the finale. Yes, Moon Knight very much seems like it wants and needs a season 2, even if it would only be the second live action Marvel series so far to get one.

How does it end? We have to get into spoiler territory for that, so turn away if you haven’t watched today’s episode yet.

Thankfully, Moon Knight did not burden us with killing off Steven permanently, as Marc gives up eternal bliss to go be with him in the sands of the Duat. This apparently moves Osiris enough to save both their souls, and combined with Layla freeing Khonshu, the two return to life. Things have…changed. The personalities now talk to each other and seamlessly transition in and out of one another rather than brawling for control over the body. And Steven is…somehow really good at fighting now as Mr. Knight. Sure, why not.

The gods are desperate after a freed Ammit wipes out all the other avatars, so Layla agrees to be Taweret’s “temporary” avatar which gives her a costume and cool golden wings that she can use both to fly and as weapons, kind of similar to Falcon. If she has a cool name like “Moon Knight” we haven’t heard it yet. “Hippo Knight” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

Layla is a wholly original, non-comics character created specifically for this Moon Knight series, presumably to ensure that a series about Egyptian gods actually had an Egyptian character. I was ecstatic to see her get her own powers and become a superhero in her own right, and it would be a shame if she was not allowed to keep using those wings in a second season, which I’ll consider point one of the argument here.

Obviously the biggest cliffhanger development is the final reveal of the third personality that the show has teased this entire time, a hyper violent entity that neither Steven nor Marc know.

That would indeed be Jake Lockley from the comics, where he’s an American cab driver, but in Moon Knight, he’s shown abducting and killing Harrow for Khonshu while speaking Spanish. He may still be American, but I do wonder if the Spanish is Oscar Isaac getting to have a third personality for the show that actually represents his true ethnicity (his full name is Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada, in case you didn’t know).

Again, it would be another weird turn to finally introduce Jake Lockley as a compounding factor and not bring him back for more in a second season.

Unlike other Marvel series, Moon Knight does not seem destined for its own blockbuster movie, nor does the character quite ready to hop into some other part of the universe as a guest star, as quite literally nothing in the show connects in a meaningful way with any other MCU property. Which is fine! Everything doesn’t have to have crossovers and cameos! But what that means, and how the show ends, is that Disney should very much greenlight a second season of Moon Knight in order to continue this story and continue building out this corner of the universe.

Hopefully we’ll hear more about plans soon, but Disney is very confusing with stuff like this. Sometimes the path forward is obvious. Wandavision transitioned into Multiverse of Madness. Falcon and the Winter Soldier is turning into Captain America 4. But while Loki got a season 2, a show like Hawkeye remains up in the air, even though that series seemed like it need another full batch of episodes starring Kate Bishop and Yelena Belova. And yet, so far, crickets.

We’ll see what happens to Moon Knight, but it’s been a weird, good run so far.

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