Series Phase 4 — Multiverse Opens (2024–2025)

Echo (Season 1)

Name: Echo (Season 1)
Released: 2024-01-09
Duration: 225 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Alaqua Cox, Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Devery Jacobs, Cody Lightning

"No bad deed goes unpunished."

Released January 9, 2024 3h 45m ★ 6.0TMDB ★ Essential to the MCU

Pursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire, Maya's journey brings her home and she must confront her own family and legacy.

Watch note

Maya Lopez standalone. Kingpin reveals his political ambitions — Mayor of New York — which Born Again S1 and S2 directly continue.

Why It Matters in the MCU

Maya Lopez's solo series follows the Deaf Native American character from her Hawkeye introduction into her own street-level story in Oklahoma, and the series' willingness to foreground her cultural identity and disability as narrative strengths rather than simply as representation points is its most distinctive quality. The limited series format strips the superhero elements to their essentials, producing the MCU's most grounded live-action television since the Netflix era. Its release as a full-season Netflix-style drop rather than weekly episodes represented a new distribution experiment for the franchise.

Watch These First

33 titles lead into Echo (Season 1) — 138 hours in total. 30 of the 33 are essential.

Captain America: The First Avenger Essential 2h 4m ★ 7.0
Captain Marvel Essential 2h 4m ★ 6.8
Iron Man Essential 2h 6m ★ 7.7
Iron Man 2 Essential 2h 4m ★ 6.9
The Incredible Hulk Essential 1h 52m ★ 6.3
Iron Man 2 (Post-Credit Scene) Essential 0h 2m
Thor Essential 1h 55m ★ 6.8 +2 before this
Captain America: The First Avenger (Credits) Essential 0h 2m
Thor (Post-Credit Scene) Essential 0h 2m
The Avengers Essential 2h 23m ★ 8.1 +2 before this
Iron Man 3 Essential 2h 10m ★ 6.9
Thor: The Dark World Essential 1h 52m ★ 6.5
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Essential 2h 16m ★ 7.7 +3 before this
Guardians of the Galaxy Essential 2h 1m ★ 7.9
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Essential 2h 16m ★ 7.6
Daredevil (Season 1) Essential 11h ★ 8.2
Jessica Jones (Season 1) Essential 11h ★ 7.5
Avengers: Age of Ultron Essential 2h 21m ★ 7.3
Daredevil (Season 2) Essential 11h ★ 8.2
Captain America: Civil War Essential 2h 27m ★ 7.5 +1 before this
Luke Cage (Season 1) Essential 11h ★ 6.9
Iron Fist (Season 1) Essential 11h ★ 6.5
The Defenders (Season 1) Essential 8h ★ 7.0
Black Widow Essential 2h 14m ★ 7.2
Eyes of Wakanda (Season 1) Essential 2h ★ 6.2
Black Panther Essential 2h 14m ★ 7.4
Spider-Man: Homecoming Essential 2h 13m ★ 7.3
Doctor Strange Essential 1h 55m ★ 7.4
Daredevil (Season 3) Essential 11h ★ 8.2 +1 before this
Thor: Ragnarok Essential 2h 10m ★ 7.6 +2 before this
Avengers: Infinity War Essential 2h 29m ★ 8.2 +4 before this
Captain Marvel (Post-Credits Scene) Essential 0h 2m
Avengers: Endgame Essential 3h 2m ★ 8.2 +9 before this
Peter's To-Do List 0h 4m ★ 7.0
Spider-Man: Far From Home 2h 9m ★ 7.4 +1 before this
Black Widow (Post-Credit Scene) Essential 0h 3m
Hawkeye (Season 1) Essential 5h ★ 7.8 +1 before this
Spider-Man: No Way Home 2h 28m ★ 7.9 +9 before this
She-Hulk (Season 1) 6h ★ 6.1 +7 before this

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Where It Fits in the MCU

Echo (Season 1) sits at position 129 of 158 in the MCU's story-chronological order, placing it within the Phase 4 — Multiverse Opens (2024–2025) era. It is rated Essential — later MCU titles build on it. Watching in story-chronological order provides the most coherent character development experience — individual arcs build naturally toward the franchise's major crossover events, with each film's post-credits scenes carrying forward into what follows.