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 ○ Optional

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

17 titles lead into Echo (Season 1) — 41 hours in total, 12 of them essential.

Captain America: The First Avenger Essential 2h 4m ★ 7.0
Thor Essential 1h 55m ★ 6.8
The Avengers Essential 2h 23m ★ 8.1
Iron Man 3 2h 10m ★ 6.9
Thor: The Dark World 1h 52m ★ 6.5
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Essential 2h 16m ★ 7.7
Guardians of the Galaxy Essential 2h 1m ★ 7.9
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2h 16m ★ 7.6
Avengers: Age of Ultron Essential 2h 21m ★ 7.3
Captain America: Civil War Essential 2h 27m ★ 7.4
Black Panther Essential 2h 14m ★ 7.4
Spider-Man: Homecoming 2h 13m ★ 7.3
Doctor Strange Essential 1h 55m ★ 7.4
Thor: Ragnarok Essential 2h 10m ★ 7.6
Avengers: Infinity War Essential 2h 29m ★ 8.2
Avengers: Endgame Essential 3h 2m ★ 8.2
Hawkeye (Season 1) 5h ★ 7.8

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Where It Fits in the MCU

Echo (Season 1) sits at position 136 of 165 in the MCU's story-chronological order, placing it within the Phase 4 — Multiverse Opens (2024–2025) era. It is rated Optional — can be skipped without losing the main thread. 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.