‘Invincible’ Season 4 Review: The End Is Nigh

After a full year without Earth’s bloodiest heroes, Invincible is back for its fourth season and 5 years into adapting Robert Kirkman’s legendary comic series, you can see we are coming to the culmination of the Viltrumite storyline. While the story is as strong as ever, you can’t help but think that it might be moving a little too slowly and a little too formulaically.

Invincible tells the story of Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), a young man who learns of and soon grapples with his heritage as a member of the Viltrumite race, a planet of nearly invincible superhumans who use their powers to dominate the universe. This season sees him prepare to face a final battle against the Viltrumites, led by Thragg (Lee Pace), who features in the first six episodes of the series painfully little despite being touted so heavily in the marketing.

While the world recovers from the global catastrophe of last season, a changed Mark struggles with guilt as he fights to protect his home and the people he loves, setting him on a collision course with a powerful new threat that could alter the fate of humanity forever.

Mark is really moody this season, way more so than usual, as he grapples with the aftermath of last season’s multiversal attack by other Invincibles who aligned themselves with the Viltrumites. It’s a sensible plot but definitely not the most engaging so when you can finally see him, the Guardians of the Globe, Atom Eve, and Oliver fight threats, that is when the show is at its best. I particularly loved an explosive battle in episode four, where the stakes are at their highest, but the smaller fights on Earth between series mainstays are also great.

An underrated part of the season is definitely the humour, with the buddy-cop nature between Allen the Alien (Rogen) and Omni-Man (Simmons) really being hilarious at times. I love how their dynamic has grown over the past two seasons and am excited to see where it will be taken next.

I think the decision to focus less on side characters such as Walton Goggin’s Cecil or even members of the Empire themselves was ultimately detrimental, as some of the best parts of the season focus on the Viltrumites’ past, and their imminent downfall. Invincible still retains its status as one of the best comic-book shows on TV at the moment, but doesn’t reach the highs of the first season or even parts of the last.

Invincible stars Steven Yeun, JK Simmons, Seth Rogen, Sandra Oh, Christian Convery, Gillian Jacobs, Walton Goggins, Jonathan Banks, Matthew Rhys, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace, Clancy Brown, Bruce Campbell, Danai Gurira, Djimon Honsou, and Tatiana Maslany.

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