Ms. Marvel could not have captured the eye of a public ravenous for brand spanking new TV, like WandaVision, or a public ravenous for extra Tom Hiddleston, like Loki. However it’s nonetheless quietly top-of-the-line Marvel Cinematic Universe TV reveals produced for Disney Plus.

When you’re making an attempt to determine how a lot “homework” it is advisable do earlier than The Marvels (that includes Ms. Marvel’s big-screen debut) hits theaters subsequent week, take it from us: This pleasant little six-episode present must be on the high of your listing.

Regardless of Ms. Marvel’s restricted area to work with, its six episodes pack in superhero motion, teen drama, generational trauma, and the diasporic immigrant expertise, with out feeling prefer it’s juggling an excessive amount of. The present’s titular hero is Kamala Khan, a superfan of the spacefaring hero Captain Marvel, who discovers her personal unimaginable powers on a fateful journey to “AvengerCon” and goes on a search to search out their supply, and her personal approach of being the hero of her Jersey Metropolis group.

The sequence has a definite visible type and narrative tone impressed by shiny comedian guide colours, John Hughes films, and the pop-in graphics of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — however all that vitality is second to the attraction of its star, Iman Vellani. Of the gaggle of younger actors recruited to play the MCU’s second era of superheroes, Vellani stands aside, displaying a simple earnestness and performative vary that belies her newcomer standing. (And her co-written Ms. Marvel comedian miniseries is fairly nice, too!)

The guts of Ms. Marvel is with Kamala and her family members: the eternally compelling grounded drama of a household making an attempt to remain related as its children develop an increasing number of unbiased of their dad and mom and familial previous. The deliberate steadiness of Kamala’s on a regular basis life together with her superheroing doesn’t simply set Ms. Marvel other than practically the entire remainder of the MCU fare, it additionally makes it one of the vital loving and direct diversifications of a particular (and beloved) Marvel comedian within the MCU’s historical past.

Fortunately, it looks like Kamala’s dad and mom and brother get no less than a little display time in The Marvels, when Kamala’s superpower-endowed bangle turns into cosmically “entangled” with Captain Marvel and Photon, in some sort of three-way Freaky Friday-ish area journey. There’s nonetheless time to kill between now and when The Marvels hits theaters on Nov. 10 — let it’s your excuse to observe (or rewatch) top-of-the-line new additions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in years.

Ms. Marvel is streaming on Disney Plus.