Spoiler Warning: Moon Knight Season One

Marvel’s surrealist television sensation Moon Knight ended on an ambiguous, fierce note, leaving fans to speculate on what will happen next and what even happened in the first place. The buzz surrounding a potential season 2 is murky. The parties involved insist that there are no official plans for a season two and that Moon Knight was always going to be a standalone, limited series until further notice. It is difficult to believe that Marvel has no intention of continuing the acclaimed, engaging series after the multiple provocative cliffhangers it ended. The show has also quickly burrowed into and shaped popular culture.

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The only case that can be argued is that audiences need to see more Moon Knight! It left too many questions unanswered, too many theories unexplored, and just too much left out in the open. Here is everything we need to see from a Moon Knight season 2, from character arcs to story developments and things much more complicated. That’s the trouble with making something so awesome these days. It’s tough to separate the project from the adoring fans who simply must have more!

Moon Knight Season 2: Character Arcs & Developments

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It’s as though they are literally the same person. Once Steven (Oscar Isaac) was allowed access to Mark, and Mark learned how to open up to Steven and include him in the larger intrigue and context of their existence, this duo became the greatest, though most complicated, bromance in recent TV. It would also be exciting to see more of Arthur Harrow, or Dr. Harrow. However, it appears his avatar/cult leader persona has been killed off by Mark and Steven’s secret, brutal third identity, Jason Lockley.

Speaking of, where did Jason Lockley come from, and why is he here? Perhaps Mark found himself in one too many situations that required a persona that could do things Mark just couldn’t bring himself to. So he created the formidable, even villainous personality of Jason Lockley, who is altogether more violent, ferocious and merciless than Mark or Steven could ever dream. There’s a story there, and we need to know what it is.

However, what we need more than anything is the fantastic duo of Scarlett Scarab and the adorable goddess Taweret! Together, these two made an incredible superhero, representing the Arab woman and role model and refreshing feminine strength. May Calamawy has quickly stolen hearts and minds with her performance. While we hope to see her take on equally or even more significant roles soon, we really hope to see more adventures of her adventures as Scarlett Scarab and the goddess Taweret in the near future. Especially since the season one finale of Moon Knight didn’t show us where she ended up after the battle against Arthur Harrow.

The Nature of Reality in Moon Knight

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The number one thing that we want to see Moon Knight do is make good on a hilarious, meta idea that director Mohamed Diab toyed with and brought to producers, which was to write the ending so that the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe actually just takes place in Mark Specter’s head. Eventually, the show settled for a more conventional, restorative end, where the reality of the psychiatrist’s office, and Ethan Hawke’s identity as a kindly and caring doctor trying to help Mark, are called into question, solidifying an ambiguous finale. We can all rest assured that Moon Knight’s fantastical, heroic world exists safely and is inarguably real, somewhere and somehow.

While Marvel may need the time to be just right to write Mark Specter as the character who conceived of and houses the MCU, Marvel needs to write this at some point. It is the only franchise so expansive, creative, and meta that it can effectively write itself out of existence. By virtue of this individuality alone, it has an obligation to. No other creative entity is in a position to call out the suspension of disbelief required by all audience members as participants in film, television, gaming, and VR narratives to live an experience that we know is not, cannot be, will never be truly and authentically real in the way that we understand reality.

Moon Knight has done what no other show can do by fully exploiting the audiences’ now second nature suspension of disbelief and the metaphorical nature of reality itself. If Marvel were actually to write its entire repertoire into one character’s head, removing all the stories we’ve seen one more step away from our own reality, that is the most boss move any creative team can make. Again, Marvel must make it simply because they are the only creative entity that can.

We hope to see an announcement for Moon Knight season 2 soon, and we can’t wait to see what creative choices the team behind it land on!