Invincible Just Got Its Best, Most Moving... and Most Destructive Episode Yet

Spoilers follow for Invincible Season 4, Episode 7, “Don’t Do Anything Rash,” which is available on Prime Video now. The tragedy of Thragg takes center stage in Invincible’s latest episode, its strongest one to date. The last time the show balanced its key elements so harmoniously — its gore, its scale, its emotional stakes — was arguably the Season 1 finale, a defining entry that took the series from good to great. “Don’t Do Anything Rash” launches the show into the stratosphere of stellar contemporary television. And while it’s an outlier in this regard, it’s also entirely worth the drudgery of any and all prior middling entries, tackling the story from an unexpected point-of-view that unveils powerful emotional dimensions. The Viltrumite War kicked off in earnest last week, with a commendable episode whose climax promised further escalations in the form of the Coalition taking the fight to the retreating villains. However, before we resume the fireworks, the show takes us back several centuries to the rule of Emperor Argall, and the ascension of his right-hand regent — the young, ambitious Thragg — to the Viltrumite throne. Thaedus, still a Viltrum envoy, reads the tea leaves of