Invincible Season 4 Premiere Spoiler Review: Episodes 1-3 - IGN

Spoilers follow for the first three episodes of Prime Video’s Invincible Season 4, which debuts on March 18. After last season’s bloody conclusion, Invincible returns with a trio of episodes that chart a brand-new emotional course. The much-needed reset finds Invincible/Mark Grayson amidst an extended moral crisis, while practically every other character is faced with existential threats, in a three-part premiere that – despite the show’s continuing flaws – not only coheres thematically, but delivers a significant emotional impact. The first and third of these new episodes (“Making the World a Better Place” and “I Gotta Get Some Air”) are an ostensible two-parter dealing with the ripple effects of Conquest’s invasion and a gravely injured Mark beating him to death with a series of headbutts…or so he thought. As revealed at the end of Season 3, ever-shifty defense head Cecil is keeping Conquest on ice at the GDA among other secretive projects involving android tinkerer DA Sinclair. When we rejoin Mark and our ensemble, however, they’re none the wiser. Some time has passed. Mark’s half-brother Oliver is a teenager now, making it feel as though years have gone by – though given his ac