Invincible season 4 review

In a weird way, this pragmatic line of thinking also explains the biggest problem with Invincible right now. Robert Kirkman’s animated Prime Video series quickly established itself as an ultra-violent riff on the superhero genre that didn’t pull any punches. The mind-blowing season 1 reveal that the Superman-inspired hero Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons) was actually a spy sent by fascist aliens to prepare Earth for invasion set the tone for an epic saga starring his half-human son, Mark. But in the years since, each new season has seemed more interested in expanding the world of Invincible than in telling the story that captivated audiences in the first place. And while some of those stories have been great (especially anything involving the Gillian Jacobs-voiced superhero Atom Eve), the result is a series that sometimes feels like it’s treading water when it should be swimming forward at superhuman speed.