Moon Knight's premiere episode, "The Goldfish Problem," introduces us to one of the two distinct characters that Isaac plays in the series: Steven Grant, a mild-mannered, geeky gift store clerk. That doesn't matter here. The accuracy of Moon Knight's location is not what we're interested in, but how well he can pull off a London accent.
It falls on me to be a judge and jury after years of inverse in the MCU, as io9's resident speaker of the Queen's English. I was hesitant to start the series. It didn't help that most of the Moon Knight marketing was shaped by a single read.
Thankfully, in the larger context of the series, the accent is charming and not just because it is coming out of Oscar's mouth. Steven is a bumbling character that transforms the series into something of an odd buddy comedy where Isaac plays both sides of the duo, a sharp contrast to the little snippets of Marc Spector we get in the first episode. There is something that feels real about Steven's lilts and twangs. I've never heard anyone say that before, but it sounds like it. The sheer amount of swearing that Isaac peppers his dialogue with is the most endearing of it all. He called himself a bit of a knob when dressing for a dinner date in a sea. It will be a shame to let that go when Moon Knight finds himself more involved with the wider MCU.
I'm not going to try and make a big statement here, I'm not going to try and show that the accent work is particularly important to Moon Knight's text. It's still quite silly, and that works mostly because you haven't heard us Brits. We all sound silly. It doesn't have to be more than that to hear that reflected back at you by one of the most handsome men on the planet. That's good, innit?
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