List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television series
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television series are American superhero television shows based on Marvel Comics characters. Marvel Television produced all the series released from 2013 to 2020. The shows were split into groups: the ABC series (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, and Inhumans), the Netflix series (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher), the young adult series (Runaways and Cloak & Dagger), and Adventure into Fear (Helstrom). While the shows were set in the MCU, the MCU movies rarely referenced the shows and the shows rarely referenced the movies, except for the early seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter.
Marvel Cinematic Universe television series | |
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Genre | Superhero |
Based on | Marvel Comics characters |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | Marvel Television: 29 (across 12 series) Marvel Studios: 12 (across 10 series) |
No. of episodes | Marvel Television: 386 Marvel Studios: 83 |
Production | |
Production companies | Marvel Television Marvel Studios Marvel Animation |
Related | |
Marvel Studios Special Presentations |
From 2021 to now, Marvel Studios is the one to produce the shows. The shows are now part of the MCU phases, which were previously only movies. The Phase Four shows include WandaVision (2021), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), Loki season 1 (2021), What If...? season 1 (2021), Hawkeye (2021), Moon Knight (2022), Ms. Marvel (2022), and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022), while the Phase Five shows include Secret Invasion (2023), Loki season 2 (2023), What If...? season 2 (2023), Echo (2024) and the upcoming shows Agatha All Along (2024), Eyes of Wakanda (2024), Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2024), Daredevil: Born Again (2025), and Ironheart (2025). Since Marvel Studios also produces the MCU movies, the shows and the movies are more connected now.
Marvel Television
ABC series
Series | Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Showrunner(-s) | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||||
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | 1 | 22 | September 24, 2013 | May 13, 2014 | Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jeffrey Bell[1] | |
2 | 22[2] | September 23, 2014 | May 12, 2015 | |||
3 | 22[3] | September 29, 2015 | May 17, 2016 | |||
4 | 22 | September 20, 2016 | May 16, 2017 | |||
5 | 22 | December 1, 2017 | May 18, 2018 | |||
6 | 13 | May 10, 2019 | August 2, 2019 | |||
7 | 13 | May 27, 2020 | August 12, 2020 | |||
Agent Carter | 1 | 8[4] | January 6, 2015[5] | February 24, 2015 | Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas, and Chris Dingess[6][7] | |
2 | 10[8] | January 19, 2016[9][10] | March 1, 2016 | |||
Inhumans | 1 | 8 | September 29, 2017 | November 10, 2017 | Scott Buck |
Netflix series
Series | Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Showrunner(-s) | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||||
Daredevil | 1 | 13[11] | April 10, 2015 | Steven S. DeKnight | ||
2 | 13 | March 18, 2016 | Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez[12] | |||
3 | 13 | October 19, 2018 | Erik Oleson | |||
Jessica Jones | 1 | 13[11] | November 20, 2015 | Melissa Rosenberg[13] | ||
2 | 13 | March 8, 2018 | ||||
3 | 13 | June 14, 2019 | Melissa Rosenberg and Scott Reynolds | |||
Luke Cage | 1 | 13[11] | September 30, 2016 | Cheo Hodari Coker[14] | ||
2 | 13 | June 22, 2018 | ||||
Iron Fist | 1 | 13[11] | March 17, 2017 | Scott Buck | ||
2 | 10 | September 7, 2018 | M. Raven Metzner | |||
The Defenders | 1 | 8[11] | August 18, 2017 | Marco Ramirez | ||
The Punisher | 1 | 13 | November 17, 2017 | Steve Lightfoot | ||
2 | 13 | January 18, 2019 |
Young adult series
Series | Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Showrunner(-s) | |||
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First aired | Last aired | Network | |||||
Runaways | 1 | 10 | November 21, 2017 | January 9, 2018 | Hulu | Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage | |
2 | 13 | December 21, 2018 | |||||
3 | 10 | December 13, 2019 | |||||
Cloak & Dagger | 1 | 10 | June 7, 2018 | August 2, 2018 | Freeform | Joe Pokaski | |
2 | 10 | April 4, 2019 | May 30, 2019 |
Adventure into Fear
Series | Season | Episode | Originally released | Network | Showrunner | ||
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Helstrom | 1 | 10 | October 16, 2020 | Hulu | Paul Zbyszewski |
Marvel Studios
All shows were released on Disney+. The animated shows are produced by Marvel Studios Animation.
Phase Four
Series | Season | Episodes | Originally released | Main writer | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||||
WandaVision | 1 | 9 | January 15, 2021 | March 5, 2021 | Jac Schaeffer[15] | |
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | 1 | 6 | March 19, 2021 | April 23, 2021 | Malcolm Spellman[16] | |
Loki | 1 | 6 | June 9, 2021 | July 14, 2021 | Michael Waldron[17] | |
What If...? | 1 | 9 | August 11, 2021 | October 6, 2021 | A. C. Bradley[18] | |
Hawkeye | 1 | 6 | November 24, 2021 | December 22, 2021 | Jonathan Igla[19] | |
Moon Knight | 1 | 6 | March 30, 2022 | May 4, 2022 | Jeremy Slater[20] | |
Ms. Marvel | 1 | 6 | June 8, 2022 | July 13, 2022 | Bisha K. Ali[21] | |
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law | 1 | 9 | August 18, 2022 | October 13, 2022 | Jessica Gao[22] |
Phase Five
Series | Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Main writer | Status | |||
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First aired | Last aired | |||||||
Secret Invasion | 1 | 6[23] | June 21, 2023 | July 26, 2023[24] | Kyle Bradstreet[25] | Released | ||
Loki | 2 | 6[26] | October 5, 2023[27] | November 9, 2023[28] | Eric Martin[26] | |||
What If...? | 2 | 9[29] | December 22, 2023[30] | December 30, 2023[30] | A. C. Bradley[31] | |||
Echo | 1 | 5[32] | January 9, 2024[33] | Marion Dayre and Amy Rardin[34] | ||||
Agatha All Along | 1 | 9[35] | September 18, 2024[36] | TBA | Jac Schaeffer[31] | Post-production | ||
Eyes of Wakanda | 1 | TBA | 2024[37] | TBA | TBA | In production | ||
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man | 1 | TBA | 2024[37] | TBA | Jeff Trammell | |||
Daredevil: Born Again | 1 | 18[38] | 9 | March 2025[36] | TBA | Dario Scardapane[39] | Post-production | |
9 | TBA | TBA | Pre-production | |||||
Ironheart | 1 | 6[40] | 2025[36] | TBA | Chinaka Hodge[40] | Post-production |
Phase Six
Series | Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Showrunner | Status | |||
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First aired | Last aired | |||||||
Untitled Vision series | 1 | TBA | 2026[41] | TBA | Terry Matalas[41] | In development |
Future
Series | Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Main writer | Status | ||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||||
Untitled Wakanda series | 1[42] | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | In development | |
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man | 2 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | In production | |
Marvel Zombies | 1 | 4[43] | TBA | TBA | Zeb Wells[44] | ||
Wonder Man | 1 | 10[45] | TBA[46] | TBA | Andrew Guest[47] | Post-production | |
Untitled Nova series | 1[48] | TBA | TBA | TBA | Sabir Pirzada[49] | In development | |
What If...? | 3 | TBA | TBA | TBA | Matthew Chauncey | In production |
Reception
Marvel Television
Title | Season | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic |
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ABC series | |||
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | 1 | 88% (72 reviews)[50] | 74 (33 reviews)[51] |
2 | 91% (33 reviews)[52] | — | |
3 | 100% (22 reviews)[53] | — | |
4 | 96% (25 reviews)[54] | — | |
5 | 100% (23 reviews)[55] | — | |
6 | 93% (15 reviews)[56] | — | |
7 | 100% (15 reviews)[57] | — | |
Agent Carter | 1 | 96% (50 reviews)[58] | 72 (27 reviews)[59] |
2 | 76% (21 reviews)[60] | — | |
Inhumans | 1 | 11% (47 reviews)[61] | 27 (20 reviews)[62] |
Netflix series | |||
Daredevil | 1 | 99% (72 reviews)[63] | 75 (22 reviews)[64] |
2 | 81% (57 reviews)[65] | 68 (13 reviews)[66] | |
3 | 97% (65 reviews)[67] | 71 (6 reviews)[68] | |
Jessica Jones | 1 | 94% (80 reviews)[69] | 81 (32 reviews)[70] |
2 | 82% (89 reviews)[71] | 70 (19 reviews)[72] | |
3 | 73% (40 reviews)[73] | 65 (7 reviews)[74] | |
Luke Cage | 1 | 90% (72 reviews)[75] | 79 (30 reviews)[76] |
2 | 85% (62 reviews)[77] | 64 (13 reviews)[78] | |
Iron Fist | 1 | 20% (85 reviews)[79] | 37 (21 reviews)[80] |
2 | 55% (47 reviews)[81] | 39 (6 reviews)[82] | |
The Defenders | 1 | 78% (100 reviews)[83] | 63 (30 reviews)[84] |
The Punisher | 1 | 68% (80 reviews)[85] | 55 (20 reviews)[86] |
2 | 62% (37 reviews)[87] | 58 (6 reviews)[88] | |
Young adult series | |||
Runaways | 1 | 86% (84 reviews)[89] | 68 (22 reviews)[90] |
2 | 88% (24 reviews)[91] | — | |
3 | 83% (12 reviews)[92] | — | |
Cloak & Dagger | 1 | 89% (54 reviews)[93] | 68 (15 reviews)[94] |
2 | 86% (7 reviews)[95] | — | |
Adventure into Fear | |||
Helstrom | 1 | 27% (26 reviews)[96] | 40 (9 reviews)[97] |
Marvel Studios
Title | Season | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic |
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Phase Four | |||
WandaVision | – | 92% (425 reviews)[98] | 77 (43 reviews)[99] |
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | – | 85% (338 reviews)[100] | 74 (32 reviews)[101] |
Loki | 1 | 92% (341 reviews)[102] | 74 (32 reviews)[103] |
What If...? | 1 | 94% (104 reviews)[104] | 69 (16 reviews)[105] |
Hawkeye | – | 92% (174 reviews)[106] | 66 (27 reviews)[107] |
Moon Knight | – | 86% (240 reviews)[108] | 69 (27 reviews)[109] |
Ms. Marvel | – | 98% (304 reviews)[110] | 78 (23 reviews)[111] |
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law | – | 77% (613 reviews)[112] | 67 (26 reviews)[113] |
Phase Five | |||
Secret Invasion | – | 53% (197 reviews)[114] | 63 (24 reviews)[115] |
Loki | 2 | 82% (167 reviews)[116] | 65 (23 reviews)[117] |
What If...? | 2 | 89% (28 reviews)[118] | 79 (7 reviews)[119] |
Echo | – | 71% (85 reviews)[120] | 62 (24 reviews)[121] |