How Parenting and Privilege Define the Characters in Hawkeye's First Two Episodes

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11/25/21 • 81 min

Charactercast is back with a deep dive into faces new and old from the first two episodes of the Hawkeye series!

Is Clint Barton dealing with his trauma or hiding from it? Is Kate Bishop in the hero game for the right reasons? What's Jack Duquesne really up to? And is Kate's mom a heckuva lot more sinister than she appears?

These may seem like unrelated questions, but two threads tie them together: parenting and privilege. We explain it all on the latest release from the Marvelous TV Club, starring Kristine Kippins, Jesse Taylor, and Marc Faletti.

Charactercast is back with a deep dive into faces new and old from the first two episodes of the Hawkeye series!

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