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‘The Bear’ Comes Roaring Back and ‘Secret Invasion’ Falls Flat. Plus Nicole Holofcener on Making ‘You Hurt My Feelings’

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Nick Fury on Sabre

I think it's more that Nick Fury has never been a character. He's just been like a seamstress stitching together things and him being in the credits of Iron Man 15 years ago really was him saying, I want to be a superhero. And then the comics raced to turn historically white character with like a white beard into Sam Jackson by making a new Nick Fury junior who looks like Sam Jackson. But anyway, yeah, you can kind of feel the pulse, not just of the show, but of the creative hope for the show in those scenes. Like let's give him some swagger. Let's give him something to play with. The special effects isn't as good as other TV

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