Disney Plus may have passed 118 million subscribers in the first two years of its existence, which is an incredible number of customers for what's essentially a startup streaming service, but the platform isn't without its flaws.
While it may have been lost in the streaming shuffle after debuting on the same day as the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Hawkeye, Kevin Hart's semi-autobiographical Netflix miniseries True Story has evidently been drawing in plenty of eyeballs based on the social media reactions.
When Disney Plus series Hawkeye was first announced, it instantly led to much rumor-mongering that it would mark the end of the line for Jeremy Renner's ten-year stint as the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Clint Barton.
Sam Neill has found it very easy to be hilarious on social media when he's doing it on purpose, but his latest bout of online hilarity has unfolded entirely by accident, after it was shared with the world by his Jurassic Park and Jurassic World: Dominion co-star Laura Dern.
Remember that brief period of time when filmmaker Scott Stewart tried his damndest to turn mild-mannered English gent Paul Bettany into a badass action hero? Anyone? Well, it definitely happened, and the results weren't great.
When Spider-Man: No Way Home was confirmed to be a multiversal adventure, bringing back Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus, Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin, Thomas Haden Church's Sandman and Rhys Ifans' Lizard, not to mention the rampant speculation surrounding Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, fans were stoked.
Such is the nature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye viewers were keeping their eyes and ears open for any visual or audible reference to things that have either been or are set to happen in the future, with the connective tissue threaded throughout the franchise one of the reasons why people love it so much.
A quick glance at the internet would make it abundantly clear that the number one topic of conversation today is Hawkeye, with the Marvel Cinematic Universe's fifth Disney Plus exclusive of the year dropping its first two episodes, which have set the stage nicely for the next four weeks.
The career of Nicolas Cage appears to have turned a corner, with the actor having largely abandoned his insatiable desire to star in as many generic VOD thrillers as possible in favor of interesting roles that require an actual performance, but at least we've got Bruce Willis to pick up the slack in his stead.