Disney Plus’ Hawkeye is the current live action show in the MCU television lineup. It came out of the gate appealing to everyday people and die hard fans’ affection for the grounded master archer. Only, to have Disney pull a boiler room pump and dump scam; convincing audiences that the show was centered around the original Jeremy Renner Hawkeye when in fact it focuses on Kate Bishop and passing the baton from Renner’s Hawkeye to her. This should have been called the Kate Bishop show and that would have set the proper expectations. But then no one would have shown up to watch the series.

This game Disney played is exactly why Hawkeye is the lowest rated series in the MCU live action family.