The first thing to know about Prime Video’s new Spider-Man-adjacent series, Spider-Noir, is that the character is not part of the animated Spider-Verse film continuity, nor is it related to any of Marvel’s Spider-Man releases. And that’s a good thing, because the superhero depicted here is a god-awful mess. He’s old, he drinks too much, he’s bitter and cynical, and he’s so burdened by tragedy that he hasn’t done anything remotely heroic in five years. He is, then, a perfect film noir character. Co-showrunner Oren Uziel — inspired by, but not slavishly bound to, the Spider-Man Noir comic series that debuted in 2009 — builds on this idea with an impressively crafted reinterpretation of the character that places him in a finely tuned simulacrum of classic film noir. Indeed, the show doesn’t just have the word “noir” in its title; it’s the show’s animating principle.
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May 25, 2026 No Comments
