Marvel's Runaways gets a season 2 premiere date and an MCU connection tease
One of the more annoying aspects of Netflix’s Marvel shows—beyond the overly long seasons—is the weird insistence on maintaining a noticeable distance between themselves and the big-screen Marvel movies that they ostensibly share a universe with. Characters rarely mention Captain America by name, despite the fact that he should be one of the most famous people in the world, and few people living in Netflix’s New York seem particularly freaked out that a bunch of aliens invaded Manhattan a few years ago. So far, Hulu’s Runaways adaptation has followed the early issues of the comic it’s based on by keeping any connections to the larger Marvel universe at a bare minimum, a decision that’s less jarring there than in the Netflix shows because Runaways takes place in Los Angeles and centers on some teens who are too cool to care about Cap and Thor.