‘Ironheart’ Review: Marvel Miniseries Feels Like an Ill-Fitting Suit
- The Ironheart miniseries starring Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams began streaming on Disney+ on June 24, 2025.
- The series follows Riri, a Chicago-born MIT student building Iron Man-inspired suits, facing expulsion and personal loss after Black Panther: Wakanda Forever introduced her character.
- Ironheart mixes grounded drama with high-flying action and includes Riri joining a crew led by Parker Robbins, a magic user, while exploring themes like race, ambition, and grief.
- The first three episodes premiered June 24, with the next three releasing July 1, as the series tries to recapture Iron Man’s legacy amid Marvel’s quiet build-up and familiar creative patterns.
- Ironheart positions Riri to become a larger MCU figure but highlights the challenges Marvel faces innovating beyond its past successes and the original Iron Man’s influence.
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‘Ironheart’ review: Marvel miniseries feels like an ill-fitting suit
It’s hard to root for Riri Williams.


Ironheart review: "A relic of Marvel's content-at-all-costs era"
Marvel Studios draws his latest series on Disney +, Ironheart, with the first three episodes this Wednesday, June 25, then the last three a week later. We've seen the whole season and we're going to deliver our verdict. Without armor and fireworks of any kind. And without spoils especially.
‘Ironheart’ Proves Marvel’s TV Output Is an Absolute Disaster
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Marvel Two-and-a-half years after she was introduced, underwhelmingly, in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams finally gets the front-and-center treatment with Ironheart, a Disney+ series about a brilliant MIT…
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