Danny receives an invitation like no other. Colleen and Claire face a difficult choice. A worried Joy confronts her brother.

The sixth episode of Marvel’s Iron Fist is directed by RZA who gives us the most stylish of the episodes so far. The episode is a martial arts movie trope of the hero having to go through a string of battles to emerge out the other end a stronger warrior. In this case, the battles are against the Immortal Weapons, a relatively new addition to the Iron Fist comics world, introduced a decade ago by Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, and David Aja.

The episode is broken down into two parts, there’s the tournament and then there’s Claire and Colleen dealing with their injured guest.

The episode is full of tropes. There’s the fighting tournament. The martial artist who listens to the “ghost” of his teacher. Each battle teaching the fighter a lesson. There’s not much new here other than it introduces an interesting aspect from the Iron Fists comics and it teases something greater is going on.

Madame Gao makes her big introduction as she’s the one who’s pulling the strings. She admits she knows where K’un L’un is, having been there, but more interesting is she knows Danny’s dad. It adds a wrinkle to things and actually makes the series start to get interesting.

But, the highlight is Clair and Colleen who have to save their guest and that leads to some action down the road in a familiar hospital. If there wasn’t a case in previous episodes that we need a series of just these two, then this completely makes it. Their scenes and interactions are the breath of fresh air this series needs and has been lacking. It’s night and day as far as the acting, the interactions, the delivery, it’s actually entertaining and fun.

It’s taken six episodes to get interesting. But, at least it’s gotten interesting.

Overall Rating: 6.35