Spider-Noir Episode 5 Review

We are on to the second half of the season with Spider-Noir Episode 5 Betrayal. We learn Ben's origin story as the Femme Fatale twists again. We discuss it all in spoiler filled detail so make sure you are all caught up before joining us.

*OOPS. Derek mentions "Across the Spider-Verse" as our intro to Spider-Noir. Of course he meant "Into The Spider-Verse". Our chat all about that excellent animated Spider movie is available here: https://tvpodcastindustries.com/podcast/tv-podcast-industries/episode/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-movie-review

Spider-Noir Episode 5 "Betrayal" DetailsExecutive Producers are Harry Bradbeer, Oren Uziel, Steve Lightfoot, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, Aditya Sood, Dan Shear

Directed by Alethea Jones

Written by Jennifer Frazin & Steve Lightfoot

Episode Synopsis:

After Cat Hardy learns that Ben Reilly is The Spider he takes her on a proper date to Millie's Diner. Ben reveals that he got his powers fifteen years earlier during the final days of World War I.

After discovering German experiments on POWs he was liberating, he was bitten by a mutated half-spider prisoner. From that day on Ben had arachnid DNA.

Armed with an unmissable exclusive story about The Spider’s battle with the electric powered Dirk Leyden, Robbie Robertson reclaims his job at the Daily Bugle.

He and Janet discover every metahuman had been treated by the same physician Dr. Alethea Faber before developing powers.

While Robbie interrogates Dr. Faber and her secretary Ogden, The Spider steals medical files proving Faber tried to cure the metahumans but instead aggravated their conditions, and now they will all die if they keep using their powers.

Meanwhile Flint Marko, now Silvermane's right-hand man, recruits Lonnie Lincoln and together they free Dirk Leyden from prison to join them.