Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, on Disney+
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This series looks like traditional animation, but it's actually cel-shaded computer animation (just like What If...?, which in one episode had a different version of Spider-Man, but with the same voice actor as in this series). The animation style is also designed to resemble the art of early Spider-Man comic books. The series is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but set in a different universe than the main MCU (so it's not quite the same Spider-Man seen in Homecoming and its sequels). But there are events from the MCU that are mentioned in this series, which must have happened in a very similar way to how they happened in the main universe. (And May Parker looks closer to the MCU version than any other version of May that I've seen before.)

Season One
Peter Parker is supposed to attend Midtown High School, but on his first day there, a portal opens and a fight breaks out between Dr. Strange and an alien symbiote. The school is badly damaged in the battle, so Peter will have to go to a different school. During the battle, the symbiote attacks a student named Nico Minoru, and Peter distracts it to save her. But a spider also comes through the portal and bites Peter. The story then jumps forward a few months, and Peter is now leading a double life as Spider-Man. He's also best friends with Nico now, though she doesn't know his secret. And I guess they've both got a crush on an older girl at school named Pearl Pangan, who is dating the school's football team's captain, Lonnie Lincoln, with whom Peter becomes friends.

Because of his excellence as a science student, Peter is given an internship at Oscorp, by its CEO, Norman Osborn. He joins three other interns: Jeanne Foucault, Amadeus Cho, and Asha. They're all overseen by a cantankerous scientist named Dr. Bentley Wittman. Each of the interns is given a different project to work on, and Peter works with a scientist named Dr. Carla Connors. At one point, Peter leaves to do some superhero-ing, but he gets caught changing into his Spider-Man outfit on Norman's personal security surveillance. It turns out, Norman had granted the internships to people he thought could be Spider-Man, and he was hoping to find out who it was, so they could work together. So now that's what he and Peter do. Norman has his engineers create different suits for Peter to use, most of which he tries out and rejects, before settling on one. And one day, Norman's son, Harry, who is a social media influencer, accidentally learns that Peter is Spider-Man. So Harry joins team Spider-Man. Peter encourages Nico to becomes friends with Harry, and one day he unwittingly reveals Peter's secret to her.

Lonnie's younger brother, Andre, joins a gang called the 110th Street gang. Lonnie tries to get him out of it, and offers himself to join instead of Andre. The gang's leader, Big Donovan, agrees. He eventually gets the nickname "Tombstone". His duties with the gang lead him to miss football games he's supposed to be playing in, and he keeps secrets from Pearl, who is understandably very upset when she learns what he's been up to. The 110th gang gets into a turf war with another gang called the Scorpions, led by Mac Gargan. Meanwhile, Spider-Man has been encountering various criminals using advanced technology, and Norman determines that it was created by a former colleague of his, Otto Octavius, who is selling it to fund his research. But Norman tracks him down and reports his location to the authorities, and Octavius is captured by Iron Man and sent to prison. Gargan gets ahold of such technology, a powerful sort of robotic scorpion tail, and he attacks the 110th. Spider-Man shows up and fights Gargan while the 110th gang gets away, and he ends up being badly beaten by Gargan. Later, Norman tells him his problem is that he's holding back his true power, and he needs to get better. He also gives Peter a piece of advice that I won't spoil, except to say it's very nearly something familiar to all iterations of Spider-Man, but more ominous (with just one word changed). Later, the 110th hijack an Oscorp truck that was transporting Octavius's tech, which Norman had claimed for himself. Before they can steal any of the tech, Gargan and his gang show up to fight them again, until Spider-Man intervenes. (He's now wearing a new suit that Harry had a hand in designing, since the old one had been wrecked in his battle with Gargan.) While Gargan is distracted, Lonnie enters the truck to find a weapon he can use, and ends up being exposed to gas that makes him much stronger and seemingly invulnerable. He joins Spider-Man, and together they beat Gargan.

In the season finale, Norman reveals what all the interns' projects were for: together, they've created all the technology necessary to make a portal to anywhere in the universe, apparently. When they turn it on, a symbiote comes through, the very same one Dr. Strange had fought in the season premiere. Dr. Strange and Spider-Man now fight the symbiote, and eventually manage to send it back to its own planet and close the portal, but a small piece of it breaks off and remains at Oscorp. (The battle involves a trippy predestination paradox.) Later, Harry starts his own company to work with Spider-Man, the Worldwide Engineering Brigade, and invites all the interns, as well as Lonnie, to join. Lonnie also becomes the new leader of the 110th. We also learn that Daredevil (whom Spider-Man had fought once before) has been working with one of the interns, who will now work as a spy inside W.E.B. And Norman finds the piece of the symbiote, but we don't see yet what will happen with that. And Peter's Aunt May goes to visit someone in prison, but I won't spoil who that was just now. It definitely took me by surprise, because I thought he was dead. I suppose i'll have to reveal it next season, though. There's also a revelation about a secret Nico's been keeping, which didn't surprise me. But I look forward to learning more about that.

I've left out any number of details, but I felt I needed to spoil a great many things about the season, in order to introduce all the players and events that are necessary to know what the heck is going on. Anyway, the series is obviously pretty complex, and interesting. I like the character development and all the different relationships between characters. And... I dunno, there's just so much going on. I do want to mention that Spider-Man's voice actor said before the series began that he had been worried the show would be "annoying and woke", but that it wasn't. It's kind of disturbing to me that he would say that, because "woke" is definitely not something I find annoying. However, there are various elements to the show that I'm sure the anti-woke crowd would find annoying, like Norman and Harry being Black, and Dr. Connors being a woman, and so forth. So I don't really know what the actor meant by saying it wasn't woke, unless he just said that to trick anti-woke people into watching the show, or something. But I don't really care about any of that. I just really enjoyed the season, and I suspect when it continues I'll come to like it more than I already do.