The premiere episode of Marvel's animated Spider-Man show pinballs between being an MCU cover band and doing its own thing.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is technically the next installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But only technically, because it’s set in an alternate timeline in which Peter Parker never meets Tony Stark,

In the second episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Norman Osborn invites Parker to join the Oscorp internship program. This turns out to be a real program, unlike the Stark Internship which was just a cover in the main MCU.

Man’s placement in the endless web known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, executive producer Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt said something happens in the new Disney+ show that branches it off from the traditional timeline Tom Holland’s Spider-Man occupies.

I f there's anything that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man absolutely nails in its opening episodes, it's the soap opera-esque interplay between the characters in Peter Parke

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man already delivers a very different take on Peter Parker than anything that has been seen in the MCU to date.