The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

With WandaVision coming to a conclusion, Marvel’s latest entry is the second of their highly anticipated Disney+ series; The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. While WandaVision was more focused on Marvel’s mystical side, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has aserious tone and big action sequences familiar to fans of the Captain America films.

The story takes place 6 months after the events of Avengers, Endgame. Sam Wilson, better known as the Falcon, struggles with the moral dilemma of picking up the mantle of Captain America that Steve Rogers left for him at the end of Endgame. Meanwhile, Bucky Barnes is in the middle of making up for his decades as the Winter Soldier by going to court-mandated therapy sessions. When a new extremist group called the Flag Smashers begins to show up, one of which has abilities similar to Captain America, Bucky and Sam have to team up to find out how this happened.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is a much different style of a show than its predecessor. WandaVision embraced the goofiness of American sitcoms and used it to its advantage by making them both creepy and funny at the same time. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, however, is off to a much grittier start and is more of a character study. Both characters go through many of the issues that affect society today, where Sam has to deal with the difficulties of being a Black American and Bucky deals with the limited help for mental health issues and PTSD.

After a rough first episode, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has really started to pick up at its halfway point. There are many fan-favorite side characters that have shown up to play important roles, such as Sharon Carter from Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War. Some surprise cameos have even shown up, with a cliffhanger ending on episode 3 that will surely make things interesting as it continues.

Overall, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is looking to be a very promising show by Marvel yet again, proving the MCU can in fact fit in the small screen and still be successful.

Written by Sam Sussman

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