Thankfully, the show brought Helmut Zemo ( Daniel Brühl), the conniving villain from Civil War, back into the mix, and he's brought an influx of energy to the show. Bucky on a date with a waitress? Sam making Gumbo? Was this the same show? And while Bucky ( Sebastian Stan) and Sam are charismatic as ever, it's weird to even think back about some of the threads already lost from early episodes. And her seemingly unnamed cohorts getting a whole bunch of random dialogue doesn't help that cause.
The entire Flag-Smasher storyline has been confusing and difficult to follow, and while their leader, Karli Morgenthau, may be right, it's been a hard motivation to track and an even trickier one to get viewers to care about. While I've appreciated the fact that it's cut from the same cloth as the MCU's resident spy/political thriller Captain America: The Winter Soldier ( still the franchise's best film, in my opinion), it'd be lying to say that the show has been hitting on all fronts. Now, let's level things out for just a moment: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has had its ups and downs. This is a twisted form of the Steve Rogers and Bucky dynamic MCU fans are used to Walker isn't all heart and no brawn, but rather all the brawn anyone could ever want, but without the confidence to ever feel like he's worthy of what he has or what he's done. Walker knows the enormous task he's been given, and it takes his loyal military buddy Lemar Hoskins (Clé Bennett) to calm his anxieties. While we first see Walker as the "new Captain America," winking at the close of episode 1, the second episode opens with an unmasking. But what they don't see is what most of us would leave unseen: nerves. In Walker, the government sees someone with the outward qualities of the Steve Rogers they knew. And that's why we meet three time medal of honor winner John Walker, played to absolute perfection by the excellent and certainly no-longer-under the radar Wyatt Russell.Īnd we're just going to say it straight: Walker is the best thing about the show. Someone who, among other things, didn't side with the aforementioned Captain America in going against the government (as we saw in Captain America: Civil War).
In the closing moments of that episode, we find out that the push for Sam to turn in the shield wasn't, in fact, to "do the right thing," as the random government guy tells him, but rather to give the iconic weapon to someone they can more easily control. In the first episode of what was planned as Disney+'s first Marvel Cinematic Universe series, Sam Wilson ( Anthony Mackie) turns Captain America's shield in to the government. But The Falcon and the Winter Soldier asks a different question: what if it isn't? When the Russo brothers decided to devote some of the final moments of Avengers: Endgame to establishing a clear line of succession for who would hold the red, white, and blue Vibranium shield next, the choice felt crystal clear.
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The following story contains spoilers for both Avengers: Endgame and Disney+'s series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.ĭisney+'s The Falcon and the Winter Soldierpromised us a new Captain America, and we got one.
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