THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER Season 1 Review; A Hard-Hitting And Action-Packed New Chapter In The MCU
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier s first season concluded on Disney+ yesterday, and after reviewing the series on a weekly basis, we re now sharing our verdict on all six instalments as a whole.
JoshWilding |
4/24/2021
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was supposed to be the first Marvel Studios Television project to hit Disney+, but the pandemic meant we got
WandaVision first. That hasn t really affected how we viewed this series, but the Scarlet Witch s story definitely never varied as much in terms of quality on a week-by-week basis (a sign perhaps that Jac Schaeffer was a stronger showrunner than Malcolm Spellman). As a result, it s fair to say that this team-up has been an inconsistent experience, even though every episode has been either great or very good. However, whileÂ
Falcon and the Winter Soldier Captain America Reveal Leaves Fans Emotional
On 4/23/21 at 7:22 AM EDT
Spoilers ahead.
Anthony Mackie is now Marvel s first Black Captain America in a major change to the MCU canon.
The final episode in the record-smashing Disney+ series saw Sam Wilson (played by Anthony Mackie) embrace his role as the new star-spangled Avenger as the former Falcon took to the sky with Steve Rogers (Chris Evans ) shield and wings from Wakanda.
In 2019 s
Avengers: Endgame, Steve Rogers retired as Captain America and handed the shield over to a reluctant Sam. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan takes place six months after the events of Avengers: Endgame.
THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER Episode 6 Review; Ushers In A Bold New Era Of Storytelling For The MCU
The season finale of
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier just hit Disney+, and we re now weighing in with our verdict on how the six-part series wraps up. Be warned, some
spoilers for the episode follow.
JoshWilding |
4/23/2021
WandaVision, it didn t have the same writer working on each instalment), but this finale definitely doesn t disappoint. Putting Sam Wilson s transformation into Captain America front and centre, One World, One People  feels every bit as grand in scale as the big budget blockbusters set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with tonnes of impressive set pieces and flawless visual effects. However, those never overshadow the sort of character beats that continue to help single out this series as being more than just an action movie broken into six parts.
Can there be a Black Captain America? Sam Wilson has lots of thoughts, as he explains in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, in which he gets his Captain America costume from the comics and delivers a speech that will have major implications for Marvel movies and any Falcon and the Winter Soldier season 2. Let us explain.