'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' Finally Gets Good in Episode 5
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s fifth episode is a fully engaging hour of television, inviting the question: Why did it take so long for the show to find its feet? The first two-thirds of the series were disappointingly uneven in tone, struggling to develop the main characters or focus on any of the half-dozen disparate subplots. But episode 5 feels like the show we wanted from the beginning: a buddy-cop story with a healthy balance between action, Sam and Bucky’s emotional arcs, and the show’s more serious themes. Warning: This article contains spoilers. The political storytelling ...