Ultimately, it’s uncertain of what it wants to say. But between Wilson’s half-baked politics, and the way Morgenthau and the Flag Smashers are framed, the result is a show that buckles under its own weight by the time it reaches its scattered finale. This, in theory, leads Wilson and company to reassess their own outlooks and methods when it comes to the world’s refugees. Morgenthau is the most frequent subject of conversation for the other characters, who all end up in debates over the Super Soldier Serum and the dynamic between political end goals and the actions used to achieve them. The show’s supporting characters are all meant to reflect its heroes in some way, especially Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly), a Black Super-Soldier hidden from history, and Karli Morgenthau (Erin Kellyman), leader of revolutionary group the Flag Smashers, who the series’ plot and themes revolve around. However, his struggles to reconcile Black American-ness with American anti-blackness, and to reconcile actions with ideals, feel nominal at best. The six-episode season exists in the shadow of Steve Rogers’ Captain America (Chris Evans), whose specter helps shape the in-world parameters for these questions of symbolic and physical might.At its center, The Falcon/Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) journeys towards taking up the Captain America mantle as a Black man in the public eye. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is a politically-loaded story about power, who wields it, and who has the right to wield it.
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