The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

I think this gets better with each watch, but ultimately at the end of the day it still should have just been a movie. I'm excited for Captain America 4 and the Thunderbolts. It's unfortunate that there will be four years between this and those.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier works best as a binge. I enjoyed it week-to-week when it came out, but the momentum and flow are just better if you power through it.

Bucky and Falcon get some much needed character development to position them as top tier characters in the new saga. They were already good characters but this separates them a bit from being Cap's sidekicks.

It's great having Sharon and Zemo back. Sharon deserved more time than her MCU run leading into this, and Zemo is a top tier villain for being just a regular human bad guy. He is pretty funny here, and I won't say I was rooting for him, but I wasn't NOT rooting for him. We also get a few newcomers to set up some of the future projects.

Some of the Flag Smashers plot is a little messy and doesn't make a ton of sense. It is interesting to have some post-blip world building though. The films don't usually have a lot of spare time for that, so this fills in a few of the blanks.

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