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Captain America enters a brave new world with Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) taking on the mantle of the shield-wielding hero. Sam Wilson operates as Captain America for the American government, partaking in clandestine missions. Sam stops a black market deal in Oaxaca, Mexico, which results in him saving an international treaty and the hero getting […]
The first installment of Marvel and Disney+’s new series What If . . .? asks the question “What if Captain Carter were the first Avenger? (Instead of Steve Rogers.)” The answer, as you might have expected, was that Peggy Carter would become a hero swathed in the Union Jack, kicking Nazi ass and sacrificing herself […]
In the end, the grand message of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was a simple one – With great power comes great responsibility. Some of our characters learned it for themselves, some failed to learn it and paid the ultimate price, and some had to be taught it by our new Captain America in […]
Here’s a lesson for all future MCU TV series: If a two-minute appearance by a well-known guest star can change the face of your show, elevating the energy level and making your audience perk up and take notice, more so than any action scene or character beat before or after, there’s a foundational issue with […]
The biggest benefit to television is that it allows writers to spend time developing characters over the course of hours across a season, rather than being confined to the mere two-hour window provided by most films. As I’ve written about before in these pieces, that was the greatest boon I could see from Marvel branching […]
Amazing how much better a show like The Falcon and The Winter Soldier becomes when you allow the titular characters (who have a proven track record of solid chemistry together) to actually work with one another! And, with a lot of the table-setting and expositional work handled in the series premiere (noting how messed up […]
There’s a history in television of outgoing showrunners – the person or people who are the last word in the narrative flow and character development within a TV show – ending their run on the series with a major revelation or cliffhanger, thus forcing the new showrunner to figure a way out of a seemingly […]