![]() ![]() For a Black man to take on that role – one that’s emblematic of a nation that’s long been unable to address its institutional racism – carries disturbing implications that haunt Sam throughout The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’s six hour-long episodes. The character arc of Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) deals with his struggle to follow in the footsteps of Steve Rogers, his departed friend whose last act in Avengers: Endgame was to pass onto Sam the Captain America shield. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’s most prominent and well-explored theme is that of race and Black America. Even so, its ambition frequently wins the battle over its uneven quality and lacklustre management of its many components. Often closer to the run of a (good) Netflix Marvel show than anything seen on the big screen, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is a surprisingly weighty, frequently engrossing show – though every so often it flies too close to the sun and demonstrates an inability to restrain its scope to a level that can be adequately explored in the time it has. The story of Sam Wilson and James “Bucky” Barnes is less a comic book villain-busting adventure and more an examination of institutional racism, radicalisation, and the looming shadow of lost heroes. If you believed The Falcon and The Winter Soldier would be, as its marketing seemed to suggest, a standard Marvel movie chopped into six television-sized pieces, then the reality certainly comes as a surprise. ![]()
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