The Worst: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Falcon and the Winter Soldier opened with a lot of promise, wanting to give Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson a challenging path to the shield Steve Rogers had offered him—whether he actually was sure he wanted it or not. Alas, instead the meandering, aimless, and often clueless Falcon and the Winter Soldier delivered Marvel’s foray into streaming a toothless dud, one that struggled to take its exploration of race as far as it should while simultaneously whiffing on giving Sam and Bucky either much in the way of compelling opponents or really anything that made their arcs over the show feel like they were worth going through in the first place. It didn’t help that the more its creators tried to explain the show after its release, the more it got worse.
