The Falcon and the Winter Soldier didn’t draw the same reaction, from fans or critics, in part because it seemed caught halfway between TV and movie formats, as evidenced by the large cinematic climaxes unevenly paced throughout its run of episodes. The show also shouldered the burden of detailing the aftermath of the Snap and wound up bogged down in a sociopolitical thought experiment of what the world might look like if half its population were erased. Future MCU installments would largely opt to sidestep this narrative sinkhole.
