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Black Sails Season 1 Episode 5 Review – V
Flint and the Walrus crew play a deadly chess match on the open sea. Richard forces Eleanor’s hand. Rackham makes a career change. Bonny confesses to Max.

(Summary provided by starz.com)

REWATCH Q&A

Q: Why is Mr. Scott on the Andromache?
A: Because Mr. Guthrie betrayed him!! How did I not understand this the first time through??

BEST FLINT MOMENT

The show starts out VERY strong with a conversation between Flint and Billy discussing both trust and leadership. They walk such an interesting and fine line between admiration and suspicion!

Billy: How can you pretend you don’t have any doubts about this?
Flint: Years of practice. There’s always doubt, Billy. No sane man would deny that. No good captain would acknowledge it.

And then Flint proceeds to lay out every possible outcome of their chase, assuring both Billy and us that yes, he is in fact a tactical genius.

TODAY’S RUNNER UP

I would give this to Billy for his brilliant turn as quartermaster (especially in using Positive Manipulation to empower Dufresne), but I’ve got more to say about Eleanor, so I’m going to give it to her.

When her father cuts his ties with their business in Nassau and runs, Eleanor refuses to let her life’s work go to waste. She forms a consortium, choosing the exact right people who are low enough on the pirate totem pole to be grateful for the chance to serve her. And in diffusing power, she also diffuses responsibility the next time a mob appears on her doorstep.

I also adore her defense of Max. Everyone insists it was Max’s choice to stay with the Ranger crew, and I earlier defended this viewpoint, but Eleanor is totally right when she says, “She chose it. She chose it. I’ve been repeating those words to myself for well over a week and I find them wanting.” Who expected Eleanor to be the voice of morality on this show, huh??

Finally, in the wonderful words of Jack Rackham, “To assume we’ve seen the last of Eleanor Guthrie is, well, not to know her.”

LOL MOMENT

There was no true laugh-out-loud moment in this episode for me, but I do love Jack’s conversation with Mrs. Mapleton and especially the camera-pan to his scruffy puppy friends lounging in the background.

WELL-FORMED THOUGHTS

This is our first real look at pirate boarding strategy, and BOY IS IT GOOD. Even better on rewatch when I could finally understand everything that was going on. There’s so much! It’s wonderful to see the roles of every crew member, from Captain Flint, who plans the strategy, to Quartermaster Billy, who explains it to the crew, who carry it out. AND WHAT A STRATEGY. Using a sharpshooter to make the Andromache’s helmsman lose grip on their wheel so that the current will bring their ship alongside theirs so that they can board? IT’S BEAUTIFUL.

Alongside the strategy, we get to see the crew up close as they prepare, putting on their Pirate Outfits and Paint, looking fierce but hiding from gunshot until the time to board has come. We see how they psych themselves, and others, up, whether that means lying about being invincible or kissing their sword for good luck. And then, WOW, is it such a good move to have us board the Andromache with Dufresne. It’s his first time experiencing the fear and the chaos and the bloodlust, and we truly get a sense of how kill-or-be-killed the experience is.

After all that…the quiet aftermath, and PART TWO because this is secretly a two-parter and we have to wait until next episode to find out how Flint will finish taking over the Andromache!

FRAGMENTED THOUGHTS
- “Who’s Mrs. Barlow?”
  “You’ve heard the stories, haven’t you? She’s a witch who pledged my soul to the devil, and anoints me with the blood of infants to keep me safe in battle.”
  “Come on, I’m not stupid.”
  “No, you’re not. So you can probably guess it isn’t as much fun to tell stories about how your captain makes a home with a nice Puritan woman who shares his love of books.”
- Jack Rackham now owns a brothel! This is problematic, but less so than Noonan, who was AWFUL. Also, Jack is either a terrible or a genius negotiator, giving Mrs. Mapleton a raise from 3% to 40%.
- It is SO REWARDING to see Billy and Flint working together successfully and nodding in happiness at each other.
- The Asshole Pirate is truly reaching new heights of Assholery, and I hate him. MAJOR PROPS to Eleanor for powerfully walking towards him as he threatens her.
- This is the episode when Anne becomes a fully-fledged character! First she and Jack have a lovely moment where she wants to kill her problems and Jack is all, “darling, no,” and then we get her coming to help Max. When she takes the horrific 1700s abortion machine away from Mrs. Mapleton and does it herself, we see a gentle Anne for the first time. When she shares with Max a story of her own reaction to sexual assault (cutting off a dude’s balls), you see just how brutal you have to be to survive as a woman during this time period. And WOW, the sadness of this:
  “You were the one who threw me to them in the first place.”
  “I only thought they’d kill you.”
- Flint and Gates are Billy’s dads.
- Vane loves that Eleanor is stronger than him, and this will never not be attractive to me.
- And now we get to see “civilization”s true face: the respectable Andromache is actually a slave ship. As if that weren’t dehumanizing enough, Captain Bryson is willing to kill women in order to force a man to go above decks on a suicide mission. Grossness on top of grossness.
- Speaking of grossness. Mr. Guthrie SOLD MR. SCOTT INTO SLAVERY because he sided with Eleanor, and this is The Worst.
- Before realizing there are slaves aboard, Flint wonders why Captain Bryson wouldn’t fear them burning the ship and killing everyone aboard. It’s because Bryson (who represents Civilization and England) knows that Flint (who represents Piracy and Self-Rule) would never massacre slaves. 😦 I am dead now, RIP me.
- Silver does not know how to shut up, even when cuffed to a couch, to everyone’s benefit.
- I’m not sure what to do with this: “Guilt is natural. It also goes away if you let it. But losing your life’s work, that doesn’t go away.” It is definitely a very Silver thing to say, but I can’t tell if the show wants us to agree with him. What do you think?
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
- Is it TRULY so important to have an extra pair of (unskilled) hands boarding an enemy ship that they’d risk their only crewman who is good at maths? Hmm.
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April 7, 2021
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 3 RECAP – Power Broker

Episode three of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is fun enough, full of explosions, fights, and familiar faces. But we didn’t learn a lot or advance the plot. They’ve only got three episodes left…I’m not really sure what they’re trying to do with this show.

We start with New Cap searching for leads on the rogue super soldiers. He rages when the person they raid spits in his face, screaming, “Do you know who I am?” Smells like toxic masculinity to me. The only redeeming thing is Hoskins’ bulletproof vest with the star motif.

Bucky visits Zemo in prison, and it’s terrible. He apologizes for using Bucky in Captain America: Civil War by saying, “You were a means to a necessary end.” Endless crying; that’s the story of Bucky’s life.

Bucky and Sam argue about whether to break Zemo out of prison. Except the argument is useless, because he already escaped. Scenes like these always alarm me, because they make it seem very easy to break out of prison. Zemo is very rich, and he rocks a fun fur collared coat. Apparently his plane and butler were on standby waiting for him to escape prison, which is very nice of them.

While they’re traveling to Madripoor, Zemo needles Bucky, reading from his atonement list. Turns out that’s the same notebook that Steve had, and my heart shatters a little bit. We also get another interesting comment on race relations, with Sam telling Bucky that Marvin Gaye is beloved and Zemo whitesplaining black culture to Bucky.

Madripoor is a rad city; formerly a pirate haven, currently a very colorful, diverse, and vaguely intimidating city Southeast Asia. Is this a real place? Google says no, and also that it’s the MCU’s first step toward the X-Men. As the three men walk through the city streets, graffiti reads, “Power Broker is watching.” At first I assumed Zemo would turn out to be the Power Broker in a long con sort of situation, but if this is supposed to tie in with X-Men, maybe it’s Wolverine? That would be rad! No one tell me; I like not knowing what’s going to happen next.

Sam has to drink snake guts and Bucky has to recreate his violent past in order to gain access to Selby, a badass older woman with short white hair! I instantly love her, which is too bad because she is murdered after Sam’s phone rings and his sister calls him by a name other than his alias. I’m glad we got to touch base with Sarah, but I really hope we get to see more of her soon. They’re globetrotting in a way that makes me doubtful.

(Also, it was explicitly shown that Bucky was filmed acting like the Winter Soldier. I assume this will not be good for him in his rehabilitation program.)

Sharon saves the day by killing Selby (RIP) and everyone else. Turns out, no one thought to clear her name after she helped Steve and Sam, which is…pretty bad. She fled to Madripoor and turned to a life of crime. I like her so much more in this tv show than in Civil War.

She takes them to a secret lab hidden in a storage container, where Nagal the scientist admits that he made 20 vials of super soldier serum, but that Karli stole them all, putting her on the Power Broker’s hit list. How did she know about the program in the first place?

While they’re talking, Sharon takes on all of the bounty hunters in Madripoor who have amazingly shown up simultaneously! She does look really badass righting, though, and I assume everyone has now joined me in loving her? The violence doesn’t stop! Zemo kills Nagal. The places blows up! Zemo escapes. The place blows up some more! Zemo puts on a mask and there is even more blowing up. Wow. This is an action show, guys, did you know?

Sharon won’t come with them, and Bucky refuses to move his seat forward for Sam, in a nice callback to the moment that their frenemies relationship began.

Sam and Bucky are still hung up on Captain America’s shield, and Bucky says he would have taken it before giving it to New Cap. Sam says he thinks he ought to have destroyed the shield. Sounds like some Flag Smasher talk there, Sam! I like it.

New Cap thinks Bucky and Sam busted Zemo out and tells Hoskin they are going to go rogue too. I assume this will be a bad thing, but it’s hard to judge him for it when our stars have just loosed a baddie into the world with seemingly no plan to bring him back to prison.

Karli has been having a hard day at the Resettlement Camp. A woman has died of tuberculosis (I guess because the camps are overpopulated), and she raids food supplies from somewhere that had six months supplies just sitting there. She and her friend with the cheekbones try to humanize the super soldiers to us, but then Karli blows up the building because “that’s the only language they understand.” Oh Karli.

In Latvia, Bucky breaks off from Sam and Zemo to pick up tiny balls with runes carved in them. I did not recognize them at all and genuinely gasped when a woman from Wakanda showed up. (She is apparently Ayo, a renegade Dora Milaje who fell in love with Aneka – are we about to get some lesbian Wakandans up in here??? YES PLEASE.) We are left eagerly awaiting more Black Panther tie-ins until next week!

This was very much a Bucky episode, though I wish we had gone a little deeper into how he is being affected by playing the Winter Soldier role. I assume we will find out in future episodes. I also hope we shift the focus back to Sam. I am a huge Bucky Barnes fan, but this show is doing a lot to interrogate black people in the MCU and in America more broadly, and Sam deserves the spotlight.

April 2, 2021
Black Sails Season 1 Episode 4 Review – IV
An undertaking by the Walrus crew ends in disaster. Silver warns Flint about Billy. Rackham and Bonny try to regain their livelihood. Eleanor needs help from her father. A figure from Vane’s past pays a visit.

(Summary provided by starz.com)

REWATCH Q&A

Q: What happens to Randall’s cat, Betsy?
A: She is seen running away unsquished, so I choose to believe she found a new home in the Nassau interior and is being treated well there. Sad that Randall doesn’t get to keep her, but honestly, having a cat on the ship would have stressed me out any time there was violence.

BEST FLINT MOMENT

I love that he steps up as captain to risk being crushed in order to save his crew, but even more, I love his mini-speech to Eleanor. Big picture, idealistic Flint is my favorite!

“Nobody will believe that it’s possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they’ll say? They’ll say that it was inevitable.”

Oh Captain, my Captain!

TODAY’S RUNNER UP

Miranda! I’ll talk more about her under “Well-Formed Thoughts,” but I love this passionate, sad woman that we are slowly getting to know. Especially heartbreaking was her kindness toward a little boy who then threw rocks at her and called her a witch. Dangerous era to be a woman with secrets.

LOL MOMENT

Silver can’t cook a pig, must take lessons from pirate captain on the sly. ❤

Flint: What the FUCK did you do to that?
Silver: I…cooked it?
Flint: You absolutely did not.

WELL-FORMED THOUGHTS

I really love the slow reveal of Miranda and Flint’s backstory, and it’s a testament to the show’s brilliance that it’s even more compelling on rewatch. Let’s review some of the things we learned about them in this episode, shall we?

We know that Flint hunted the Maria Aleyne in order to murder two people, and that when he returned to Nassau, he told Miranda it was “done.” We know that they have sex together, and that it is pretty spectacularly bad. Flint is a non-participant, and when Miranda finishes and lays against him, his eyes are dead and hers are teary. We know that after they are dressed, they show astounding vulnerability and intimacy toward each other.

Miranda: That book is something I shared with Thomas. I just – missed it. Our life then, when he was alive. I can feel myself forgetting it, and I don’t want to forget it. This place, this life that we’ve been living here, it doesn’t feel like living anymore. I can’t be alone in feeling this way. Some part of you must feel it too.
*Flint holds her face*
Flint: Things will get better here. I promise you they will.
*Flint kisses her forehead*

These mixed relational signals are further confused when Mr. Guthrie confronts Miranda with his knowledge that she is not Mrs. Barlow but Mrs. Hamilton. The mystery deepens!

“The portrait in your room depicts you alongside Lord Thomas Hamilton, son of Alfred Hamilton, the lord proprietor of these Bahama Islands…You see, I’ve had extensive dealings with the earl over the years, and so I’d long heard of the tragedy that befell his eldest son. But Thomas’s wife, long rumored to be the cheating sort, had begun a torrid affair with her husband’s closest friend, a promising young officer in His Majesty’s Navy. Upon discovering the affair, Thomas went mad with grief. His despair was so great, even the asylum couldn’t protect him from himself. As for Thomas’s wife, she’s said to have fled London along with her lover, partly out of shame, partly to escape retribution. Given the facts at hand, I am forced to assume that the lover is none other than our friend Captain Flint.”

FRAGMENTED THOUGHTS
- Gates and Billy are two of the only non-ambitious characters in this show, and they both receive promotions in this episode with the blessing of the crew. This contrasts quite nicely with John Silver and Captain Flint, both of whom have to scheme and lie in order to find/keep power.
- I do not enjoy the “fuck tent,” and I’m happy that this is the last time we ever have something like that.
- In a similar but even worse circumstance, we find Max making the best of a horrible situation. I love that she uses her captivity to try to teach pirates the joy of good, consensual, gentle sex, but Asshole Pirate ruins everything by being an Asshole. Anne has Feelings about this, but she is not yet a character that says or does much.
- Eleanor’s actions in taking away Vane’s ship and crew are starting to have significant repercussions re: her power in Nassau. The other pirates are resenting her and even calling her “Queen Eleanor” – a dangerous title in a democratic pirate republic.
- Mr. Scott is trying to be the voice of reason, but both Eleanor and Mr. Guthrie are using him. I liked that they finally addressed the fact that Mr. Scott is the Guthrie’s slave – this serves to make their relationships even more twisted, and his power and gravitas even more impressive.
- Also, Mr. Guthrie’s wig is hella awful.
- “Trust me. I am purely in this for myself and you know this. I have no reason to tell you anything other than the truth. Both our futures depend on this.” Flint doesn’t want to be won over by Silver, but he can’t help but listen!
- Jack is so impotent this season, and he’s far from the joy he will become, but this exchange with Noonan was a DELIGHT.
  “Then I believe we are at an impasse.”
  *blank stare*
  “A disagreement without prospect of resolution.”
  “Fuck you, Jack.”
- Vane’s having a trippy episode, high on opium and envisioning Eleanor and a Mysterious Bearded Man. His dream of Eleanor is especially revealing of his inner world, something we needed to see. I’m impressed by his knowledge of Eleanor and her ambition, as well as the revelation that this is exactly what attracted him to her. It’s also a joy to see him vulnerable, weeping, grieving, and fearful. He’s a human now!
- RIP Morley
- RIP Noonan, no wait, you can rest in agony for making a living off abused women.
“You know that she will stop at nothing to save this place. A place where she matters. A place where you matter. Except that in your heart, you know the truth – places like this aren’t meant to last.”

ACCUMULATING QUESTIONS
- Why is the Guthrie family repeatedly said to live in Boston when later they are said to live in Philadelphia?
Someone befriend this woman! No, not you, Mr. Guthrie.

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March 31, 2021
Black Sails Season 1 Episode 3 – III
Flint and Gates seek a partner to hunt the Urca d’Lima. Silver helps Billy with a morale problem. Vane impressed Eleanor by being reasonable. Gates gets a promotion.

(Summary provided by starz.com)

REWATCH Q&A

Q: Now that I know the characters and plot, does the rape scene serve any real narrative purpose?

A: I’m going to have to say yes, even though I still truly hate this scene. On rewatch, without the shock value, I can even appreciate that they made clear what was happening without lingering on Max’s pain or turning it into rape porn.

But the thing that really stood out to me this time was how much this was of Max’s choosing, and what this reveals about women’s options during this time period. Eleanor keeps trying to save her, but Max’s relationship with Eleanor has always had skewed power dynamics. First Eleanor is paying for the privilege of sleeping with Max, and it seems that also being rescued is too much for Max. By saying, “My actions cost you your pearls. Until my debt is paid, I am yours,” Max is asserting what little control of the situation that she can claim. I really think the show is trying to highlight just how shitty it was to be a woman at that time while allowing her some agency.

BEST FLINT MOMENT

We are introduced to Unreasonable Rage Monster Flint in this epsiode! We saw him rage in episode 1 when he fought Singleton, but that was strategic. Here he is just pouty and furious and I love it! It is also a wonderful glimpse of Flint’s relationship with Gates (father and emo teenager), and honestly, the comedy in this moment is just delightful.

TODAY’S RUNNER UP

Gates! He is a first-class quartermaster in this episode, conferring with Hornigold and Jack, negotiating, appeasing Billy, and ultimately being handed captaincy of Ship #2. He really is the only reasonable person in the show right now who’s focused on doing his job. I love Gates!

LOL MOMENT

Randall’s scream!! “That’s what I’ll do if he should wander.”

WELL-FORMED THOUGHTS

Let’s talk pirate alliances!

It’s clear now that although each pirate captain is fiercely ego-centric, they must rely on each other in order for Nassau to survive. There’s so much that must be navigated: captains, crews, ships, supplies. As Flint, Gates, and Eleanor plan to take the Urca gold, they must form alliances with first Hornigold and then Charles Vane in order to have everything necessary. It is fascinating to watch their negotiations, and to take note of whose decisions are based in reason, whose are based in emotion, and whose have a little bit of both. I love watching these fundamentally different people try to find a way to work together…at least until it all falls apart.

FRAGMENTED THOUGHTS
- We see a lot of Miranda Barlow this episode, though we don’t actually learn all that much about her yet. She’s clearly very intelligent, and she seems rather sad. Her relationship with Flint is a Mystery: she’s comfortable seeing him half-naked and bleeding, he’s making intense eye contact, and she seems very familiar with his plans to take the Urca gold. Just when she starts to open up and admit she’d hoped to spend more time with him, they’re interrupted and we must wait for more information until another episode!
- Silver is still being smart, revealing only part of the schedule and helping Billy ferret out potential mutineers.
- Flint: And when the Urca’s ours? What’s to stop me from killing you anyway?
  Silver: Well, it’s a few weeks from now. We might be friends by then!
  Flint: *smirk*
  Silver: *face falls*
  Me: Hehehehehe!
- Speaking of Silver’s attempts to win people over, his trying to charm Randall is so rewarding.
- Pirate fashion includes: billowing shirts, earrings, necklaces, ponytails and braids. ❤
- More statements on women’s roles during this time period when Eleanor talks to her dad: “We made you into the man you always insisted to us that you were.”
- Hornigold wants so badly to be important, but he’s just, like, sitting in a tent.
- “No matter how many lies we tell ourselves or how many stories we convince ourselves we’re part of, we’re all just thieves awaiting a noose.” (Callback to previous episode when Flint says the pirates are men in need of hope.)
- FLINT’S LAUGH WHEN GATES SUGGEST THEY WORK WITH VANE! I tried very hard to find a video clip of this, but failed. Anyone who can will earn major brownie points with me!
- This is the episode I started to like Vane, first with his “Be honest. Are you as surprised as I am that I’m the only one here behaving myself?” and then with his empathetic talk with Max. Although I don’t love his assertion that he had no choice in letting his men assault her while she’s chained up. YOU HAD A CHOICE, VANE. Sexual assault should never be a form of debt payment.
- “You’re too clever for your own good, Jack.” Truer words.
- There’s a lot going on with Miranda and Pastor Lambrick, but I’ll stick with this: Lambrick’s assertion that “It is Christ’s love of sinners that gave him strength to endure his agony” sounds a lot like Flint, and it’s telling that Miranda takes issue with this!
- Eleanor rewards Vane’s good behavior with sex. Vane continues to grow on me as he makes it clear that he wants to cuddle with her afterwards.
“How should you be? You should be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pouds. It stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, ‘How unlucky that this should happen to me.’ But not at all. Perhaps say instead, ‘How lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I’m not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have struck anyone, but not many who would have absorbed it without capitulation or complaint.”

ACCUMULATING QUESTIONS
- Are men ever forced to repay their debts through sexual favors?
  I thought not.
A rare Smiling!Flint appears ❤

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March 24, 2021
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 1 RECAP – New World Order

Captain America and the Winter Soldier is my favorite Marvel movie, both on its own merits and for its role in creating excellent fanfic (Ain’t No Grave by spitandvinegar is one of my all-time favorites), and I adored Marvel’s first foray into episodic storytelling with WandaVision, so there was no way I was going to miss Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson sniping at each other in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

Of course, in episode 1, Sam and Bucky aren’t even in the same city. This feels like a real misfire to me, especially because their chemistry is what the trailers have been advertising. It’s not that there aren’t interesting things happening in the show; it’s just fairly underwhelming so far.

We start with Sam Wilson on an Air Force mission in Tunisia. There are a lot of aerial escapades that are entertaining to watch, and I loved seeing Baltroc “the ballet fighter” again. After he saves the day in the knick of time, Sam enjoys some tea with his military contact Joaquin. All of this was action movie heavy and not really what I was here for.

Things get a little better when we shift to the Winter Soldier, and I know it’s horrific, but rank-haired murder goblin efficiently massacring people and grabbing someone through a wall is EXACTLY what I am interested in. It’s just a nightmare, though, and Bucky awakes after murdering a civilian who happened to witness the violence. Bucky goes to therapy, which would be much better without the INTENSE close up shots. This lays the groundwork for his arc: Bucky has no friends and is trying to make amends in the most awkward, semi-violent, horrific smiling way possible. It’s good.

After giving up Captain America’s shield to the Smithsonian, Sam heads to his hometown in Louisiana, where I become a lot more interested in his story. I love his sister, who needs his help and resents her savior-brother who thinks he can swoop in and take control after she held things together for the five year Snap. It feels really great to focus on a working class black family and how superheroes and missing people have effected their lives: hint, it’s not good.

Bucky meets up with his closest friend, an adorably cranky Japanese man. They bond over obituaries, warming my fanfic-loving heart. The man asks out the cute Japanese-American waitress for Bucky, and Leah accepts. She is an excellent human being who saves their painfully awkward date (“How old are you?” “106.” “Why are you wearing those gloves?” “….Poor circulation.”) with the board game Battleship and beer. Unfortunately, the topic shifts to the old man Bucky was hanging out with, and Leah sympathizes that it is uniquely terrible to not only lose your son, but to not know how he died. Bucky abruptly leaves and heads to the old man’s house…where we see a memorial shrine set up to his son: the civilian who Bucky murdered in his Winter Soldier nightmare. Ouch.

Sam takes his sister to the bank, thinking his Avengers status will help her get a loan so that they can keep their parents’ sweet houseboat. In a devastatingly accurate scene, even a superhero can’t get a loan if he’s black. Even worse, he heads home to watch the news only to see that Captain America’s shield has been passed on to some random who winks at the screen. Sam! You should have kept it!

There is also a whole thing with the Flag Smashers (dumb name) that I do not yet have any interest in. Honestly, I wish this show were just character studies of Sam and Bucky, hanging out with people and getting on with life. And together! I hope their paths cross in the next episode.

Overall, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier lacks the hook that WandaVision had. It feels a lot more traditionally Marvel, which is fine but not fascinating. I’m definitely interested to know what will happen next, and I’m loving Sam breaking out of the token black person role. But I do kind of wish that Sam and Bucky had found themselves in a 1950s sitcom…

March 20, 2021