The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s “The Star-Spangled Man”

We’ve got four guys in this episode who have been Captain America in the comics — including the two title characters and John Walker as expected, but also Isaiah Bradley from the brilliant 2003 miniseries Truth: Red, White, and Black. My review of the second episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

An excerpt:

Wyatt Russell also does great work, playing the humble aw-shucks-I’m-just-doin’-my-job soldier who’s trying to do the right thing. He’s doing this because he was ordered to, and he considers it a great honor. Russell strikes a very good balance here, as he’s not really a bad guy, but it’s also hard to warm to him, at least in part because his persona as Captain America is so obviously manufactured. He’s trying to fill Rogers’ shoes, but he hasn’t really done anything to earn the accolades he’s been getting. The people in the football stadium are cheering the uniform and the shield, not the person wearing it. Heck, Rogers himself didn’t get taken seriously as a soldier until he rescued a bunch of prisoners from Hydra’s clutches.