“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” thoughts, Season One, Episode Two: “The Star-Spangled Man”

There’s something so dreary about taking Redwing, the comic-book Falcon’s telepathic, bright-red bird sidekick, and turning him into a drone. An explicitly military one at that, property of the United States government, as this episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (“The Star Spangled-Man”) dutifully informs us. When one of those sinister border-hating Flag-Smashers knocks the damn thing from the sky, it felt like a mercy killing on behalf of imagination.

Can’t say I’m enjoying The Falcon and the Winter Soldier very much! I reviewed this week’s episode for Decider.

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