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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series is ultimately uncertain of what it wants to say about its politics and the new Captain America, Sam Wilson.

This review contains spoilers for Invincible Season 1, Episode 7, titled "We Need to Talk," which is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. Amazon Prime’s Invincible has been uneven at times, but its strengths outweigh its weaknesses. This has been true for individual episodes, like the fifth (“That Actually Hurt”), whose storytelling and character work eclipse last week’s sixth entry (“You Look Kinda Dead”). In that vein, this week’s seventh […]

This review contains spoilers for Invincible Season 1, Episode 4, titled "Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out," which is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. The fourth episode of Invincible, titled “Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out,” makes it feel like an entirely different show from last week’s three-episode premiere. With all its story pieces now in play, the animated superhero saga finds room to breathe, to have […]

Full spoilers follow for WandaVision. Created by Jac Schaeffer, Marvel Studios’ first streaming show places B-tier Avengers Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) in a seemingly idyllic suburban town, with six of its nine episodes mimicking different eras of American sitcoms. At its core is a tale about Wanda’s grief — Vision was killed in Avengers: Infinity War and remained dead through Avengers: Endgame — and the show […]