Felt like this show just got sloppier and sloppier as it went along. Almost had the opposite problem of WandaVision where instead of being too repetitive and flirty with the audience this just wanted to throw every single thing at the wall. Glad people seemed to like it so much but to me this felt like three seasons of a TV show crammed into one - and the fight choreography was just lame, IMO. I loved the Morgenthau actress but her character was so weird and underutilized, she may as well have been a bad dream Sam had. Same with Zemo, at the end of the day his whole thing boiled down to a couple internet memes and contrived escapes, right?

Really dig the new Cap though, his suit could still use a little work but he can pretty clearly cover a lot of Cap AND Iron Man ground in future fights with a little BP sprinkled in. Veep seems like a perfect spike of energy for this franchise, Bucky and US Agent are in interesting places (though is Agent comic relief now??) and, uh, Miss Carter’s got all the poison gas she needs now, I guess?

I just can’t shake the thought I had when they were loading up those prisoner vans - for all the cinematic heft and money Marvel put behind Phase 3, how does this show feel like something from the USA or TNT drama block half the time? As snack food goes it was cool this had some substance (especially compared to other MCU films) but so far Marvel feels back in Phase 1 or 2 when it comes to figuring out how to make their thing work on TV.

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