In its second episode, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier unpacks MAGA culture and the refugee crisis, establishing what was teased in episode one — Marvel Studios’ second streaming show is just as fascinated with geopolitics as it is with superheroics.
John Walker, the ‘new’ Captain America gets a large chunk of screen time, and even though he comes across as a jock opportunist, he’s actually just another cog in America’s militaristic machine.