The MCU is too bizarre to be grounded. The movies are fast paced, fun and not something to dwell on. Dont think about Thanos's weird plan, just roll with it. The Netflix marvel shows just barely acknowledged the events of the MCU even happened, and were successful for it. Falcon tries to do a deep dive on the blip and unblip, and its just territory not meant to be explored. They tried to frame it as a parallel to Israel-palestine, or syrian refugee resettlement, and then clumsily brought in issues of being black in america...but the infinity saga is really not built to meaningfully tackle these issues.

The writing is really poor in the first few episodes as well, and that really doesnt help. Conversations seem to go nowhere. Falcon offers a pardon to a character for help, the character takes offense to using livelihood as a negotiating tactic. Falcon then relents and offers to try to get the pardon anyway, then the character says she doesnt want charity and will help in exchange. What was even the point?! There are so many examples of these small, pointless conversations that seem to waste time, early on. Individually theyre not that bad, but collectively it makes following the story pretty tiresome.

The action set pieces are a cut above almost any TV series; especially when an aerial falcon is involved. I think that saves it from being too boring to watch, but its ultimately super forgettable.