Notice how many online reviews just complain about anything "woke" when they clearly have nothing substantial to say about the subject of their "review". It takes a lot less effort to repeat Fox News buzzwords than it is to see whose "agenda" one's a part of.

If you didn't read the old "What If..." comics, they were re-telling s of major Marvel Comics events with a twist, told within a single issue, so they were always short takes, one-and-done. So, inevitably, the flow is always a bit too rushed to take seriously or believe there's any lasting impact.

That's an inherent flaw of the premise, that results in the show being too quippy and playing like a montage of action freeze-frames.

With those things in mind, the animation style is gorgeous. I first recall seeing it in The Iron Giant, looking like hand-drawn animation with the volume and moving perspective of 3D computer animation, with the added detail of surface textures that retain their detail as objects move through space.... Except now, 22 years later, all the techniques are refined and pushed to the limits of modern technology, with no shortage of lens flares. Character likenesses are spot-on and practically any feature is given enough detail to move with facial expressions, physical activity, body language, and even the natural folds of costume fabric and skin. It's all done with an expressive colour palette, like any still frame could just as easily be an album cover or movie poster.

If seeing Agent Carter as a super soldier has you sounding the alarm because it seems "radical left to you, isn't that really what you tuned in for?