This series is hard to rate. To neutrally review. As much as I love these two characters, their dynamic and the MCU, this series almost shattered my hopes for what lays ahead.

The cast. I imagine it to be hard for the supporting cast to outshine Smacky especially with the script you've been given. No background story, no character development, literally nothing you can work with to make your (bad) character shine. Even Emily (Sharon Carter) felt a little out of place.

The plot. I wonder why Kevin Feige greenlight this. The writers clearly struggled with the story and to me, not much felt right. I questioned the characters, their actions, and motives which I never did before.

Bottom line: the series gives you so much input on Smacky's personalities. The life after. How they try to move forward and what their personal lives feel like. With that being said, I kind of missed a moment where Sam realizes, the shield actually belongs to Bucky. Why? Well, let's just face it, at the end of Endgame, Bucky sort of pushed Sam to go to Steve. I had the feeling that Bucky, although tired of fighting would've been better off with the shield. For the sake of redemption. Steve knew what Bucky's been through, what terrible things he has done. It would've been such an honor, coming from his best friend, that everything's forgiven and that it's time to shine for him.

Wow, what a great series this could've been. Just the two of them, facing life and it's struggles. But Marvel gave us this instead. A terrible writing, a warmed-up story filmed half-hearted.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but for once, I'm glad it's over and I really hope, they stick to their promise that this was a limited series only.