The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) is a series my wife and I watched on Disney+ a couple months after it came out. The storyline follows The Falcon as a reluctant hero that doesn't want to pick-up where Captain America left-off as a super hero. The Winter Soldier tries to encourage him but as The Falcon delays a new villain with ideas of his own emerges.

This series was created by Malcolm Spellman (Empire) and stars Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), Sebastian Stan (Black Swan), Erin Kellyman (The Green Knight), Daniel Brühl (Alienist) and Emily VanCamp (Revenge).

The storyline for this is entertaining, action packed and worth following. Brühl's character was unpredictable, well written and very well delivered. I didn't love the way Mackie's character was written, but it fit within the plot and Mackie and Stan's chemistry was great making their performances worthwhile. There's some great cameos in this and they do a good job of intermittently injecting other parts of the Marvel universe into this movie. The conclusion to this is excellent and makes the series worth getting through.

Overall this was a good, not great, series that is worth watching whether you're a die hard Marvel fan or not. I would score this a 7/10 and strongly recommend it.