This week on Good Bye to All That, The Pop Break’s Podcasts Editor Alex Marcus is joined byMichael T. Ford III, co-host of the Racial Draft Podcast, to discuss Disney Plus’s The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, Marvel Studios latest event series, starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan as the titular Falcon & The Winter Soldier as they deal with the fall out of a post-blip world and come to terms with the mantle of Captain America now that Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers is no longer a part of the franchise after 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.
Show Topics discussed include:
-How covering the series weekly on TWO podcasts impacted Michael’s experience with the series
-How the series’ various sympathetic antiheroes impacted the telling of Sam’s story
-What went wrong with the Flag Smashers
-If the Power Broker mattered
-The ways in which Karli and Walker’s arc’s parallel each other
-The incredible performance and transgressive nature of Carly Lumbly’s Isiah Bradley
-The role of Wakanda and Zemo on the series
-If Bucky deserved to be the co-lead of this series and if he could ever be a solo lead
-What’s next for Sam Wilson’s Captain America, including thoughts on the new costume!
You can follow host Alex Marcus on Twitter and Letterboxd and check out his film podcast Cinema Joes.
