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Finished catching up to the MCU today so here are some thoughts about the post-Endgame stuff:

Wandavision: Neat idea from a meta standpoint. Liked seeing the sitcom permutation through the decades. The "real world" scenes are pretty awful though: Randall Park is good, but everything else was super dry/cliche. Last battle was Suicide Squad level bad. Kind of got me hyped for Dr. Strange 2, so it did its job I guess. Also, goddamn Elizabeth Olsen is hot. 6/10

F&WS: This was honestly pretty bad. Too preachy and too padded out. There's no reason this should be 6 hours:cut it down to 2.5 hours and call it Cap 4. The Sharon twist is really forced/unearned/out of nowhere. Falcap's costume needs work. Bucky/Sebastian Stan was the highlight for sure. 4/10

Loki: And now, the polar opposite problem that F&WS had. This show needs to be longer and more fleshed out. There's honestly two six-episode seasons worth of content crammed into this. As people have said already, Loki's sort of "face turn" needs time to really develop for it to actually work, and the premise itself would benefit from a few "monster of the week" type episodes. The actors are all pretty good here, Hiddleston and Wilson obviously being standouts. Really nice aesthetic. Clearly the most "high concept" Marvel's ever gotten, even if this means it's derivative somewhat of Dr. Who/R&M. 8/10

Black Widow: Starts off with promise, and then it remembers it's a Marvel movie. There is such a ridiculous tonal shift in the last act here from spy thriller to superhero fluff. It honestly seems insulting. The decision to make the main villain basically a human trafficker is interesting, because the whole "women as resources" thing is a real issue facing the world today, but they throw that out the window by giving him a floating fortress and generic evil dude. Meanwhile, the side characters start out as morally grey antagonists and by the end we're supposed to see them as Bob's Burgers characters basically. The Red Guardian is an abusive, cruel, failed Captain America and Rachel Weisz's character is a mad scientist who tortures a pig in front of us, and half an hour later we're supposed to view them as a happy yet dysfunctional family. Doesn't work. Fun fight scenes though. It's not the worst Marvel film, but it's at the low end of the mediocre tier. 5/10.

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