Episode 41: Bird Man and Regretful Cyborg Grandpa (w/ Clif Ganyard & Emily Fecteau)

Serious Fun returns yet again with another group dissection session for a Marvel Disney+ streaming show! This time we're breaking down "Falcon and The Winter Soldier" with Serious Fun production assistant Emily Fecteau and, back by popular demand, it's UWGB History professor and Captain America superfan Dr. Clif Ganyard! Join us as we try to put the series into proper historical and canonical context, explore its intriguing character developments, and challenge whether it is equipped to handle its weighty themes of nationalism, legacy, and racial injustice, all while speculating on what it all means and where it's going. Bryan also marks out for the Dora Milaje, as we all should. Download it now!

SHOW NOTES:

We are indebted to some of the excellent writing on this show, particularly that of Charles Pulliam-Moore and Richard L. Newby.

Read a great piece on the show from Pulliam-Moore here: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldiers-head-writer-tries-to-1846772211

And another, excellent take from Newby here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-finales-moment-of-revolution

A quick synopsis of the excellent "Truth: Red, White, and Black" can be found here: https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-marvel-rundown-truth-red-white-and-black/

The interview we refer to at the beginning can be found here: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldiers-director-breaks-down-1846785006