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Why We Won’t Have a Review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Everything You Need to Know About The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
For The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Disney has deemed that reviews cannot be published before Thursday (morning in the US and night in India). The first reviews for the new Marvel series will hence start arriving at 9:30pm IST / 9am PT / 4pm GMT. Plenty of reviewers will stick to this deadline and people who want to get a peek at how The Falcon and the Winter Soldier starts off will no doubt find that helpful. But my review will only be published once I’ve seen all six episodes. I did ask Disney for more episodes but this wasn’t possible — and although a reason wasn’t given, Marvel’s concerns about spoilers are well known.
That’s why, for instance, with WandaVision, critics had access to the first three episodes. The fourth episode had a big reveal that Disney no doubt wanted to make sure went unspoiled for the most enthusiastic fans.
Not getting all the episodes is in fact quite common for many series. The bigger the show, the fewer the episodes. With WandaVision, critics saw three out of the total nine. That’s 30 percent, which is much better, relatively. With Netflix’s The Witcher, we had access to the first five episodes, out of the total eight. That’s over 60 percent, even better. It can always be worse. Game of Thrones didn’t do screeners — the industry term for film or TV offered under early access — at all in later seasons (their reason was also spoilers and piracy).
With The Mandalorian season 2, Disney also didn’t bother previewing the series at all. You can do that when you’ve Baby Yoda.