The part of the show that works best is the exploration of the question "Who is Captain America" through the five main characters. And there are two ways to answer that question: you can answer what he "is" and you can answer what he "means." And Sam, Bucky, Zemo, Karli and Walker all have different answers for both of those. And they're all close in some respects but wrong in other respects.
Zemo, Karli and Walker (and to a degree Sam) all think that Captain America "is" the Super Soldier. They think that he's defined by the serum and the power that it gives him.
They all think he "means" different things. Karli thinks he means Justice at a macro level. Walker thinks something similar but what he really thinks is that he means "duty" or more importantly "power." Zemo thinks that he means "power" in the most authoritarian sense of the word.
All of them are wrong about what he "is" though. Steve's super power wasn't that he was a super solider - that was secondary. Steve's power is that he always knew right from wrong, no matter the circumstances.
Bucky understands this because he knows what it's like to have your ability to tell right from wrong taken away. But Bucky can't articulate this well because of his guilt and grief.
Sam sort of but doesn't really get this. But what the show is building up for us is that Sam has the same super power. He just has to refine his ability to use it. Like, he can use it with Karli but he has a blind spot around his own sister and his responsibilities to her and what they mean. But we feel like he will figure that out.
This is also why the Sharon arc is kind of not working, because she isn't connected to this exploration - at least not yet. It's hard to tell if she's going to be or if this whole Mardripoor / Power Broker arc is more about the genre and bringing in political complexity to play into the spy movie conventions that they like to play with in the Cap series.
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