In less than two days, WandaVision will come to an end, but the series has certainly gotten the small-screen side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe off on the right foot and has set the stage for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier later this month. The new series will follow Sam Wilson/Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) as they team up for a global adventure that tests their abilities — and their patience.
As these shows definitely aren't cheap to produce (The Falcon and the Winter Solider reportedly cost $150 million in total), they will vary in terms of episode and season length. Although WandaVision will feature nine episodes, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will consist of just six episodes, which Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said they "landed on as the best way to tell our story." In regards to whether or not we'll see a second season of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie confirmed in a recent Variety feature that "there have been no discussions of a second season" at this time. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that there won't be a second season of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier somewhere down the line, but as it stands now, you should probably savour those six episodes.
When it comes to second (or third) seasons of the Marvel shows on Disney+, Kevin Feige told Variety last month said that they're "developing all of these shows the way we’re developing our our movies. In other words, when we start with a movie, we hope there’s a part two, we hope there’s a part three. But we aren’t factoring that into the part one. We are trying to make something that people enjoy enough to want to revisit enough that they want to see the story continued. So that is the way we’re proceeding on television as well." Feige added that "some of the shows that I mentioned that we were about to start filming, we are keeping in mind a structure that would lead into a Season 2, a Season 3, in a more direct way than, say, a show like, like ‘WandaVision,’ which clearly goes into into a feature." As Feige mentioned, WandaVision will lead into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and although further seasons of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier seem unlikely at the moment, I've no doubt that we'll see Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes again.
WandaVision will conclude this Friday, with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier debuting on March 19th.