cartergraphy

With Agents of SHIELD taking a much-needed winter break, Marvel’s other spy adventure series, Agent Carter, has been back for a two-month engagement, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Peggy. Our AoS recappers Agent Ziah Grace and Agent Chris Haley have been on hand to review the highs and lows as Agent Carter visited Los Angeles to bring down new foes. But all good things come to an end. This week, it’s the season finale, and all of the action, adventure, intrigue, romance, mystery, and mad science come together for one epic conclusion! “Hollywood Ending” was directed by Jennifer Getzinger from a script by Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters, and Chris Dingess.

With Agents of SHIELD taking a much-needed winter break, Marvel’s other spy adventure series, Agent Carter, is back for a two-month engagement, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Peggy. Our AoS recappers Agent Ziah Grace and Agent Chris Haley are on hand to review the highs and lows as Agent Carter relocates to Los Angeles to bring down new foes. This week gave us another Two-for-Tuesday double header of our favorite SSR agent as we speed ever closer to the return of that other show. Action, suspense, drama, spaghetti, and an honest-to-goodness song and dance number! This show is the ever-loving best. Episode 8, “The Edge of Mystery” was directed by Metin Hüseyin from a script by Brant Englestein. Episode 9, “A Little Song and Dance” was directed by Jennifer Getzinger and written by Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters, and Chris Dingess.

With Agents of SHIELD taking a much-needed winter break, Marvel’s other spy adventure series, Agent Carter, is back for a two-month engagement, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Peggy. Our AoS recappers Agent Ziah Grace and Agent Chris Haley are on hand to review the highs and lows as Agent Carter relocates to Los Angeles to bring down new foes. This week we were treated to another double dose of Agent Carter, as old school Black Widow agent Dottie returns to action, and Whitney Frost plots total domination. “Life of the Party” was directed by Craig Zisk from a script by Eric Pearson, and “Monsters” was directed by Metin Hüseyin from a script by Brandon Easton.

With Agents of SHIELD taking a much-needed winter break, Marvel’s other spy adventure series, Agent Carter, is back for a two-month engagement, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Peggy. Our AoS recappers Agent Ziah Grace and Agent Chris Haley are on hand to review the highs and lows as Agent Carter relocates to Los Angeles to bring down new foes. This week Peggy and the gang have to plan not one, not two, but three heists, get some new help in the field, and deal with a serious construction related injury. Also, there’s a proposal! “The Atomic Job” was directed by Craig Zisk and written by Lindsey Allen.

With Agents of SHIELD taking a much-needed winter break, Marvel’s other spy adventure series, Agent Carter, is back for a two-month engagement, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Peggy. Our AoS recappers Agent Ziah Grace and Agent Chris Haley are on hand to review the highs and lows as Agent Carter relocates to Los Angeles to bring down new foes. Felonies, forced confessions, fading scientists, and flashbacks are all afoot this week! 'Smoke & Mirrors' was directed by David Platt and written by Sue Chung.

With Agents of SHIELD taking a much-needed winter break, Marvel’s other spy adventure series, Agent Carter, is back for a two-month engagement, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Peggy. Our AoS recappers Agent Ziah Grace and Agent Chris Haley are on hand to review the highs and lows as Agent Carter relocates to Los Angeles to bring down new foes. Intrigue, suspense, suspicion, attempted assassination, and science are all afoot this week! “Better Angels” was directed by David Platt and written by Jose Molina.

With Agents of SHIELD taking a much-needed winter break, Marvel's other spy adventure series, Agent Carter, is back for a two-month engagement, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Peggy. Our AoS recappers Agent Ziah Grace and Agent Chris Haley are on hand to review the highs and lows as Agent Carter relocates to Los Angeles to bring down new foes. We were treated to two episodes of Agent Carter this week to kick off the second season; “The Lady in the Lake” was directed by Lawrence Trilling from a script by Brant Engelstein, and “A View in the Dark” was directed by Trilling from a script by Eric Pearson and Lindsey Allen.

The end has come upon us. The eighth and final episode of Agent Carter has aired, and a show that was perhaps too beautiful for this world may have seen its last over-the-shoulder goon-toss with a finale that brought Peggy's war against Leviathan to an at times thrilling, and at times perhaps too-familiar conclusion --- featuring Dottie, Faustus, Jarvis, Howard, and all the gang. (Except Dooley. Sorry, Dooley.) Episode 8, 'Valediction,' was directed by Christopher Misiano and written by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters. Was it a fitting end to the show, and is it really the end?

In last week's recap of Agent Carter I posited that this penultimate episode would see the cast largely confined to the SSR offices, which seems rather less interesting than seeing a rogue Peggy kicking ass at-large on the streets of 1940s New York City. And lo, the prophecy came to pass, with Peggy almost entirely sidelined in her own show, and no-one really stepping up to fill the void. As a result, episode 7, "Snafu," directed by Vincent Misiano and written by Chris Dingess, was a bit of a disappointment --- though it did offer some top quality Dottie (Bridget Regan), an actual super-villain, and a very welcome character development for Chief Dooley (Shea Whigham).

Agent Carter heads towards its end game with its sixth episode, 'A Sin To Err', directed by Stephen Williams and written by Lindsey Allen. The sad news is that it may be a permanent end, as the show hasn't been delivering ratings that would guarantee a second season -- but I'm not ready to rule it out. I'm hoping DVR numbers will save it. The good news is, with a tight eight episodes, the show is clearly structured as a self-contained story, and assuming a strong ending, this one season will endure as a solid installment in the Marvel canon. I think the Agent Carter model is a much stronger one for future Marvel TV shows on ABC -- the Netflix model on network, in essence -- than the meandering anticlimactic flab of Agents of SHIELD. Which is a show I don't want to have to think about yet. So let's talk about Agent Carter!