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chuckroFollowing the apparent death of Captain America, we follow post-war Peggy Carter as she battles sexism and attempts to retrieve a bunch of Howard Stark's inventions that have been stolen and have been appearing on the black market. With the help of Stark's butler Jarvis, she has to outwit both the crooks and her own bosses.
As I've noted elsewhere, Hayley Atwell is very good at what she does, and though the “anachronistic period piece” aspect is amusing and I love helping Enver Gjokaj get a paycheck, she's the real draw here. Peggy is both a badass fighter and an amazing undercover operative. The plot kinda forces her to be dumb on Howard’s behalf so that there is, in fact, a plot; but I suppose I can deal with that.
Peggy's character arc is somewhere between “learning to trust people following Steve's death” and “learning to make friends for the first time.” The fact that the girls at the Griffin get some of the better lines and side plots and aren’t treated stupidly helps to humanize Peggy. At work, she’s twice as good and half as recognized as the men; but with the girls she’s the awkward and vulnerable one who doesn’t really know what she’s doing.
I’m amused by their ability to do tie-ins to the Marvel movies—the continuity they’ve managed over two dozen movies and multiple seasons of multiple TV shows (on multiple networks!) is really impressive.
Overall: This was fun. I’ll probably watch the other season at some point. I think my only issue is, well, I like heroes with superpowers. That’s just me.
As I've noted elsewhere, Hayley Atwell is very good at what she does, and though the “anachronistic period piece” aspect is amusing and I love helping Enver Gjokaj get a paycheck, she's the real draw here. Peggy is both a badass fighter and an amazing undercover operative. The plot kinda forces her to be dumb on Howard’s behalf so that there is, in fact, a plot; but I suppose I can deal with that.
Peggy's character arc is somewhere between “learning to trust people following Steve's death” and “learning to make friends for the first time.” The fact that the girls at the Griffin get some of the better lines and side plots and aren’t treated stupidly helps to humanize Peggy. At work, she’s twice as good and half as recognized as the men; but with the girls she’s the awkward and vulnerable one who doesn’t really know what she’s doing.
I’m amused by their ability to do tie-ins to the Marvel movies—the continuity they’ve managed over two dozen movies and multiple seasons of multiple TV shows (on multiple networks!) is really impressive.
Overall: This was fun. I’ll probably watch the other season at some point. I think my only issue is, well, I like heroes with superpowers. That’s just me.
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Date: 2017-07-29 03:15 pm (UTC)I may get around to the second season sometime, but it's not high on the list. We live in a time when I have five other superhero TV shows in my queue ahead of it.