She’s always fighting off two sets of antagonists, the real bad guys and her own S.S.R. This introduces two elements that make Agent Carter good TV, whether you’re into geeky comic book stuff or not: the show’s clever take on feminized spy gear, and the fact that Peggy never has only one adversary.
Except they can’t know she’s working on behalf of Stark. She slips on a bit of knock-out lipstick, uses her darling ladies’ watch to break into the safe, and is just about ready to bounce on out of there when her coworkers arrive at the club to investigate the same lead she just beat them to. Luckily for us, “Ladies’ Things” means dressing up like Veronica Lake and infiltrating a bangin’ nightclub to seduce the club owner out of the implosive weaponized nitramene he was planning to fence. In order to fit double agenting into her busy schedule, Peggy begs off work due to “ladies’ things,” which her boss, Director Dooley ( Boardwalk Empire’s Shea Whigham), is only too happy to oblige. Colleen’s just been laid off from her Rosie The Riveter industrial job, while Peggy works for “The Phone Company.” Which I should mention was an actual thing: my grandparents still refer to “The Phone Company” when they mean Verizon. (Seriously, though, the choice to use 1940s pop music absolutely works here.) An encounter with her roommate Colleen and a murphy bed sets up Peggy’s cover story and a bit of the landscape of postwar America. This is why.Īfter flashing back to the worst day of Peggy’s life, we’re treated to a montage of Agent Carter getting ready for work in 1946 New York, to the rhythm of some sick period beats. Carter might be a superhero, but she doesn’t feel like one.
AGENT CARTER LADIES THINGS CRACK MOVIE
We open with a flashback to probably the saddest scene in Marvel movie history, Steve Rogers’s plane going down as his collaborator and love interest Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) listens in on the radio, helpless.
So let’s muddle through obscure villain names and weird imploding MacGuffins together! Let alone having a sense of how Cap’s world is going to rub up against the world of Agent Carter. I should pause the recap right here to just warn the serious Marvel geeks out there: I read Marvel comics, and I have since middle school, but I didn’t really get into Captain America until the movies and don’t necessarily know the finer points of the lore of his particular universe.
0 kommentar(er)
