Agent Carter is an American television series based on Marvel Comics character Peggy Carter. It is being produced by Marvel Television and airs on the ABC network, and has been set in theMarvel Cinematic Universe. It occurs after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger and before Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter with Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Carter. Reapercreators Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas will be writing and executive producing the show as well as serving as the showrunners for the series.[1] On May 8, 2014 Marvel Entertainment announced that ABC has picked up Agent Carter to series. The series premiered in January 2015. On May 15, 2014, Hayley Atwell stated that the show would run for 8 episodes.[2] On January 6, 2015, the series debuted by showing its first two episodes on the same night.
There’s a good reason why Hayley Atwell’s performance tends to dominate discussions about Agent Carter. She’s so reliably magnetic that she both smooths over the narrative’s rough patches and reinforces its stronger bits. Sometimes, she’ll even overwhelm the material.
But there’s an unfortunate side effect to Atwell’s consistently great performance: It can make you overlook the terrific work done by Agent Carter’s supporting players. This dual serving of episodes is a welcome reminder that the show’s roster goes deep, as character after character steps up while Peggy is sidelined due to stomach injury. (Well, kind of. Watching “Life of the Party” and “Monsters” back to back highlights how superficially Agent Carter treats Peggy’s stomach wound; it drives the entire story in the former episode, and is basically ignored by the latter.)
And refreshingly, most of the characters who get a chance to shine are women. “Life of the Party” begins with Wilkes theorizing that a sample of Whitney Frost’s blood might permanently bring him back to corporeal form. Peggy suggests that a big political fund-raiser for Frost’s husband, Calvin Chadwick, will be the ideal chance to snag a vial of blood. But for once, Peggy is wrong for the job. Even if she didn’t have a bloody hole in her stomach, Frost would recognize her. Unfortunately, there’s no obvious backup agent — the S.S.R. is compromised, and the mission is too dangerous for a civilian like Jarvis.
