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Agent Carter Recap – Episode 5: The Iron Ceiling

by Chris Fox
February 4, 2015

This weeks episode was packed. Lots of action. The return of the Howling Commandos. Revealed backstory for both Thomson and Dottie (and, by extension, Agent Romanov in the present day). Sousa discovers what Peggy’s been up to, or thinks he has anyway.

The episode begins in 1937 where we see a group of young girls being groomed for the Black Widow Program. While that name didn’t get used this week, Marvel did release an interview with the shows producers about how they came up with the idea. The implication is that this is where Dottie was raised, but we don’t get confirmation until the end of the episode.

Back in 1946, Dottie and Peggy are out in the diner together when Dottie manages to secretly get Peggy’s room keys out of her purse. On the way to the SSR, Jarvis comes up to Peggy to pled for her to rejoin him in helping Stark prove his innocence, but, of course, she’s still understandably mad at them both. Jarvis does manage to get into her head the idea that, despite his failings, Stark is a good man and Peggy knows it.

The SSR office is in complete chaos as the typewriter has typed out a coded message that no one can break. No one except Peggy. She swoops in, breaks the code without breaking a sweat, showing up all of the men in the room with her. She then pleads with Dooley to let her go on the mission to Russia, based on her ability to break the code and her familiarity with the terrain. But it isn’t until she calls in the 107th (a.k.a. the Howling Commandos) that she is allowed to join the team.

Peggy has to change for the mission in the men’s locker room because there isn’t a women’s. This leads to some witty banter between her and Thomson but it also leads Sousa to the discovery that Peggy has a couple of bullet wounds on her shoulder. More on that later.Read More »Agent Carter Recap – Episode 5: The Iron Ceiling

Interview with Agent Carter’s SSR Cohorts

by John Frost
February 4, 2015February 3, 2015

Marvel online editor Marc Strom interviews Chad Michael Murray (Agent Thompson) and Enver Gjokaj (Agent Sousa) from Marvel’s Agent Carter. The supporting actors each dive deeper into their characters providing more insight into the series. During the clip, the actors discuss how the post-war setting… Read More »Interview with Agent Carter’s SSR Cohorts

Marvel’s Agent’s of S.H.I.E.L.D. Mid-Season Return Preview

by John Frost
February 2, 2015February 2, 2015

When last we left our team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents they were encountering strange things in the alien city in Puerto Rico, trying to beat Hydra to the punch. As a result, we’ve seen our first “inhuman” and that will change our favorite band of agents… Read More »Marvel’s Agent’s of S.H.I.E.L.D. Mid-Season Return Preview

Marvel’s Agent Carter Preview – Episode 5

by John Frost
February 2, 2015February 2, 2015

Agent Peggy Carter is surrounded by danger in the next episode of Marvel’s Agent Carter. She goes on her first top secret mission for SSR and reunites with her old team “The Howling Commandos” including Dum Dum Dugan (Neal McDonough).

Along they way they learn some shocking truths about Leviathan and a potentially deadly encounter with the Black Widow training grounds. Additionally, back in New York, it appears a Black Widow assassin has chosen Carter as her next victim.

Here’s a preview

Here’s a clip from the episode where we meet the Howling Commandos:

Agent Carter Episode 4 Recap: The Blitzkrieg Button

by Chris Fox
January 29, 2015

We’ve made to the half way point of the series. Interestingly, the main objective of the series, the search for Howard Stark’s stolen technology, is over. Which begs the question, what do the last four episodes have in store?

This week’s episode was once again, light on action, but still delivered two major reveals. The episode begins with the return of Howard Stark, who is still on the run. His normal hiding spots are now under surveillance so Peggy ends up letting him hide out in her apartment, you know, the one that doesn’t allow men inside in the building. This week we definitely got to see the more negative side of Stark’s personality, from the way he seduced all of the ladies on Peggy’s hall, to how he chose to lie to her about her mission.

Stark tells Peggy that one of his inventions, the Blitzkrieg Button, has been turned on and, if activated, will cause the entire city of New York to black out. Of course, he’s the only one who can disarm it so he needs her to bring it to him.

In the midst of this, we are introduced to Mr. Mink, who attempts to capture Peggy and Jarvis. The writers clearly wanted us to think that he was going to be the big villain of the piece, which makes what happens later more shocking.Read More »Agent Carter Episode 4 Recap: The Blitzkrieg Button

Marvel’s Agent Carter Returns with Episode 4

by John Frost
January 27, 2015January 26, 2015

After a few weeks off, Agent Peggy Carter is back with a new episode on ABC tonight at 9pm. In Marvel’s Agent Carter Episode 4, the intrigue deepens as the plot-line moves forward. Howard Stark returns and more in “The Blitzkrieg Button.”

Here’s a sneak peek with Peggy sneaking up on a shakedown:

Plot Synposis below:Read More »Marvel’s Agent Carter Returns with Episode 4

Agent Carter Recap: Episode 3 – Time and Tide

by Chris Fox
January 14, 2015January 14, 2015

What this week’s episode lacks in action, it makes up for in character. After an announcement made by Peggy’s new landlady, she gets the idea to investigate the hole beneath Howard Stark’s safe to see if she can figure out how our mystery man broke in.

Just before she and Jarvis plan to make their way down to the safe, Thompson and Souza show up at the door. They’re investigating Stark’s license plate that was found in the wreckage of last week’s implosion. Because Stark is on the run, Jarvis is the number one suspect and is brought into SSR custody for interrogation.

Jarvis lies, claiming that Stark’s car was stolen that he reported it a few days earlier. In the SSR office, Peggy takes a figurative bullet for Javis when she claims that she lost the stolen car report, allowing Jarvis to go free putting her in hot water with her superiors.

However, it is revealed during the interrogation that, during the war, Jarvis was charged with treason and dishonorably discharged.

Back at her apartment, Peggy is getting ready to meet Jarvis when Angie shows up at the door. She tries to turn Angie away politely, but Angie is hurt non-the-less. As they leave her apartment, their landlady walks by and introduces them to her new tenant: Dorothy “Dottie” Underhill. Some people in the fan community think that Angie shouldn’t be trusted, but my money is on Dottie. This is the only scene that she’s in (clearly anyway) and I don’t think they introduced her for no reason. There’s more to her story.Read More »Agent Carter Recap: Episode 3 – Time and Tide

Stan Lee to cameo in Marvel’s Agent Carter

by John Frost
January 13, 2015January 13, 2015

For Stan Lee’s next Marvel cameo he will travel back in time to 1946 an appear in Agent Carter. He gets around quite a lot for a 92 year old man. But it must be great seeing the characters you had a hand in creating continue living on in media beyond paper and ink.

Here are a couple shots taken of Lee on set.