In the first episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter<\/i>, I missed this. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hello, Los Angeles! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to return to the world of\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0and get a huge change of scenery. The move to Los Angeles is already a brilliant move, and I love that the show feels so sunny, despite that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a seedy undercurrent to this season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story. Indeed, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Lady in the Lake\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is full of contradictions and irony. In the scorching L.A. heat (which is dry, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have you know!), a lake freezes. Sousa asks for more men and gets Peggy instead. Peggy finally comes around to her affections for Sousa, only to discover that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now taken.<\/p>\n
And amidst this all, we get a glimpse of the greater story for season two, concerning the collision of Isodyne Energy, Calvin Chadwick, Mrs. Frost, and Jason Wilkes. I AM INTRIGUED, LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S TALK ABOUT IT.<\/p>\n
Changing Tides<\/b><\/p>\n
I love that this show is so explicitly taking place in a post-World War II world. The SSR doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t serve the same purpose anymore without the war, and we see that manifest in Jack Thomspon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a jerk to me, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 moved a level down the Jerk Chart or something. Peggy was right to call him out for his inadequacy issues because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why he sent her away to Los Angeles. He wanted the credit for Dottie Underwood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capture, and that seemed to be the easiest way to do that.<\/p>\n
It was pretty funny watching him think he could actually reach Dottie without Peggy, but then she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s completely taken away from him, and his mentor warns him that the SSR probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist in the near future. I admit it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the most interesting part of this episode, but I\u00c2\u00a0am<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0curious about how Jack will pursue his own end.<\/p>\n
The Lady in the Lake<\/b><\/p>\n
I have a thing for accurate and believable settings, and the show does\u00c2\u00a0wonders<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0in this episode by setting numerous scenes in EXACTLY THE SAME PLACES THEY NAME. But let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s put aside this fairly specific thing that I enjoy in order to talk about the move of this show from New York City to Los Angeles. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the obvious change which mostly comes in lighting and color palettes. I still consider\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0to be a sci-fi noir show, so I\u00c2\u00a0also<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0have a thing for sunny noirs. IT IS EVERYTHING I WANT ALL PACKED INTO ONE EPISODE.<\/p>\n
Yet it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the way this change affects these characters that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most compelling to me. Everyone is in a new location, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still getting adjusted, Peggy more so than Sousa. That awkwardness spreads through the script, and it manifests in scenes where Sousa and Peggy are reunited, when men turn to stare at Peggy when she enters the new SSR building, when Detective Henry is first introduced to Peggy. Are these characters starting over, or will they be able to build off their growth in the first season?<\/p>\n
We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to see. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot that happens here that sets up future plots, like the tanking of the Peggy\/Sousa relationship (I AM VERY SAD), or the possibility of the Peggy\/Jason relationship (PLEASE DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T LET HIM BE A VILLAIN, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122LL BE SO MAD), or the shutting of the SSR. I imagine that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a huge connection between Dottie and what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening in Los Angeles. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite tell who is actually in charge of anything here; I expected it was Calvin Chadwick, but Mrs. Frost is\u00c2\u00a0clearly<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0in power over him. Maybe she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the antagonist??? What of Jason Wilkes? Was his whole bumbling scientist an act so he could get closer to Peggy? I HAD SO MUCH HOPE, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL.<\/p>\n
The one thing that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been dodging around is the plot itself. I find myself more interested in the characters and the setting than the murder mystery itself, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want that to come off as a harsh criticism of this. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a solid story here, though it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left deliberately unsolved for the most part because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part of something bigger. We know that Jane Scott was killed because Mrs. Frost caught her husband cheating on her with Ms. Scott\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 right? And that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0something<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0in Isodyne Energy that caused people to freeze, and it might be related to that weird ball of\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 stuff? Okay, so this episode is a fun premiere, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a set-up. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s much more to come!<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lots of Jarvis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife because SHE IS NOW MY FAVORITE, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M SO GLAD THEY ACTUALLY INTRODUCED HER. SHE KNITTED A GARTER HOLSTER FOR PEGGY.\u00c2\u00a0THAT IS TRUE LOVE<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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