In the sixth episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter<\/i>, this is a great example of everything escalating very quickly. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well,\u00c2\u00a0shit<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Aside from one bizarre moment, I am of the mind that this is the strongest entry this season. (Thus far!) It would be great if I was proven wrong and each episode after this was better than the last, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a tall order. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Life of the Party\u00e2\u20ac\u009d combines the greater mythology into some crushing emotional moments, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also paced\u00c2\u00a0perfectly<\/i>. As you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see in the video, this episode breezed by for me, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to explain why.<\/p>\n
Logistics<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a big fan of continuity done right, and the writers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t magically heal Peggy so that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back in the action for this episode. No, she suffered a\u00c2\u00a0brutal<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0injury in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Atomic Job,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and this shows us the ramifications of that. Peggy can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run around, and she can barely walk for that matter. The show finds a neat way to let Peggy understand how Sousa experiences field work. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the same as a permanent disability, obviously, but the circumstance allows Peggy a chance at a kind of empathy that she otherwise would not have had. At the same time, it allows the show to put Jarvis and Dottie (!!!!!) at the center of the action instead. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so goddamn satisfying because WHO WOULD HAVE EVER THOUGHT THEY\u00e2\u20ac\u2122D BE TOGETHER.<\/p>\n
Fuck it, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk about Dottie.<\/p>\n
DOTTIE UNDERWOOD IS BETTER THAN EVERYONE<\/b><\/p>\n
I just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Bridget Regan is a gift to us all. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t handle her. She is so electric on the screen, and watching her feels like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m seeing something I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. The script plays up her chemistry with Peggy, but also allows for tension and humor to exist side-by-side. We never know what Dottie is going to do, and once she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at Chadwick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campaign party, the unknown drives the suspense even higher. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unattached to anyone or any organization, and thus, she becomes a wild card, a trickster set loose in an environment that is\u00c2\u00a0perfect\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>for her but a disaster for literally everyone else.<\/p>\n
I could not get enough of her.<\/p>\n
Jack Thompson<\/b><\/p>\n
There aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t many flaws in this episode. I thought that one weird sequence where Peggy and Jarvis mimed a conversation in front of Dottie was tonally a mess, yet another example of the show thinking\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0needs wacky humor. But the only other sore spot I saw here was in Jack, who feels very aimless as a character. He knows he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being lied to and used, yet he still keeps talking about being the perfect errand boy for Vernon Masters and the government. Perhaps he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s confused about what he should do, but the writers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really convey that so much as having him drift from scene to scene without any concrete portrayal of this struggle. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as an antagonistic force to provide tension for Dottie and Jarvis, but he never feels significant enough to be an antagonist, either.<\/p>\n
Whitney Ford<\/b><\/p>\n
Part of that is because Whitney is honestly one of the best antagonists\u00c2\u00a0period<\/i>. Not just for this show! The writers have constructed a complicated character who can be sympathetic for brief flashes of time, but who has transformed so much because of Zero Matter that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s closer to being a monster. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but feel sorry for her after she realized her husband had betrayed her, and Wynn Everett absolutely kills it in that sequence. At the same time, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out of control, consumed by the power that Zero Matter gave her as she\u00c2\u00a0literally<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0consumes most of the Council and her own husband. (I honestly expected Chadwick to survive a lot longer than this. Holy shit, what a surprise.)<\/p>\n
I find her fascinating. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know her master plan at this point, you know? She has power, she claims to want to transform the world, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know what her endgame is. A dictatorship of some sort? An exchange? WHO KNOWS. But\u00c2\u00a0I\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>want to know, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. WHAT IS SHE TURNING INTO. WHAT WILL SHE DO NEXT.<\/p>\n
It was also\u00c2\u00a0brilliant<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0for the writers to have Dottie witness all of this. She was already a wild card, but now??? She knows even more than Peggy, Jason, Jarvis, and Sousa. AND SHE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S BEEN CAPTURED.<\/p>\n
Inevitable<\/b><\/p>\n
So, the show is leading towards Peggy\/Sousa, yes? We have confirmation that Melody broke things off with Sousa; Peggy and Sousa nearly kiss; Jason sees the affection between the couple and is probably going to abandon pursuing Peggy. Which is sad because I did like their chemistry! But Peggy also seems to have chemistry with\u00c2\u00a0literally everyone<\/i>, so there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that. I just hope these other characters don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just disappear if Sousa\/Peggy is endgame.<\/p>\n
The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Life of the Party\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded\u00c2\u00a0here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – I am now on Patreon<\/a>! There are various levels of support, from $1 up to whatever you want! You’ll get to read a private blog, extra reviews, and other such rewards.<\/b> In the sixth episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter, this is a great example of everything escalating very quickly. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[641],"tags":[642],"class_list":["post-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agent-carter","tag-mark-watches-agent-carter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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