Marvel's Agent Carter: Season 1 [Amazon Exclusive]

Love Peggy Carter!⭐️

“Agent Carter: The Complete First Season” picks up after the events of “Captain America: The First Avenger” and the 2013 “Agent Carter” Marvel One-Short short film. In the story, Peggy (Hayley Atwell) works for the Strategic Scientific Reserve investigating Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper), who is accused of selling weapons to America’s enemies. He enlists Peggy to help prove his innocence. She teams with Stark’s butler, Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy) to track a secret organization called Leviathan that seeks Stark’s more dangerous inventions, at times working against the SSR due to their predisposition to believe the official narrative. Agent Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) proves an ally, though Peggy and he often face off due to the nature of spycraft and their respective positions in the SSR. As part of Marvel Television following the first “Avengers” film, the series helps to expand the franchise’s universe by filling in some of the years between “Captain America” and the films set later in continuity. The sets and costumes in “Agent Carter” perfectly recreate the immediate postwar world while using the longer format of television storytelling to explore the politics of the early Cold War and the gender expectations as men returned home. The retro spy gadgets are a particularly fun addition.The series brings back several of the supporting cast from the first “Captain America” film, including Atwell and Cooper, while D’Arcy’s Jarvis helps to foreshadow Tony Stark’s later computer butler voiced by Paul Bettany. D’Arcy later reprised this role in “Avengers: Endgame.” Neal McDonough also returns as Timothy “Dum Dum” Dugan of the Howling Commandos while the series introduces commandos Happy Sam Sawyer (Leonard Roberts), Junior Juniper (James Austin Kerr), and Pinky Pinkerton (Richard Short). Using its early Cold War setting, the series includes references to the Black Widow program and to Anton Vanko, the original Crimson Dynamo (played by Costa Ronin) from the comics. Agent Carter followed the second season premiere of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”, which also featured Peggy and Dum Dum in a flashback along with Jim Morita (Kenneth Choi). Finally, Toby Jones reprises his role as Arnim Zola in a quick cameo. The only downsides to this Blu-ray set are the lack of a “play all” setting for the episodes and that the only bonus feature is a blooper reel. Otherwise, “Agent Carter” is a smart and fun thrill-ride that will entertain Marvel fans and does a great job connecting to the films and other television series.

Since Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, Marvel has been pursuing other outlets to continue their ever expanding cinematic universe. Recently Marvel has turned to television and Netflix to keep their movie universe vibrant and ongoing outside of the movie theater. Agent Carter takes place in 1946, give or take a year after the events that that occur in Captain America: The First Avenger. Agent Carter still works with the SSR (the precursor to SHIELD), but despite her valiant efforts during the war she is just a secretary who grabs lunch for the agents who actually go out and do the grunt work. Howard Stark has been robbed and his weapons are found to have been sold to enemies of the United States. Howard, predominantly through his butler, Jarvis, enlists the aid of Agent Carter in retrieving his stolen property and setting the record straight. Along the way, Carter can’t let anyone know that she is working with Stark, all the while engaging and managing the everyday life of a woman in 1946 on the surface. The show is absolutely amazing. Marvel does an excellent job capturing the 40s setting. The soundtrack is very well done as well as appropriate both in sound and in adding the proper songs of the period. The casting is very good and the writing is excellent. Some of the best characters in the show are actually the supporting cast, my favorite being Chief Dooley who comes off as being a jerk but turns out to be a very multi-dimensional character. Marvel does a great job connecting the dots and showing items, places, ideas and people that we have seen or will see in the movies. It expands the universe and adds more depth to the world that we see throughout the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, the show does stagger in a few areas but nothing that really impacts the quality of the show. The first, Agent Carter has demonstrated herself during the war as an exemplary agent. However, she is treated like a paperweight in the post war world. This is probably an attempt to make a statement about gender, which is fine, but that sacrifices a lot of story elements for the sake of a political statement and to be fair, I highly doubt a woman that has done the things that she has done would be reduced to such a low occupation after the war. Secondly, the show sometimes forgets that it is set in 1946, a different time where America was still prejudiced, racist and intolerant. The show doesn’t focus on that and tends to be more open to some of the things that we see today and not historically accurate depictions of people in the US at the time. But overall Agent Carter is a thrilling watch. A period piece with elements of noir that at the end of the day comes down to the hardships of loving someone who you will never see again. Reclusive villains from the comics lurk in the background as well as a nod to the origin of a specific Avenger….I’ll let you figure that out. Agent Carter is fun, daring, and adds even more depth to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Nice series with no super power. Few gadgets to b used. Agent carter is beautiful n smart and from there I leave it to u to watch her in action.

Agent Carter ist ein Muß für jeden Marvel Fan, für jeden, der mal eine wirklich taffe Frau als Hauptfigur sehen will. Keine Superhelden, sondern Helden und ein toller Blick auf Harald Stark und Jarvis (ihr wisst schon wer das ist). Auch wenn ich nicht nachvollziehen kann, wo die gute Peggy all ihre Klamotten her hat, sie sieht immer angemessen aus und das Setting ist einmalig.Und dazu kommt noch eine Geschichte, die über die ganze Staffel geht, die sehr fesselnd ist.Leider war nach zwei Staffeln Schluss... sehr traurig, den die Charaktere, die Erzählweise und die Ausstattung sind einmalig?

Es spricht für sich, dass nach den Agents of SHIELD auch Agent Carter ihre eigene Serie bekommt. Frauen sind im Action-Genre immer noch unterrepräsentiert, und diese Frau hat es in sich. Ich freue mich schon auf die nächste Season...

Peggy Carter ist gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs LIaison-Offizierin für Captain America gewesen, mit dem sie auch eine intime Beziehung hatte. Außerdem war sie auch Mitglied des Spezialteams, das unter einem damals noch jüngeren Nick Fury allerlei gefährliche Einsätze durchfürhte.Nun ist es 1946 und der Kreig gegen die Nazis ist zuende, die GIs kehren heim und Peggy Carter findet sich in der Zentrale des SSR - der Vorläuferorganisation von S.H.I.E.L.D. - in der Position der Telefonbewacherin und Kaffeekocherin. Wie viele andere Frauen, die in der Abwesenheit der Männer sogenannte "Männerjobs" übernommen hatten, soll auch sie wieder in die Rolle des braven Mädchens zurücktreten, das am Arbeitsplatz in erster Linie nach einem Mann sucht. Doch das ist durchaus nicht Peggys Absicht.Deswegen wendet sich Howard Stark, als er wegen angeblichem Landesverrat durch den Verkauf von Massenvernichtungswaffen an den Feind angeklagt wird, an Peggy, die er noch aus dem Krieg kennt, damit diese zum Einen dabei hilft, die im Umlauf befindlichen Waffen zu sichern, zum Anderen dabei, seinen - na ja - guten Namen wieder reinzuwaschen. Und so muss Peggy - mit der Hilfe von Jarvis, Starks treuem Butler - verdeckt neben und teilweise auch gegen die SSR ermitteln, wodurch sie immer wieder in ungeahnte Gefahr gerät.In vielerlei Hinsicht ist die Zeit direkt nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ein Rückschritt für die Rolle der Frau in der westlichen Gesellschaft gewesen, wie man nicht nur an Peggy, sondern auch an vielen ihrer Geschlechtsgenossinnen sehen kann. Peggy leidet darunter wie alle anderen, aber es gelingt ihr auch immer wieder, die Vorurteile der Männern - und einger Frauen - für sich selbst und ihre Ermittlungen zu nutzen - und so den Männern zu zeigen, wer auf den Schlachtfeldern der Geheimorganisationen wirklich die Hosen anhat.Erzählerisch dicht, ausstattungstechnisch hervorragend und insgesamt sehr überzeugend gespielt ist diese erste - ziemlich in sich abgeschlossene - Staffel eine überaus zufriedenstellende Leistung, die richtig Lust auf die zweite Staffel macht.