“Now is Not the End”
Directed by Louis D’Esposito
Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
“Bridge and Tunnel”
Directed by Joe Russo
Written by Eric Pearson
I have high hopes about this show. What little I have read about the plot of this short series I have liked. The early reviews have been positive. From the talent working on these opening two episodes I think my high hopes will be rewarded. Markus and McFeely wrote both Captain America films, so they clearly have an idea of what makes Agent Carter ticket, and Russo is one half of the team who directed last year’s excellent Captain America: Winter Soldier film. He’s no stranger to television having directed a bunch of shows, notably Arrested Development and Community.
Looking forward to having this to watch each week, and looking forward to seeing what everyone has to say! Hopefully, I will do a better job of writing capsules for this show. They are fun to do, but can be time consuming.
I’m enjoying it somewhat, but the sexism is making it hard for me to watch. It’s appropriate for the time period. I think it’s because I’m old enough to remember when some of that sort of thing was considered normal.
I’m assuming this Jarvis has some connection to the Jarvis AI in the Iron Man movies? Other than the same person’s voice?
Different person’s voice, actually. JARVIS from Iron Man is Paul Bettany.
The connection is that Howard Stark is Tony’s dad, and Jarvis is his butler. When Tony got into robotics, and made his ‘smart-house’ butler, he presumably named it Jarvis after his dad’s old butler.
In the comics universe, Jarvis is actually Tony’s human butler (and later the butler for the Avengers), not a house-computer.
JARVIS in the movie was said to stand for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System if I recall correctly.
Yupp totally appropriate , too bad they sanitized the smoking which should have been happening in the restaurants and the club.
Not as kinetic as the modern agents, and its a slow ramp up. Not really seeing any story line that would show the SSI morphing into shield, with maybe the teaser from Jarvis at the end, while talking with stark.
I have no idea of any of this Agent Carter storyline exists in the comic world. But trying to piece together the bad guys with no larynx’ and what the heck Leviathan is - and that typewriter they kept kinda cutting away from - grr.
So timeline-wise, this has to occur before the Agent Carter One-shot, but included a scene from the One-Shot during her flashbacks. Oops.
I thought they were laying on Agent Sousa becoming her romantic partner (and later husband?) a little thick, and that it would turn out to be a red herring, but the picture of her at the end pretty much guarantees it. When she’s getting dressed at the beginning, we see her wincing because of the bullet holes in her shoulder. When they finally examine the picture of the blonde at the club, she’s relieved that it doesn’t reveal her face. However, the bullet holes are clearly visible in the picture, and how else could Sousa get to see her bare shoulder?
I’m wondering what Jarvis’s background really is. Clearly he’s not just a prissy butler. With one exception from a different comic universe, butlers don’t learn how to stitch up wounds in the field.
Nice little callback to IM2 with Dr. Vanko. The previews at the end must have been for the entire rest of the season - too much going on for it just to be next episode. And Dum Dum Dugan returns!
I have to admit I wasn’t impressed. My cable went out at 9:30 and it didn’t really bother me to miss the last half hour.
I like Hayley Atwell but I don’t feel a show like this can be carried by essentially a single character. I prefer something like Agents of Shield where we have the interplay of a group of characters.
And I think they could have made the point about sexism better if they had tried for a little subtlety rather than just repeatedly hitting us with it over the head.
I like the show, I like Atwell, but I dislike everyone else at the pre-SHIELD HQ except for Sousa. I hope this mini-series ends with Carter having blown open the conspiracy and her being promoted to the head of the agency and those other guys having to take orders from her. I think the show started out stronger than Agents of SHIELD did, but we’ll see how the ratings pan out in the next 2 months
I enjoyed this a lot. The first Captain America is one of my favorite Marvel films so it is nice to be back in this period. Having he episodes back to back laid the sexism on a little thick but I liked that the other agents aren’t all just meatballs for Carter to run circles around (although one of them clearly is).
Anyone else notice the Russian scientist they consulted was the father of the bad guy from Iron Man 2? I imagine there were tons of Easter Eggs like that.
ETA: I think that while Jerks several of the Agents were at least competent. Also I missed someone else did see the reference I mentioned…oops.