‘The Lady in the Lake’ opens the new season of Marvel’s Agent Carter with a rematch between Peggy and ‘Dotty Underwood’, the one loose end from the first season (as a dazzling opening montage of last year’s run reminds us). Dotty is breaking into a bank vault, but the SSR are a step ahead and … >
Transmitted on Radio 4 in 2014, as part of their Dangerous Visions series, Derek Jacobi takes the lead in B7 Media’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic anthology of Mars tales, now available through Big Finish Productions. While the written version boasts nearly thirty tales of varying length, this production chooses to focus on just a … >
The second season of Marvel’s Agent Carter begins in the UK later this month. Starring Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter, reprising her role from Marvel’s Captain America films, the new episdes will run closer to US broadcast than ever before. > Buy Season 1 of Agent Carter on DVD on Amazon. Season 2 premieres … >
The second season of Agent Carter will start in the UK at the end of next month. Starring Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter, reprising her role from Marvel’s Captain America films, the new episdes will run closer to US broadcast than ever before. Season 2 premieres in the UK at 9pm on Thursday 28 … >
The first season of Marvel spin-off Agent Carter (finally) completed its run in the UK last month. So now that Peggy has put paid to the evil machinations of Leviathan, it’s time to look to the future. Peggy and her pals will return in a 10-part second season in 2016, which is to be set … >
In a neat parallel to the dramatic climax of the first Captain America movie, ‘Valediction’ sees Peggy in radio contact with the pilot of an aircraft loaded with deadly weaponry and on a seemingly-doomed mission. This time the pilot is Howard Stark rather than Captain America. And this time the good guys win across the … >
If last week’s episode of Agent Carter belonged to the women then ‘Snafu’, with all due respect to the title character, really belongs to the men. Take Mr Jarvis, the effete English manservant who serves both as Howard Stark’s representative and as Agent Carter’s foil. Full of inspiration and improvisation he turns up at SSR … >
Having variously punched, shoved and concussed what seems like every law-enforcement man in New York, Agent Carter is ironically brought down by a woman at the end of this sixth episode. I say ironically, because it is the very woman that Peggy has spent much of the episode looking for. Following on from last week’s … >
If Agent Carter had been involved with the suffragette movement I can’t help thinking the vote would have come a lot sooner because within the space of only five episodes Peggy has managed to go from being patronised and ignored by the rest of the SSR, to being invited out for an after-work drink with … >
Things are difficult enough for Agent Peggy Carter – a single working woman in 1940s New York keeping her role as secret agent hidden from the world, not to mention keeping her real agenda hidden from the rest of the SSR. So in hindsight it’s perhaps unfortunate that she’s added to her problems by moving … >