Showing posts with label Agent Carter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agent Carter. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Red Lip Inspiration





When you think of red lips, who do you think of? For me it's Taylor Swift followed by Gwen Stefani. They both rock the cherry lip and make it look effortless and chic no matter what the occasion. I love the look.


Then I started thinking about other women who rock the style and two brunettes came to mind: Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and Nikki Bella. They make it look so sexy and sophisticated.

So now I am just going to post some pictures of some hot red lipstick wearing ladies who totally rock this trend.









Sunday, March 1, 2015

Marvel's Agent Carter Recap - "SNAFU" (S01E07)


 The episode begins with Peggy being interrogated by agents Sousa and Thompson at different times. Both men are trying to wear her down while Chief Dooley and the Russian doctor watch from the other side of the glass. Agent Sousa accuses Peggy of being one of Howard Stark's women and Agent Thompson demands to know what is going on. He tells her that it doesn't add up what the evidence is saying and what he witnessed in Russia. She keeps insisting that is because they are looking in the wrong place. Sousa tells her about all of the evidence they have against her and she is telling them that they are wrong and a trained killer is out there.


Jarvis shows up at the SSR and asks Rose to let him in. She plays dumb and insists she doesn't know what he's talking about. He asks her to page Chief Dooley and let him know that he has Howard Stark's signed confession. Peggy is taken into the conference room in handcuffs where Jarvis is waiting with Chief, Thompson and Sousa. They all want to know what is going on. Jarvis tells them that he has Howard's confession and they will receive the signed page that night when Howard arrives. In exchange, Mr. Stark demands Jarvis and Agent Carter's freedom. Dooley says they are to stay put and when Howard arrives with the signed document then they will be free to go but Peggy is fired. Dooley returns to his office where the doctor is waiting and Agent Sousa tells the men on the floor to keep an eye on Carter.

Jarvis informs Peggy that Howard is not coming and that he panicked when she didn't show so he wrote the confession himself. Peggy is furious because of course Howard will not be showing up, but she insists that she isn't mad at Jarvis- just at the situation.

Chief Dooley calls his wife and they make plans to have dinner together. He is hopeful that things will start moving in the right direction with his family again and he'll be able to stay at home again. Dr. Ivchenko continues to stand by the open window and talks to the Chief about his family. He looks outside and sends Morse code signals to Dottie who is across the street. She has just returned from buying a baby carriage. Peggy looks across the room and sees the doctor. She grabs a notepad and writes down what he is saying. She and Jarvis translate the code and realize that it is a timetable and that Leviathan is coming.


 To gain back their trust, she tells Chief Dooley, Thompson, and Sousa everything. She tells them the truth about everything that has happened and why she conducted her own investigation. She calls them out on their shoty police work and bad investigation. She reminds them of how narrow minded they have been towards Stark and that is why she had to privately conduct her own investigation. They want to know how it was possible for her to run her own investigation right in front of their eyes without raising any suspicion. She tells them it's because she was invisible to them- that none of them see her unless she's filing,bringing them coffee, or bringing them their lunch. She accuses Dooley of seeing her as an abandoned kitten dropped of on his doorstep that he needs to protect. Thompson of seeing her as nothing more than a secretary. And Sousa of seeing her as a girl on a pedestal with questionable taste in men. She got away with it because she isn't seen. She tells them about Captain America's blood and how she stole it. She reveals that she isn't sure why she did it once she found out what it really was. She thinks that maybe she was trying to give herself a second chance at keeping him safe.


Dooley, Thompson, and Sousa meet in the hall and Sousa says he believes her. Thompson and Dooley accuse him of going soft, and Dooley instructs them to check the building across the street just in case. They take a team over and Dooley asks Dr. Ivchenko to close the window. The doctor questions him and Dooley plays it off, but he sees the men heading across the street. He hypnotizes Dooley and takes control of his mind. He has him lock Peggy and Jarvis in an interrogation room, handcuffing them to the table. He thenhas Dooley take him to the lab and get all of the scientists out. They look for Stark's invention number 17 and the doctor also takes a mysterious vest. He has Dooley walk him out and put on the vest.

Meanwhile, the agents dispurse in the building and Thompson tells Sousa that if he sees this woman, shoot to kill. After seeing what the little girl did to them in Russia, he's afraid to see one all grown up. Sousa runs into Dottie as she tries to escape. They fight and he shoots at her but she gets into the stairwell. The agents try to get her, but she kills one in her escape. The doctor picks her up and they drive away. Sousa finds the dead dentist and sees where she and the doctor have been communicating. He finds her messages, including one with that says to kill Peggy.


Jarvis and Peggy break the mirror to try and get out, but they realize they're still handcuffed to the table. Thompson hears the noise and comes in, letting them go. They rush to find Chief Dooley, who is in his office with the vest on. Jarvis immediately voices concern over Dooley wearing the vest, informing everyone that it is impossible to get off once it has been activated. They carefully get Dooley out of his office and he is angry with himself for trusting the doctor and letting him get in his head. The vest continues to heat up and gets closer to com-busting. The scientists and Jarvis can't find a way to get him out of it and Dooley accepts it. He asks Thompson to tell his wife he's sorry he missed dinner and he makes Peggy promise to catch Ivchenko. She promises and he replies with "attagirl" before taking off and shooting at a window. He jumps out just as the vest explodes. Sousa sees the explosion and rushes over only to find out that Dooley is dead.

Dottie takes the baby carriage into the movie theater and leaves it once the show starts. A gas can starts leaking from the the carriage. The people in the theater start coughing and then violently attacking one another until they are all dead.

Marvel's Agent Carter Recap - "A Sin to Err" (S01E06)



Dr. Ivchenko, the prisoner who was rescued in “The Iron Ceiling,” tells the sad tale of how he and others were forcefully recruited by Leviathan in Russia back in 1944.Peggy questions him about the girls who were being trained at the boarding school. She thinks that one of them killed Agent Krzeminski. and Chief Dooley gives her permission to follow up on her hunch.

Peggy asks Jarvisfor a list of all the ladies Howard Stark has "entertained" over the past six months. She learns that he gives a lovelybracelet to all his women, so the process of elimination begins from the jeweler’s client list. Despite Jarvis’s suspicions, Ginger Rogers is ruled out as a suspect. Peggy looks for a specific one of Stark’s women—someone with scars on her wrists from being handcuffed. Poor Jarvis endures slaps and kicks from many of the scorned women who don’t pan out.

Dottie sets up shop in an office across the street from the SSR offices after brutally disposing of the sleazy dentist who worked there. Across the street, Dr. Ivchenko deduces that Dooley is having problems with his marriage. He gazes out the window of the chief’s office. Dottie has the doc lined up in the scope of her rifle. She’s not going to shoot him though. She instead sends him a message via flashing lights. Dr. Ivchenko covertly responds using Morse code. His orders for Dottie are, "Give him more time to find the item and to kill Peggy Carter."

Agent Thompson blows off Agent Yauch’s concern about the chief spending too much time with the Russian doctor. Dr. Ivchenko attempts to hypnotize Chief Dooley who snaps out of it when Agent Sousa interrupts. Sousa chatted with Sheldon McFee, the milk truck driver who was caught transporting explosives in “Bridge and Tunnel.”  and he has identified Peggy as the person who beat him up.

A woman named Ida left a cleaned-out apartment with a bed that indicates handcuffs were used on the post. Peggy believes she’s the one they are looking for. She meets up with Jarvis to touch base. While doing so, she notices that she’s being surrounded by SSR agents. Peggy goes into full takedown mode to make an escape. Unfortunately, Thompson is waiting outside for her. Peggy has no choice but to take him down, too. Sousa shows up moments later, but he can’t shoot her. Later, Chief Dooley brands Peggy Carter a fugitive.

Dr. Ivachenko uses his time with Agent Yauch, who is ordered to babysit him, to manipulate him. He hypnotizes Yauch to tell him where Howard Stark’s inventions are being kept. He also learns all the exit routes. He then convinces Yauch to leave the office, have a drink and step into the path of a moving vehicle and kill himself.

After her encounter with Thompson and Sousa, Peggy races to her apartment to get Captain Steve Rogers’s blood. Thompson, Sousa and a team of agents are in hot pursuit.When Peggy hears them approaching her room, she climbs out onto the ledge of the building to avoid capture. She carefully edges her way over to the next apartment where Angie sees her. When the SSR agents come into her room asking her if she's seen Peggy, Angie covers for her by breaking down in tears over the thought of her grandmother telling them that Peggy told her she was going to visit her ill grandmother. The SSR agents vacate the apartment awkwardly.

Angie had mentioned plans to give up acting earlier but is now reconsidering. She helps Peggy in off the ledge and confesses that she knew she didn’t work at the phone company. She looks forward to learning what all this is about someday, but for now she says goodbye to her friend. Peggy gives Angie a goodbye hug and she steps into the hall where another familiar face awaits.

Dottie steps up to Peggy and she plants an unexpected kiss on her. Peggy becomes woozy after the kiss and she realizes that Dottie had used her lipstick. She realizes that Dottie is not who she seems and is probably the woman she has been searching for as she falls unconscious. Dottie pulls out a switchblade, about to kill Peggy, but before she can act, the SSR arrives. They arrest Peggy and bring her in for questioning. Chief Dooley instructs Thompson and Sousa not go easy on her just because she's a girl.









Original air date 2/10/15

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Marvel's Agent Carter Recap: "The Iron Ceiling" (S01E05)

In this episode, Peggy decodes a message sent by the mysterious typewriter. It turns out that the message includes coordinates in Russia and suggests that Howard Stark would be there. Chief wants Agent Thompson to go with a team and retrieve Stark. Peggy insists on coming along, but neither of them want her too. She then contacts the 'Howling Commandos' and requests their assistance. When she informs Chief of the Commandos assistance, he allows her to go to Russia.

Peggy is forced to change into her tactical suit in the men's locker room and while she is in there Thompson plays a trick on her and Sousa. He asks Sousa to retrieve something from him on the other side of the room (he had no idea Peggy was in there) and he walks in on her half dressed. She turns around and he sees her bullet wound scars which he recognizes from the picture of the mysterious blonde.


Agents Carter and Thompson head out with 2 other S.S.R. agents to Russia where they meet up with the 'Howling Commandos' who express how much they've missed Peggy. During a talk around the fire, Peggy learns how Agent Thompson received his navy cross during the war and she begins to look at him a little differently. The next day, Agent Carter leads the team into what looks like a warehouse where they find a classroom where a projector is playing a cartoon that is filled with subliminal messaging. As they make their way through the building they find a room full of beds with handcuffs on them. In the room, a little girl is crying and Dum Dum Dugan is stabbed by her. The knife really only gets his vest but she manages to kill Junior before disappearing.

They realize they have to get out of there and on their way to find an exit they run into two men in a cell. One is a scientist and the other a doctor. They show the agents the blueprints they were given by Leviathan's men which are from Stark Enterprises. They were tasked with building the object. Peggy and Thompson free them as they try to make their escape. The four of them end up getting cornered by soldiers, shooting at them. Thompson freezes in a moment of PTSD while the imprisoned scientist holds one of the Commandos hostage- offering him to the Russians. Peggy tries to calm him down but the doctor shoots him. As Peggy fires back at the Russians, the Commandos' burst through the wall to get her and Thompson out of there. Peggy grabs him and tells him to break out of it and focus. They escape-barely- and take the doctor back to the States with them. Peggy says her goodbyes to the Commandos and on the plane ride home she learns even more about Thompson. He tells her that the soldiers he killed were actually coming to surrender and that he buried the white flag before anyone else saw it. He told Peggy about how guilty he felt about what he had done and once they returned to the office, he took her out for a bourbon.
















Original air date 2/3/15

Marvel's Agent Carter Recap: "The Blitzkrieg Button" (S01E04)


Ok so in the latest episode, it was revealed that one of the "weapons" that was stolen from Howard Stark is a vile of Steve Rogers AKA Captain America's blood. Howard came back to town and hid in Peggy's apartment, while tasking her with retrieving the vile. He lied to her about it and claimed the object was something that could shut down the entire city if she opened it. Peggy figures out that Jarvis is lying to her about the object, so naturally she opens it after switching it out with a fake one in the SSR lab. Naturally, she is devastated and ends up punching Howard, throwing him out, and telling him that she is done working for him. Peggy keeps the vile and hides it in her room.


 Meanwhile, the new woman on the floor, Dottie, killed the man who sneaked in to kill Peggy- that was a twist NO ONE saw coming. I thought Dottie was this sweet naive girl, but it turns out she's an assassin of some sort. So now Dottie has a revolver, and Peggy has quit her mission.


Also in the episode: the chief heads off to interview a former Nazi and leaves Agent Thompson in charge which went about as great as you'd imagine. He demands they find out where Howard Stark is and Agent Sousa decides to go to the docks to try and get a finger print from the phone that called in the anonymous tip. While he's there, he sees some bums and brings one of them in for questioning. He and Thompson battle it out and eventually get some information from the guy. He tells them he saw a dark haired woman and a well dressed man. In the midst of the interrogation- Sousa opens up to the homeless man about his time in the war while Thompson listens on. Naturally Thompson was cruel and callous with Sousa.





 Peggy runs into Thompson while attempting to sneak out with the vile- and he asks her why she even works there and informs her that women will never have a place other than secretary in the work place. After the chief returns, Sousa looks at the picture of the blond woman and starts coloring her hair in dark. Is he figuring out it's Peggy? Also, the transmitter that the police found starts typing something on the typewriter. I'm afraid that Agent Carter will be mentioned....




(also, Stan Lee was in this episode getting his shoes shined with Howard and Jarvis)




Original air date 1/27/15

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Marvel's Agent Carter - Review



Holy cow Batman, there is finally a kick-ass woman in the lead role of a television show!

For anyone who has been living under a rock, I am talking about Marvel's Agent Carter. Peggy Carter is one bad-ass woman, and I am so in awe of her. Finally there is a powerful, witty, independent, and intelligent woman in the lead role of a television show, in the super hero genre no less, and it is actually about her- not a love story. Obviously as with any show, love is involved, but this one is more about lost love and moving on with life.

It's a nice change of pace to have such a positive role model for girls (of all ages). Peggy does not need a man to get by. She isn't a pushover. She isn't a bitch. She stands up for herself and speaks her mind when she needs to and when it's appropriate, and when it's not- she bites her tongue and takes it like a woman. She is a loyal friend, as evidenced by her basically committing treason, and she is smart. You see, there are a lot of female driven shows all over television, but they are filled with love triangles and the men constantly saving the women. Instead, the show brings to light what it was like for women in the work place after the war, and even how far things have come. It makes me so sad how the men in her office treat her- especially because she is just as good/if not better than they are at what they do.

The main cast includes:
  • Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
  • James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis who is Howard Stark's butler and ally to Carter, who will eventually be a tutor to Tony Stark and inspire his J.A.R.V.I.S. artificial intelligence.
  • Chad Michael Murray as Jack Thompson who is a war veteran and an agent with the S.S.R.
  • Enver Gjokaj as Daniel Sousa who is a war veteran and an agent with the S.S.R. He experiences prejudice due to his crippled leg which allows him to relate to Carter
  • Shea Whigham as Roger Dooley who is the S.S.R. chief and oversees agents Carter, Thompson, and Sousa
Recurring cast includes:
  •  Kyle Bornheimer as Ray Krzeminski who is an S.S.R. agent
  • Ralph Brown as Ivchenko who is Russian psychiatrist working undercover in America for Leviathan
  • Alexander Carroll as Yauch who is a young S.S.R. agent Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark who is the father of Tony Stark as well as a founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Meagen Fay as Miriam Fry who is the proprietor of The Griffith- the boarding house where Carter and Angie live
  • Lyndsy Fonseca as Angie Martinelli who is a waitress and aspiring actress that befriends Carter.
  • Bridget Regan as Dottie Underwood who is a small-town girl from Iowa who moves next door to Carter and has a secret
Guests include:

  • Lesley Boone as Rose who is a switchboard operator working for the S.S.R.
  • Kevin Cotteleer as Alex Doobin who is an S.S.R. scientist
  • James Frain as Leet Brannis who is a former operative of Leviathan
  • Ralph Garman as the radio announcer
  • James Landry Hébert as Sasha Demidov who is a Leviathan operative
  • James Austin Kerr as Jonathan "Junior" Juniper who is a member of the 'Howling Commandos' who works with Carter
  • Neal McDonough as Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan who is a member of the 'Howling Commandos' who works with Carter
  • Devin Ratray as Sheldon McFee who is a truck driver at Daisy Clover who was bribed to aid Brannis
  • Walker Roach as the "Captain America" radio actor
  • Leonard Roberts as Samuel "Happy Sam" Sawyer who is a member of the 'Howling Commandos' who works with Carter
  • Benita Robledo as Carol who is a nurse living in The Griffith with Carter
  • Costa Ronin as Anton Vanko who is the co-creator of the arc reactor with Howard Stark
  • Richard Short as Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton who is a member of the 'Howling Commandos' who works with Carter
  • Erin Torpey as the "Betty Carver" radio actress
  • James Urbaniak as Miles Van Ert who is a scientist at Roxxon Oil
  • Ray Wise as Hugh Jones who is the President of Roxxon Oil
  • Stan Lee cameos in "The Blitzkrieg Button" as a shoeshiner patron
  • John Glover cameos in "The Iron Ceiling" as a journalist and friend of Dooley
  • Chris Evans appears in "Now is Not the End" as Steve Rogers / Captain America via archive footage from "Captain America: The First Avenger"




Overall Rating: a MUST watch show.









*additional information found on Wikipedia