Agent Carter Season 1 Eps 1-2 (TV Show Review)

Captain America debuted in Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The First Avenger back in summer of 2011, bringing to a new generation of fans a new look at one of Marvel’s greatest heroes and also a new look at HYDRA and the Red Skull, two villainous mainstays of Marvel’s villains line-up. It was a decent movie, though it had some pacing and acting issues that prevented it from being really good. And in all of that, there was one character who rather flew under the radar so to speak, Agent Peggy Carter. In the last year or so she has taken on an entirely new dimension and Haley Atwell has become the first female Marvel actor to get her own live-action story in the form of Agent Carter.

Set in the years since the end of the Second World War, the new show is a prequel to Agents of SHIELD, though the time-gap separating the two of them is something like 70 years or thereabouts. A lot has changed since then, and as the first episode of the two-hour special premiere started, it was apparent that we were definitely not in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that has been developed over the last decade or so. Agent Carter has a very distinctive feel to it and though it is starting off as a decent procedural and is often riddled with tropes of the noir-era, it also has a great charm to it, not to mention that Haley Atwell and James D’Arcy are absolutely superb in their roles as Agent Carter and Edwin Jarvis, the latter being the butler to Tony Stark’s father Howard Stark. Great potential here.

Sleepy Hollow Season 2 Ep 12 (TV Show Review)

The mid-season finale last month proved to be a major game-changer. The show had been building up to this one big epic confrontation between the heroes and the villains and it all finally happened as Moloch succeeded in manifesting himself on Earth and began to bring about a merging of Earth with Purgatory, over which he held dominion. But then, something really incredible happened, and it was all for naught because the great demon overlooked something quite… human, which proved to be his terrible downfall.

And that brings us to this week’s episode, “Paradise Lost“, the mid-season premiere of a great show. In this new episode, we find out what happened to the heroes after their big confrontation with Moloch, and how the span of time since then has changed them all. Moloch is gone, good and proper, and so a semblance of normality is returning to their lives, but an evil like Moloch doesn’t go out all the way and Team Witness’ bad time is about to get a whole lot worse because there are many more dangers out there now, now that many of the denizens of Purgatory have fled to Earth and have begun to cause mayhem.

Note: This review contains spoilers for the mid-season finale, episode 11.