The last few episodes of Flash and Arrow have seen quite a lot happening for our heroes and villains, alike. With both shows taking a break this week, its time to take a look at everything that has occurred, and what we might expect to see going forward. (Obviously, massive spoilers for both shows follow…
If nothing else, you have to give Agents of SHIELD credit for putting thought into their titles. They usually work on several levels, and sometimes are just plain entertaining on their own. “Love In the Time of Hydra” qualifies on all counts, and was a good episode.
There are secrets and plots all over the place in “One of Us,” which is appropriate enough for a show about super-spies. The Agents of SHIELD have more enemies than they know about, and are kept pretty damn busy chasing around this week. And they even work in a jaw-dropping surprise about Agent May’s background.
This seems like a good time to take stock in the various hero shows out there. Agent Carter finished her initial season with no real word on if the show will be back, ditto for Constantine. Flash is on another of those odd few week breaks with no explanation as is Arrow. Gotham is still driving ahead, and there are rumors of new projects all over.
Agent Carter finishes her limited series with “Valediction.” The show started with another episode of the Captain America radio show they’ve been using to either contrast Peggy’s life or as commentary on the times. This one seemed to be a dramatization of the mission where Cap crashed, which made a bit of the episode more poignant.
Agent Carter’s miniseries is almost over, and “SNAFU” raised the stakes a lot. It was a very tense, well-written episode, and managed to rise above many of the problems I’ve been having with the series. It was also a brutal episode on a few fronts.
Barry deals with a couple of love sick metahumans, whilst Ollie returns to a city in turmoil, and Laurel finally finds her place. (As per usual, spoilers for “Crazy For You,” “The Nuclear Man,” “Uprising,” and “Canaries” follow within.)
“A Sin To Err,” is the title of the latest Agent Carter episode, as the series builds towards its finale. The Stark plot seems to have been mostly dropped by the writers, and even the cast, barring obsessive agent Jack Thompson. Now, the focus is on Leviathan, the mysterious organization that is lurking behind the scenes in Russia.
I do give them credit for some clever titles on Agent Carter. “The Iron Ceiling” as an episode manages to both give a fair amount of background on Dottie, Carter’s new neighbor, and tie in to Black Widow’s past. The title itself is a play on the infamous Iron Curtain, as well as the glass ceiling that, to this day, plagues so many women. There are a lot of interesting surprises here, and they finally let Peggy get some credit at the SSR, which is a nice change.
Peggy Carter really does seem to be attacked from all directions in “The Blitzkrieg Button.” Leviathan is still out there somewhere, plotting. Howard Stark is back, and he has some questionable motives. And, due in part to how Howard came back, a smuggler called Mr. Mink is after Peggy and Jarvis, with a very odd weapon. It looks something like a Gatling pistol to me. And, of course, she’s still getting clubbed over the head by the “Men are awesome, women are worthless” theme of the show, over and over and over, but more on that later.
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