With her lack of superpowers and 1940s milieu,Agent Carter is blessedly insulated from the insanity of the rest of the Marvel universe. All the more reason to welcome her return for the show’s second seasonShe’s the English secret agent who had a special relationship with Captain America. She has no superpowers – unless you count a heightened fashion sense and being handy with a pump-action shotgun but is capable of foiling diabolical plots. She’s a woman operating in a man’s world, but while her sexist colleagues in the Strategic Scientific Reserve own the suits, or hats and tommy guns,she’s the one who seems untouchable. There are lots of reasons to adore Peggy Carter, not least because Hayley Atwell’s plucky performance is so appealing. But perhaps one of the most obvious is that, and for someone who is allotment of the ballooning Marvel screen universe,Peggy doesnt seem weighed down by too much baggage.
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Source: theguardian.com