Agent Carter

On the big screen, superheroes are all about noisy spectacle, trite teamwork and saving the world with as much collateral damage as possible. Thankfully, the small screen currently adapts these comic books with a lot more variety and character, from the studied grit of Daredevil to the earnest enthusiasm of Supergirl. Somewhere in the middle lies Agent Carter.Agent Carter Season 1-2 Download.

Set in New York in 1946, this gorgeous-looking series follows the fortunes of one of Marvel’s lesser-known characters: Peggy Carter – a winning performance by Hayley Atwell – was the love interest of Captain America in The First Avenger movie.Thanks to the era she works in, Carter’s “superpower” is everyone else’s sexism. She is massively underestimated and sidelined by her workmates, who largely believe she only got her job at the Strategic Scientific Reserve because she was the Captain’s girlfriend. They will only trust her with filing and running errands, but Carter is resourceful enough to use this to her advantage. The lack of regard she is shown makes her almost invisible: she can enter any meeting as long as she is carrying a tray of coffees; she can duck out of work to follow important leads feigning vague “ladies things” medical problems to her uninterested boss. She also has a few comedy helpless female voices – “I get so confused around books” – to use when she’s discovered snooping.Agent Carter Season 1-2 Download.

When a cache of super-secret dreadful weapons, devised by the Howard Hughes-esque inventor/playboy Howard Stark (later to be father of Tony), goes missing, then turn up in criminal hands, it’s up to Carter to clear Stark’s name. She is aided by his ever loyal butler Jarvis, played with the right amount of comedic stuffiness by James D’Arcy, and thrown into a thrilling conspiracy involving creepy mute assassins with cut vocal chords, hypnotised killers and a ruthless Russian agent called Dottie.