Amy Richau reviews the second episode of Marvel’s Agent Carter…
Agent Carter’s second outing “Bridge and Tunnel” isn’t as strong as the pilot episode [reviewed here], but is still on overall entertaining hour of action and intrigue. Continuing the storyline from the pilot episode, Agent Carter continues to track down the weapons developed from one of Howard Stark’s inventions.
Carter is far from the only person looking for the weapon however, as her fellow agents at the SSR (Strategic Scientific Research) are also trying to hunt it down. Carter’s double life of helping to clear Stark’s name while working for the same people who are tasked with bringing him in to face charges of treason would be enough for any character to juggle, but Peggy Carter is also faced with another problem to solve. She needs a place to live.
“Bridge and Tunnel” focuses a bit more on the supporting characters in Agent Carter than the pilot which was more or less a showcase for actress Hayley Atwell, but only Stark’s assistant Jarvis (James D’Arcy) is very memorable so far.
Carter’s SSR co-workers aren’t boring to watch, but they also didn’t leave much of an impression on me. There’s her boss Roger Dooley (Shea Whigham) who thinks of Carter as a glorified secretary, cocky know-it-all Jack Thompson (Chad Michael Murray), and the war veteran who clearly has a soft spot for Agent Carter Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj). None of these are given anything very memorable to do in episode two and it’s hard to know if the show will (or should) focus much on Carter’s fellow SSR officers in the future.
Clearly the producers of the show want to explore more of Peggy Carter’s personal side as “Bridge and Tunnel” spends quite a bit of time solidifying Carter’s friendship with local waitress Angie Martinelli (Lyndsy Fonseca) which ends up with Carter moving into the women’s boarding house where Martinelli lives.
There’s quite a bit of action involving tracking down glowing weapons and Carter trying to keep her work for Stark hidden from her co-workers, but the episode is clearly also trying to hook viewers with the “Leviathan” mystery. It looks to me that finding out who or what Leviathan is will dominate the eight episode run of Agent Carter. Hopefully the rest of the remaining episodes have a bit more to them individually to keep viewers interested along the way.
Amy Richau is a freelance entertainment and sports writer. Follow her on Twitter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z2vq4CudKRk&list=PL18yMRIfoszFJHnpNzqHh6gswQ0Srpi5E
Originally published January 7, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
