Review: Agent Carter 1.7 - SNAFU

This episode had me going for a bit. Based on the preview trailer I figured that we were going to have a bottle episode. Maybe some interrogating then a recap of the season so far and then a look into Peggy Carter’s past and then Peggy Carter psychologically disassembling her fellow agents before making a sly escape.

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Review: Sleepy Hollow 2.17 - Awakening

Henry’s back and up to no good, and this time he’s got Katrina on his side. There was that ominous thorn-pricking moment where it looked as though she’d unknowingly signed a blood pact- like Frank- but at the end of the episode it still seemed that Katrina acted of her own free will. Which I’m really excited about. I’ve been championing for evil Katrina since day one.

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Review: The Walking Dead 5.10 - Them

I raved about the way season five started. The first half of this season came in with a bang and had some of the best episodes. This second half is slow. Yeah they killed off another main character but it was a slow death that took the whole episode. Now we have to deal with the emotional turmoil of the group.

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Review: Agent Carter 1.6 – A Sin to Err

This was a pretty exciting episode that left me pretty happy. After watching I’m relatively sure we have seen the MCU debut of Dr. Faustus and Yelena Bolova as Black Widow. That’s my assumption as those are the only Eastern European mind controlling therapists and blonde Black Widow’s I know of.

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Review: Arrow 3.12 - Uprising

Oliver is still AWOL, though he’s making his way back, and Team Arrow is doing pretty well in his absence, considering. Malcolm Merlyn wants to team up. He’s pretty adamant about it. Roy’s reluctantly for it, but Felicity’s like, hell no.

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Review: The Flash 1.12 – Crazy For You

This episodes sees singing, the return or Pied Piper, the introduction of Peek-A-Boo and the casual support of sexual abuse as long as in the context of super heroics. Let’s tackle that last one first. I understand it’s a joke in superhero show but it struck me as interesting.

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Review: Agent Carter 1.5 – The Iron Ceiling

This week we go to Russia!  But first we flashback.  To Russia!  The mysterious Dottie has a past.  That past seems to include being handcuffed to a bed as a child and forced to recite Disney movies.  Yes, it sounds like a weekend at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch but it is in fact less sinister than that.  We are introduced to Leviathan and what seems to be the precursor to the Black Widow program or is perhaps actually the Black Widow program.  Little girls fight each other to the death and just to show how cold blooded Dottie is she shares her stolen bread with one of her fellow widow’s and then snaps that same girls neck later on after a fight in the courtyard.  It’s intense. Agent Carter manages to insert herself into a major op happening to track the origins of the typewriter telegraph machine we saw back in episode one.  She snags the Howling Commando’s and her and Agent Thompson, the biggest douche in the SSR, take redshirts of their own to meet up with them.  It’s nice seeing Dum Dum Duggan again as well as the cheaper Howling Commando’s, or at least their non-union look a-likes, again.

Agent Carter 1.5 – The Iron Ceiling 2-5-15

The episode zips right along leaving little time for anything on the side.  Most of the episode focuses on the infiltration of the Leviathan camp which is mostly empty save for one crying little girl.  A crying little girl that manages to stab Duggan, kill one Howling Commando and shoot another in the leg.  They do find captives that deny Stark’s involvement which will probably move towards Stark being able to come back and take over.  At first I was a little confused as to where the series fit compared to the one-shot but now I’m certain that this is all a prequel.  The head of the SSR branch is acting shady so I have a feeling he will be replaced by the guy we know in the one-shot.  Howard Stark and Dum Dum are going to show up as the heads of SHIELD and poor Peggy will end up essentially right where she was when we started the series.  Until the events of the one-shot shortly after.

The episode does a good job setting up a future conflict between Peggy and Dottie and it delivers some nostalgia in the form of the Howling Commando’s.  It gives one of the most poorly written shout out’s ever when Dum Dum awkwardly calls Peggy Miss Union Jack and provides some momentum going forward as one of her co-workers starts to figure out Peggy’s role in all the recent events.  All in all I’m looking forward to seeing how all this plays out.

Score: 3/5

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Review: TMNT 3.10 – Serpent Hunt

My hopes were at an all-time high after the last two episodes. I thought that with the return to the familiar surroundings of New York that things might be okay. I was psyched to see bebop and Rocksteady in the intro (I paused the video so much to get a better look but couldn't).

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