{"id":49702,"date":"2015-02-26T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T21:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/26\/agent-carter-the-finale.html"},"modified":"2015-05-12T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:27:05","slug":"agent-carter-the-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/26\/agent-carter-the-finale.html","title":{"rendered":"Agent Carter: The Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ll try to avoid any specific spoilers here (no promises about the comments), but I was generally pleased by the &quot;Agent Carter&quot; wrap-up. Most of the dangling plotlines were resolved (with a few left dangling just to tempt one for another season), most of the character arcs were advanced to a reasonable resting point, and there was a spiffy little twist at the end to tie the whole thing even closer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I&#39;m going to miss the adventures of Peggy Carter more than I&#39;m anticipating the adventures of the modern Agents of SHIELD. I&#39;m certainly looking forward to the contemporary team&#39;s return, but &quot;Agent Carter&quot; has been simpler and more fun than the more tangled mess the more complex cast has gotten into in MAoS.<\/p>\n<p>Ratings for &quot;Agent Carter&quot; were apparently not all that great, so there&#39;s a good chance we won&#39;t see her return. I hope we do, though.<\/p>\n<p>(A good wrap-up of the season in <i>Variety<\/i> is here &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/XK3w3M\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/XK3w3M<\/a> &#8212; URL masked to avoid a spoiler in it.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6120265733492817153\/6120265753424103362'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-e7juu0R7Ht8\/VO-NRrPVB8I\/AAAAAAADKPk\/K4SqX4NPrM4\/agent-carter-finale-postmortem%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/NajisPEDBNC'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ll try to avoid any specific spoilers here (no promises about the comments), but I was generally pleased by the &quot;Agent Carter&quot; wrap-up. Most of the dangling plotlines were resolved (with a few left dangling just to tempt one for another season), most of the character arcs were advanced to a reasonable resting point, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/26\/agent-carter-the-finale.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Agent Carter: The Finale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,525,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/agent-carter-finale-postmortem5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130648,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/no-more-agent-carter-and-no-marvels-most-wanted.html","url_meta":{"origin":49702,"position":0},"title":"No more &quot;Agent Carter,&quot; and no &quot;Marvel&#039;s Most Wanted&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-May-16 6:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I enjoyed ABC's Agent Carter a lot -- but much more so in the first season than in the second, which felt a lot more disjointed. 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