Television Overview, Part 2: Superhero Shows, Mostly Marvel

[osprey_archer]

And now part 2: superhero shows! I have clearly attempted a lot of superhero shows this year.

Agents of SHIELD should technically also be on this list, but the part about it grew so long that I moved it to its own separate post.

Daredevil. I watched four episodes of this and bombed out of it. In between the time that Matt tortured a Russian guy and tossed him off the roof, and the time that Fisk smashed the other Russian guy’s head in a car door, and the fact that half the cinematography is so dark that I have no idea what’s going on - no. Just not feeling it. Even though there is a scene later in the season where Matt and Foggy cry at each other, apparently.

Jessica Jones. I started watching the first episode of this, but it looks harrowing, everyone tells me it’s harrowing, and I just don’t really feel like being harrowed right now. In between Daredevil and Graceland and Agents of SHIELD, I’ve had my televised harrowing for the year.

Supergirl. I watched the first few episodes of this and then missed an episode because I was on vacation and somehow never felt the need to catch up. Maybe I’ll watch it when it comes out on DVD? I enjoyed it; it just didn’t sweep me off my feet.

(I realize this is shallow, but I think I would be more interested in Supergirl if the show didn’t lean so hard on the “They’re sisters. Sisters!” angle to Kara and Alex’s relationship. They’re not biologically related! They didn’t even meet till they were teenagers! You didn’t have to go and make this potential ship all incestuous, show.)

Agent Carter. HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS SHOW. I mean, I have my quibbles with it (the SSR makes a habit of beating suspects with large sticks, really?), but they are as nothing in the face of my adoration of Peggy Carter, cranky BAMF with gorgeous hats who defeats her enemies through the brutal use of staplers

I love Peggy, I love Jarvis, I would love to punch Howard Stark in the face (but, like, it would be a punch of exasperated fondness), I love Dottie Underwood and I will probably cry if she does not return in season 2, ALL I WANT IS FOR HER AND PEGGY TO BE NEMESES AND HAVE EPIC FOEYAY OKAY, like seriously, I want the two of them to have to team up to fight a Greater Evil and maybe argue about the merits of communism vs. capitalism, possibly while handcuffed together for Important Plot Reasons -

Okay, that might be devolving into fanfic territory a bit, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND the show did give us Dottie kissing Peggy in order to knock her out with knockout lipstick in season one, so it’s not impossible that the writers have a direct line to my id.

Comments

[littlerhymes]

I would watch the Dottie and Peggy show ALL DAY EVERY DAY.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

It would be the best! I live in hope. Maybe Dottie was actually the first Black Widow to defect to SHIELD? Maybe Natasha found out about her defection (thought I'm sure the Red Room keeps it a closely guarded secret) and that was the thing that first sparked her dream of defecting. She already wanted to get away, but now she had a possible destination.