I gasped when Jarvis shot Whitney with not an ounce of hesitation; it's very interesting to see his darker side here especially because he was mostly reduced to a comic relief so far in this season. The restaurant scene, Sousa being annoyed with Samberly and Thompson make for some very fun scenes and jokes. Zero matter keeps being very uninteresting to me and I'm beginning to think that this season would habe been a lot better if it didn't focus on something supernatural (- and if it ditched the love triangle).
I thought the episode was amazing until the end of the episode when Jarvis mucks it all up. I get that he is pissed and all, I would be too in a possession like his. But he just completely ignores Peggy and Sousa who have held to there word completely to that point. It really makes no sense. I sill liked the episode but was shaping up to be my favorite episode of the series until the writers seemed to think it was a good idea to put something so completely out of character and logic in the script simply to extend the season.
Jarvis and Ana, good history. That dance in the head of Peggy
No hagas promesas que no puedes cumplir.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-02-25T02:29:33Z
Perfectly good episode. The highlight was the story between Jarvis and Ana. The clear distress in Jarvis's otherwise prim and proper visage drove home the severity of what had happened, and his string of promises to bring her back to consciousness was a sweet and charming moment between the couple. I'm sure the Jezebel crowd will have a field day with the infertility development (and in truth, it feels fairly unnecessary), but Jarvis's care for his wife and anger at Whitney Frost were the most firm and resonant thing in the episode, and it showed.
The rest of it was good enough, if not particularly inspiring. Ken Marino is always a hoot, and the scene where Peggy storms into his restaurant and has a sit down with him was great comedy. There's also some thematic material in Frost's conversations with Wilkes about not resisting and using what's happened to them for their own ends. Again, the mystery of what zero matter is and does exactly isn't exactly compelling, but the characters are fun and the show has a light enough air about it to keep things interesting.
I continue to be pretty tired of the romantic stuff between Peggy and Sousa. Without beating a dead horse, the best part of it was Peggy challenging Sousa on his declaration that she needs to be dispassionate, and calling on him failing the same test with Wilkes not an hour earlier. If they're going to force these two characters with little-to-no chemistry together, at least they're not making Peggy into some goo-goo-eyed baby doll for him.
And Jack Thompson was pretty funny here! I've gone back and forth on the whole "battle for Thompson's soul" line, but Peggy's steadfast refusal to be blackmailed by him, and then admonition that he's better than that were the best exchanges in the episode this side of Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis. The Vernon Masters stuff hasn't seemed to go much of anywhere beyond this, but it worked well enough for what it was, and Thompson himself adds a spark to otherwise dull moments shared by Peggy and Sousa.
The scientist continues to be a fairly cliche, mildly annoying character, but he serves his purpose and the big special effects-fest in the desert was as shallow as it was entertaining, especially when Jarvis went full-on Wesley Wyndham Price on Whitney. The show at least maintains a sense of whimsy even if its storytelling and character beats are a bit all over the play.
Still, all-in-all, this may not have been Agent Carter's best outing, but it worked as a nice bit of movement from hear to the season (and sadly, probably series) finale.