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Agent Carter Declassified 16: Peggy vs Whitney

We're back with a podcast on episode 3 of Agent Carter's second season, "Better Angels." In this episode, Peggy and company begin to deal with the fallout of the season premiere's explosive cliffhanger. Many significant glances are exchanged. We have Peggy and Jason's amorous glances, of course,... (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 15: Peggy Returns

Welcome to season two of Agent Carter, and correspondingly season two of Agent Carter Declassified! We cover the two-part season premiere of Agent Carter, "The Lady in the Lake" and "A View in the Dark," in which Peggy goes to L.A. and gets caught up in a murder mystery that seems straight ... (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 14: Jessica Jones

In honor of her smash hit Netflix series, we discussed the first season of Marvel's Jessica Jones and its importance not only in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also as a bold depiction of a complex lady protagonist. (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 12: Ant-Man

Marvel knows that a lot of people want more lady superheroes. The Ant-Man movie makes that clear. But Marvel still doesn't think that's a good enough reason to make a lady-led superhero film. (x)

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Mad Max: Fury Road - Innocuous Feminism

Because the feminism on display in Mad Max: Fury Road is so innocuous. The fact that it isn't radical--that it's so "duh" to anyone with half a brain and an ounce of empathy--leaves me bummed. It's like the world treating a fart like a god damned tornado. (x)

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Supergirl Trailer Super Deceptive: Not At All Girly

The Supergirl extended look released by CBS last night checks off those "chick flick" tropes like it shared a script with Saturday Night Live. But stop. Imagine the twee music isn't playing through her journey of self-actualization. Squint and picture her as a broad-chested fella. (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 12: Age of Ultron

It's episode 12 of Agent Carter Declassified. Jill and Alex chat Operation SIN, Peggy's Avengers 2: Age of Ultron cameo and the Black Widow "problem." (x)

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Ex Machina Review: Alex Garland Fucks With Everything

The viewer becomes Ava, and as she gains our humanity, we lend her ours. (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 11: The Winter Soldier

Peggy Carter may only have a cameo in Winter Solider, but her words resonate throughout the film. Alex and Jill talk that, Steve's struggle to acclimate and Alex's hatred of Iron Man 2 in this very special pre-hiatus episode of Agent Carter Declassified. (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 10: Valediction

Alex and I talk narrative pacing, Peggy's relationships, and how the show commits -- or fails to commit -- to its portrayal of Peggy's postwar (and post-Captain America) role. How does the show frame Peggy? And by contrast, how do audiences see her? How much of Peggy Carter is what the show gives us, and how much is what fans interpret (and in a sense create) for her? This led us to a fascinating tangent about queer subtext, authorial intent, and fanfiction. (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 9: SNAFU

Peggy's trapped! Not just in the SSR but by the preconceptions of the four major living men in her life! During this podcast episode, Alex and I talk about these four fellas, and how they each highlight certain aspects of sexism and/or feminist responses to sexism. Why does Jarvis "disgust" Dooley? Could feminism have helped Dooley with his marital troubles? How does Peggy disrupt narratives of patriarchy like the ones Thompson has invented for himself? Why is Sousa so upset with Peggy? We also discuss why Peggy was so unwilling to respond to Sousa's offers of friendship. Not that ladies need a reason to say no, of course, but could a combination of ableism, second-wave feminism and a lack of intersectionality be at play in Peggy's disdain? (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 8 - A Sin to Err

We talk the major queer subtext and sexism as a tool when Peggy's ego and the SSR finally catch up with her in the 6th episode of season 1, "A Sin to Err." (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 7 - The Iron Ceiling

But the turnabout in Iron Ceiling seems to undermine Agent Carter's themes of individual and institutionalized misogyny, and all the work and sacrifice Peggy has put into her pursuit of justice, both with the SSR and outside it, thus far. (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 6 - The Blitzkrieg Button

Jill Scharr and Alex Cranz talk Episode 4 of Agent Carter. Peggy's torn between loyalties towards friend and country, and we're weighed down by how WHITE the show is. (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 5 - Time and Tide

Alex Cranz and Jill Scharr talk episode 3 of Agent Carter. That means sexism in the work place, Peggy's terrible, no good, very bad day and Angie's crush. (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 4 - Bridge and Tunnel

Alex Cranz and Jill Scharr talk about Angie's love for Peggy and how Peggy's become the new Captain America, when discussing Episode 2 of Agent Carter. (x)

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Agent Carter Declassified 3 - Now Is Not The End

Peggy Carter is the first Marvel heroine to get an entire project devoted to her exploits and it shows in her wonderfully massive ego in the pilot episode of Marvel's Agent Carter. Jill and I weren't prepared for how massive her ego (and her hubris) is and it delights us to no end in this third episode of Agent Carter Declassified. When we're not discussing how perfectly and necessarily confident Peggy is we're gabbing about her clothes, her choice in friends and how she is definitely, positively, Marvel's answer to Batman. (x)