Sure, we have lots of super smart, proactive ladies populating T.V. presently-Kerry Washington’s “Olivia Pope” in Scandal, Archie Panjabi’s “Kalinda Sharma” on The Good Wife, those sassy smart young women on The Big Bang Theory-but add in a touch of the superhero and period piece couture and any fantasy wardrobe-r is bound to salivate. Hayley Atwell, who we first met as Peggy Carter in the superhero period movie Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger, will be working for SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve) while managing her covert ops on this new show. ABC promises the series will be a mix of “Indiana Jones” and “Alias” with action swift and intricate and worth tuning in for.
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Hayley’s accent, her quick wit, and of course the 1940’s glamour makes Peggy Carter so sublimely neat for us all, especially those of us who love dress-up. Red fedora, skirt suits, evening gowns, Giovanna Ottobre-Melton’s costume designs for Carter are sure to play perfectly across the 8 show series premiering this first full week of Janurary. Though not as overtly ‘cosplay’ as a Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman back the day (a series that started as a period piece as well) the clothes, attitude and adventuring are sure to be similar, with a female protagonist in the lead.
In addition to appearing in both Captain America films and on the Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD series Atwell as Carter also enjoyed a Marvel ‘One-Shot’ show. The response to that one shot at Comic Con led to the creation of the new Agent Carter show. What happens to the character beyond the 8 shows, if she will appear again on T.V., or in subsequent super hero movies, time will tell of course.
For now we have another fashionably formidable female to feast our fandom on.
