It's going to be a big year for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with movies like "Ant-Man" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron" hitting movie screens around the world this summer - but, first, to start off 2015, "Marvel's Agent Carter" premieres on ABC this Tuesday, January 6!
The widely expected "Marvel's Agent Carter" premiere is only the first of the 2015 Marvel Cinematic Universe shows that will see the light of day this year, including at least two Netflix series - and, of course, the second half of the "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." second season, which will go on air in the first few months of the year.
According to the review from The New York Times - which, of course, got to see the show a few days before the "Marvel's Agent Carter" premiere this Tuesday -, the new show starring Steven Rogers/Captain America's girlfriend Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) actually has very little to do with the style and pacing of its predecessor, the Agent Phil Coulson-led (Clark Gregg) "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and more to do with shows like the British mysteries that PBS shows the American public.
The same review also called the latest series from Marvel a "conglomeration of nostalgia, postwar intrigue, comic-book science fiction and screwball comedy" - which doesn't sound at all bad for any television show, especially one with spies and superheroes!
In the meantime, AV Club reviewer Noel Murray says that the "Marvel's Agent Carter" premiere shows that the new series will actually be a sort of "retro-cool" thing based on great outfits and thrills that would best belong to pulp fiction - the book genre, that is, not the Quentin Tarantino movie.
Also, the Los Angeles Times praises the "Marvel's Agent Carter" premiere for the fact that it's set in the post-war years, saying there is no better time to have a female protagonist, as it was perhaps the start of the movement toward gender equality - or, at least, when women in the workplace really started to make a difference.
In any case, tonight will be a moment to tune in - the new show starring the World War II girlfriend of Captain America (Chris Evans) looks awesome all around!
