How Marvel TV Can Revive Agent Carter

The show had a great deal of potential but there always seemed to be a level of uncertainty on how it should progress. Instead of being the show that brought us to S.H.I.E.L.D. through the stories of Peggy Carter, as was originally conceived, we were given a series that, while entertaining and gives us more of Hayley Atwell, became a procedural of sorts with one over-arching plot thread to save the world. This led the series to a rut that it couldn’t get out of without a thematic, narrative evolution.

Agent Carter had the potential to create dynamic and in depth storylines that could bleed into the MCU of today.  While Marvel TV may not want to overshadow Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., they didn’t have to. Let one inform the other, the past informing the future and even open the door for some very fun episodes of certain characters being sucked back in time (given that that element is going to be introduced into the MCU eventually **cough Time Stone cough**) to a place where the legends of Peggy Carter’s S.H.I.E.L.D. are thrown into a world with Coulson’s band of super-secret spies. A world where Peggy Carter’s lost love is alive and well.

Marvel TV, if you are reading this, I don’t want credit (well maybe a little), I just want the Agent Carter we were promised, and the Peggy Carter we deserved.

This is the show we wanted. Make this show, and people will watch. Give us the Agent Carter worthy of the MCU. Give us the series that Hayley Atwell, and her considerable talent, deserves. She hasn’t given up, continuing to push for its revival, and neither should Marvel. As she Hayley Atwell said herself while recently speaking with reporters after a panel at the 2016 TCA Summer Press Tour for her new ABC series Conviction:

“I don’t feel like I’ve said goodbye to her. She does still seem to live on a lot for fans. Marvel is still such a big part of my career and I suppose my professional family, but I would absolutely not rule out the idea of going back to Peggy at some point, seeing her in other avenues. I love her and I hope that she has a life elsewhere in another time.”

What do you all think?  What direction should the show take if it were to be revived?

Marvel’s Agent Carter seasons 1 & 2 is currently available on iTunes. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 returns to ABC in a new time slot at 10:00 EST on September 20th.