Limerick Review: Agent Carter S1E8, Valediction

With theatre-goers en masse

Killed off before much time can pass,

The truth will soon out,

But Sousa the scout

Gets dosed with the angry gas.

Howard shows up, fashion'bly late,

To set the record vaguely straight,

And to prove he's an ace,

He helps out with the case,

And offers himself up as bait

But he falls into the baddies' snare,

And gets hypnotized at their lair.

Things start getting grim

As they hypnotize him

Into almost gassing Times Square.

But Peggy to action is spurred,

And the evil plot is deterred.

And she beats the toughs,

Not through fisticuffs,

But simply through well-applied words.

Throughout the tale we see conclude,

It kept us consistently glued.

And that had better please,

'Cause from the ending tease,

It looks like it's getting renewed.

Limerick Review: Agent Carter S1E7, Snafu

Now, Peggy's got reason to frown,
As her own friends take her downtown,
They press and they press
To get her to confess.
But she ends up dressing them down.

Jarvis comes, a story to tell,
And to get Carter out of her cell,
He goes off-book
To get her off the hook,
But it only lasts for a spell.

They quickly find the real mole,
And try to suss out what he stole,
But that's blown asunder
When the chief falls under
The doctor's hypnotic control.

But the enemy's very precise,
And give our heroes the slip twice,
There's happy delusion,
And widespread confusion,
And one heroic sacrifice.

The villains have one last hurrah,
That Kingsman has made a bit blah,
And their final jest
Turns out to be to test
A gas bomb in a cinema.

As we start to wrap up every thread,
And the villains turn out to be Red,
To solve all our queries,
It seems that the series
At last is coming to a head.

Limerick Review: Agent Carter S1E6, A Sin To Err

Carter and Jarvis get the names
Of several suspected dames
Who might have stolen the spec
To a bunch of Starktech,
So they have to find Howard's old flames.

While Carter takes her time to think,
The S.S.R. search for a link.
And none of them knows
He's right under their nose
And it's the creepy Russian shrink.

Then, after a witness confessed,
And they match a birthmark she possessed,
They think Carter's the spy,
So it all goes awry,
And they place Peggy under arrest.

While the roommate B-plot is fun,
Peg spends most of her time on the run,
But, since at end-of-day
She's captured anyway,
There's not much achieved when it's done.

And yet, let it be understood,
The ep does no less than it should.
What it's really about
Is to leave us no doubt
That Carter is just that damn good.

Limerick Review: Agent Carter S1E5, The Iron Ceiling

Though by no means was this show flopping,

It needed one more tasty topping:

For what's a spy show,

I'd like dearly to know,

Without any proper globe-hopping?

Russia thinks that its chance of winning

Is improved by kids fighting and spinning,

So they built a camp

To train each deadly scamp,

And we see the Black Widow's beginning.

Our heroes to Russia embark

To get some tech stolen from Stark.

They run into trouble,

'midst rubles and rubble,

But ultimately find their mark.

Dear earnest Sousa, meanwhile,

Has been sifting through Peggy's file,

Her work on the sly

Makes him think she's a spy,

And he starts acting strangely hostile.

But the real Russian agent's at home,

In the building from which Peggy roamed,

She invades Carter's room

While our girl's in gloom

And picks through it with a fine-toothed comb.

Reprising roles from World War II,

The Howling Commandos come through,

And those who might wanna

See Neal McDonough

With mustache again will thank you.

There are clever touches, alright,

Like some backstory given in flight,

Or that the kid slaves

Are taught how to behave

By reciting out lines from Snow White.

With little enough to regret,

This might be the best episode yet.

And each devotee

Will return next to see

How she deals with a domestic threat.