Marvel's Agent Carter season 2 is happening and we've got all the details on it right here...
NewsAgent Carter season 2 is a go at ABC! The network will bring Peggy Carter and her corner of the Marvel Universe back for another eight episodes. Agent Carterseason 2 will once again air during the Agents of SHIELD break, much like season one did.
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It looks like a significant chunk of the supporting cast from season one will be back for Agent Carter season 2. James D'arcy will return as Edwin Jarvis and Enver Gjokaj is back as Agent Sousa. No word yet on Dominic Cooper's Howard Stark. Cooper is busy working on Preacherfor AMC at the moment.
Entertainment Weekly also reports that Chad Michael Murray (Agent Jack Thompson), Bridget Regan (Dottie Underwood) and Lyndsy Fonseca (Angie Martinelli) are expected back, but they're still waiting on deals to be signed.
So what else can we expect from Agent Carter season 2?
Agent Carter Season 2 Story
We don't know that much at the moment, but there's an official synopsis, for starters:
“Peggy must now journey from New York City to Los Angeles for her most dangerous assignment yet,” where she “discovers new friends, a new home… and perhaps even a new love.”
The Los Angeles move is probably a good thing. Much of the Marvel Universe is already NYC-centric, and the New York sets on Agent Carter weren't the most convincing.
What else do we know?
There was also that teaser in the prison with Arnim Zola and Dr. Faustus/Fenhoff during the finale. It was a nice nod to some of the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Agents of SHIELD season 2. Showrunners Michelle Fazekas and Tara Butters had a little to say about the their ideas for Agent Carterseason 2.
Ms. Fazekas said:
"We’ve certainly been talking about what a second season would look like, and there’s a lot of different ideas, but I don’t think just because you see Toby Jones at the end of this season that, “oh, next season’s going to be about Toby Jones.” That was really just to tie it into the Winter Soldier program. That being said, the best ideas will win the day, so I think once we really get into talking about a second season… we have a lot of ideas, and what’s great about the structure of this show is, you can tell so many different stories and go so many different directions."
As for what might be in store for Peggy in season two, Ms. Butters added: "We’ve talked about exploring more of Peggy’s past; how did she end up working for the SSR, what drove her to that? Just exploring Peggy — that’s the great thing about television, it allows you to explore these characters more in-depth than you get in a movie."
The whole interview over at Varietyis illuminating, and you should give it a read.
Agent Carter Season 2 Production
It sounds like Agent Carter season 2 will have more episodes than the first season. Not too many more, though, so that's a good thing. Season one had a concise eight episode run, but we'll get a couple of more for season two. The news comes straight from the star of the show, Hayley Atwell, during a moment at Comicpalooza in Houston Texas when she was discussing this year's new location of Los Angeles.
"So it's going to be set in LA and with 10 episodes it's going to be a very glamorous, dark world of 1940s Los Angeles."
I'll gladly take an extra two episodes, especially if it's up to the quality level we saw during season one! (thanks to Digital Spy for the tip on that one)
