Wow seems like I am the only one who liked this season. I guess I was a fan of the lighter tone and goofiness. Given the ratings though I assume this show isn't coming back which is a shame since it's a fun show
I liked it too, very much. It's the only TV show I watched live each week. The main acting, dialogue, costumes and wit are all still top notch. Peggy, Jarvis, Howard, Ana, Whitney and Dotti are all brilliant characters and Thompson, Rose, Manfredi and even Cal were also enjoyable.
I think Peggy as a character missed more work frisson, not because she's a woman but because of her actions and choices. The show needed more Thompson or a figure like Vernon who maybe wasn't corrupt but just a bureaucrat or even more by the book superior who held her feet to the fire.
It just wasn't as focused as the first season and didn't have the same emotional resonance for me. I think the decision to do a love triangle or rather quad undermined the characters as well as the pacing of the show. It also didn't help that she was torn between two of the dullest characters who she has the least on screen chemistry with - male or female, friend or foe.
Interesting in the spoiler wrap up that the show runners say that
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1. Thompson isn't dead - just shot.
2. Sousa isn't necessarily the future Mr Peggy Carter
3. That file isn't just a fake - so the intimation that is that it might be Michael
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It's a shame if the ratings mean we'll never find out the resolution to any of this.