by Vi Burgess & Haley Mitchell, assistant editors

“What would Cap say if I left his best girl behind?

He’d say ‘Do as Peggy says’.”

Take all of your negative thoughts about recent, poorly-written Marvel flops like “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and the “Thor” sequel and put them out of your mind. Marvel has redeemed itself with “Agent Carter.”

Directly after the events of “Captain America: the First Avenger,” Cap’s more-competent sweetheart Peggy Carter struggles to integrate herself back into the workplace. She’s working in the SSR (the Strategic Science Reserve, kind of like the CIA) in New York, where she is tasked with little more than brewing the office coffee and taking lunch orders. The premise is that Howard Stark (remember him?) asks her to help recover his inventions, even though the very agency Peggy works for strives to find Stark guilty of selling his bad-baby gizmos to enemies.

I (Haley) must admit I was skeptical after dragging myself through two seasons of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” But everything is as close to historical accuracy as one can get in a universe in which the gods of Asgard and genetic experiments like Hulk exist side by side. For instance, the costumes are so painfully on point, like Carter’s killer lipstick. And the series also shows the transition between American enemies — Captain America deals more with Hydra and the Nazis while Peggy and the SSR find themselves in the midst of the Cold War. The show does have one major flaw that is, unfortunately, partially historically accurate — a lack of people of color as major characters.

Probably the best part about “Agent Carter” is the fact that Marvel doesn’t fall into the traps of the YA franchises with female leads. Peggy Carter isn’t just clever or physically powerful or seductive, like most one-dimensional characters on-screen (see also: the list of female characters who fail the “sexy lamp” test). She’s smart enough to outwit the entire SSR, strong enough to knock a bunch of them out (and these are men at their physical peak we’re talking about), and she uses her “feminine charms” to get what she wants. She’s not a social recluse either — she forms friendships with other, more “traditional” girls that she lives with, and guess what? Each episode passes the Bechdel test. Every single episode. That’s more passes than “Harry Potter” and “Lord of the Rings.”

Basically, watch it because it’s feminist as heck. But also because the action sequences are perfect, the cinematography is meticulous, the color correction is A+ but not overdone, and the writing is fantastic and filled with clever quips and references to more HISTORICALLY ACCURATE things.

In our honest opinion, Marvel should stop wasting its time with drawn-out “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” before their precious sitcom experiment gets moved to Friday. “Agent Carter” is fast-paced, with multiple interlocking ideas and plots and just the right amount of sass to keep the show interesting and entertaining.

To binge-watch the entire first season of “Agent Carter” and more (YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO), go to abc.com.