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AGENTS OF SHIELD
This season is just not what it should be. There have been a few episodes where I thought, “yes! Now we’re going to get down to it!” But “Paradise Lost”, while passable and actually useful, overall fell short.
Agents of SHIELD fails to impress with “Spacetime,” a flashy exercise in stylistics that does nothing for the season’s plot.
When this show is at its best it functions like mortar for the whole fictional universe. It’s the glue that holds all the pieces together. This episode was some hardcore industrial strength adhesive.
D’you ever watch something and think “I know exactly where this is going because they already greenlit a spinoff pilot”? That’s how Agents Of SHIELD‘s “Parting Shot” feels.
Agents of SHIELD offers politics, spies, and allies in “The Inside Man,” providing plenty of intrigue without being completely emotionally exhausting. “The Inside Man” offers a pause for character development before plunging head first into peril.
I’m delighted to say that Agents of SHIELD has hit the reset button with “Bouncing Back.” How aptly named! We’ve gone back to the start, but with many lessons learned.
Agents Of SHIELD treats its winter finale like a season finale. Blessings upon its head. If we have to wait three months for new episodes, a cohesive action-packed episode with a definitive ending is much better than sitting on a cliff-hanger for that long.
Do you ever think too much about a TV show because you love it a lot, so you end up making up little scenes in your head of what could happen? That’s called fan-fiction, and mine was oddly aligning well with last night’s Agents Of SHIELD.
Agents of SHIELD offers up “Many Heads, One Tale” like the magnum opus of a master weaver, taking the literally six or seven season plots and tying them all together so neatly it almost feels deterministic. This season is a hot mess, so I love that everything has finally come together, even if it does feel like a foregone conclusion.
“Chaos Theory” is actually perfect. Color me astonished. This episode, as seventh episodes of seasons tend to do, tied everything together with a great big bow and then knocked it out of the park.
Agents Of SHIELD returns to form with an action-packed hour including Lance Hunter in his finest form, a new “ship” in Bobbi and May, and a (mostly) unexpected final twist as the show reveals the man behind new Inhuman, Lash.
Agents of SHIELD, you were doing so well it was inevitable that you’d stumble and fall when I needed you most. That’s the way it goes. Outside reports claim this episode is a fascinating story of survival and shit. I can’t see the forest for the trees.
Well, that escalated quickly! Agents of SHIELD just took a plot that I was sure they were going to drag out through December and slammed it into high gear. In episode four. I was definitely not expecting that.
Agents of SHIELD is still going strong, hurray! “A Wanted (Inhu)man” runs on about three different tracks which don’t connect yet but promise to do so in the future.
This is the show at its best. This is what the series has been doing so damn well since Winter Soldier. Every time I start to trust that they can keep it up, I remember the beginning and weep, or they stumble and come up flat. But this week, man oh man. This week who cares where we started.
A flashy but hollow Season 3 premiere feels a bit like Agents of SHIELD is hitting a reset button. So color me disappointed.
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The Agents of SHIELD finale wraps up every plot thread to satisfaction and starts a few more, just like last season’s. I’m game.