I’ve enjoyed Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD this year. In the first half of the season, the show made an effort to broaden its cast, introduce more and better action sequences, and scale down all the whiz-bang technology in order to make a few specific space-age gizmos really pop. They brought in Adrianne Palicki to play Bobbi Morse (aka Mockingbird), de-emphasized Chloe Bennet’s Skye, and did something interesting—finally—with the show’s resident techno-nerds Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons. They did all of this while keeping the show’s best character, Ming Na’s Agent Melinda May, right in the middle of the action.
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The guys at Marvel do excellent design work. |
ABC then ran an eight-part mini-season of Agent Carter over the mid-season break, and eh, I thought it was okay. It was better than re-runs, but if it started well, the ending turned decidedly anticlimactic. I was definitely ready for the real Agents of SHIELD to return this week.
*Warning – Mild Spoilers Below*