Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 2)

The second season of the American television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D., follows Phil Coulson and his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and allies as they attempt to rebuild the organization after it was revealed to have been infiltrated by Hydra in the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2013). The season is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledges the continuity of the franchise's films and other television series. It was produced by ABC Studios, Marvel Television, and Mutant Enemy Productions, with Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jeffrey Bell serving as showrunners.
== Plot ==
In the second season, following the destruction of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Coulson becomes director of the organization and is tasked with rebuilding it while dealing with Hydra, a faction of anti-superhuman S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and a newly revealed superhuman race called the Inhumans.
== Episodes ==
# Shadows
# Heavy Is the Head
# Making Friends and Influencing People
# Face My Enemy
# A Hen in the Wolf House
# A Fractured House
# The Writing on the Wall
# The Things We Bury
# ...Ye Who Enter Here
# What They Become
# Aftershocks
# Who You Really Are
# One of Us
# Love in the Time of Hydra
# One Door Closes
# Afterlife
# Melinda
# The Frenemy of My Enemy
# The Dirty Half Dozen
# Scars
# S.O.S. Part I
# S.O.S. Part II
== Cast ==
=== Main ===
* Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson
* Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May
* Brett Dalton as Grant Ward
* Chloe Bennet as Skye / Daisy Johnson
* Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz
* Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons
* Nick Blood as Lance Hunter (first appearance)
* Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse (first appearance)
=== Recurring ===
* B. J. Britt as Antoine Triplett (death)
* Reed Diamond as Daniel Whitehall (first appearance) (death)
* Henry Simmons as Alphonso Mackenzie (first appearance)
* Kyle MacLachlan as Calvin Johnson (first appearance)
* Adrian Pasdar as Glenn Talbot (first appearance)
* Ruth Negga as Raina (death)
* Dichen Lachman as Jiaying (first appearance) (death)
* Blair Underwood as Andrew Garner (first appearance)
* Luke Mitchell as Lincoln Campbell (first appearance)
* Brian Patrick Wade as Carl Creel / Absorbing Man (first appearance)
=== Guests ===
* Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
* Jaimie Alexander as Sif
* J. August Richards as Mike Peterson / Deathlok
* Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
== Reception ==
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 91% approval rating with an average score of 7.7/10, based on 33 reviews. 
The episode "The Dirty Half Dozen" received a Primetime Emmy Awards nomination for Outstanding Special and Visual Effects
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