Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is an American superhero television series developed by Joss Whedon, in collaboration with Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D. The show is produced by Marvel Television, aired on the ABC network, and is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, sharing continuity with the films in that franchise.
The series revolves around the character of Phil Coulson, with Clark Gregg reprising the role. A pilot, written by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, and directed by Joss Whedon, was given the green-light in late 2012 and filmed in early 2013. The pilot was officially ordered to series on May 10, 2013, and premiered on September 24, 2013. On May 9, 2014, the show was renewed for a second season, alongside the new MCU show, Agent Carter. The third premiered on September 29, 2015 and concluded on May 17, 2016, with the fourth season premiering on September 20, 2016 and concluding on May 16, 2017. The fifth season premiered on December 1, 2017 and concluded on May 18, 2018. The sixth season premiered on May 10, 2019 and concluded on August 2, 2019. The seventh and final season premiered on May 27, 2020 and concluded on August 12, 2020.
==Premise==
===Season One===
The first season sees S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson putting together a small team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to handle strange new cases. They investigate Project Centipede and their leader, "The Clairvoyant", eventually uncovering that Project Centipede is backed by HYDRA, who has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.
===Season Two===
In the second season, after the destruction of S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson and his team look to restore trust from the government and public, while dealing with the much more powerful HYDRA organization and the revelation of the Inhumans. This is complicated with the appearance of another faction of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, who do not trust Coulson, or the types of missions his team is performing.
===Season Three===
In the third season, HYDRA is still a threat much more influential with the leader of HYDRA; Hive who took on the body of Grant Ward.
===Season Four===
In the fourth season, following the defeat of HYDRA and signing of the Sokovia Accords S.H.I.E.L.D. is legitimized too to the public with a new director since the public thinks Coulson is dead.
===Season Five===
In the fifth season, the team is transported to the future where Earth is destroyed and the rest of humanity is enslaved by Kree. They make it back to their time to prevent what they saw and succeed but at the cost of Fitz and Coulson.
===Season Six===
In the sixth season after Coulson's death, S.H.I.E.L.D. is rebuilding and are investigating strange events happening and are looking for Fitz. They come across a group of mercenaries led a man who looks like Coulson.
===Season Seven===
In the seventh and final season, Coulson and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are thrust backward in time and stranded in 1931 New York City. With the all-new Zephyr set to time-jump at any moment, the team must hurry to find out exactly what happened. If they fail, it would mean disaster for the past, present and future of the world.
==Cast and characters==
*Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson: An agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who oversees many of the division's field operations. The character will headline the series. At the 2013 South by Southwest festival, Joss Whedon confirmed that Coulson is alive in the series, despite his apparent death at the hands of Loki in The Avengers. When describing his character's return from the dead, Gregg said, "When Joss described to me the mystery… and the complexity and the unanswered questions about Phil Coulson standing there trying to deal with this, I found it so fascinating and so true to the world of the comics and mythology in general as I understand them that I was immediately in.
*Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May: An agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who is an ace pilot and weapons expert. The character was originally listed with the name Agent Althea Rice (a.k.a. The Cavalry) on casting sheets.
*Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward: A gruff, asocial manly man in his early 30s who is great at his job but not so great at getting along with his coworkers. Ward has a strong moral foundation and is not without his charm.
*Chloe Bennet as Daisy "Skye" Johnson / Quake: An Inhuman activist recruit, described as "bubbly and goofy" but "also warm, edgy, and witty." She is in her late 20's and can more than hold her own in any situation.
*Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz: An agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who specializes in weapons technology.
*Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons: An agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who specializes in life sciences (both human and alien) and is the close partner of Agent Leo Fitz.
*Nick Blood as Agent Lance Hunter: A mercenary before agreeing to join S.H.I.E.L.D.
*Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse: Hunter's ex-wife and an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. who spent time undercover within HYDRA.
*Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" MacKenzie: A S.H.I.E.L.D. mechanic with a distrust of the alien and superhuman.
*Luke Mitchell as Lincoln Campbell: an Inhuman S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and a member of the Secret Warriors.
*John Hannah as Dr. Holden Radcliffe: a former GT Agrochemical researcher whose theories and experiments on transhumanism got him fired from the company.
*Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Agent Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez: A Colombian Inhuman who can move at a super speed for a beat of her heart, before returning to the point she started moving from. She reluctantly joins S.H.I.E.L.D. and becomes a part of the Secret Warriors.
*Jeff Ward as Deke Shaw: Deke is the ultimate survivor and roguish scavenger, the guy who can get people what they need, but at a price of his asking. With his sharp mind and quick wit, he is both a real asset in a tight spot and a hard man to trust.
==Episodes==
Season	Season	Episodes	Originally aired 	Originally aired
Season	Season	Episodes	Season premiere 	Season finale
 	1 	22 	September 24, 2013	May 13, 2014
 	2 	22 	September 23, 2014	May 12, 2015
 	3 	22 	September 29, 2015	May 17, 2016
 	4 	22 	September 20, 2016	
May 16, 2017
 	5 	22 	December 1, 2017 	May 18, 2018
 	6 	13 	May 10, 2019 	August 2, 2019
 	7 	13 	May 27, 2020 	August 12, 2020
==Production==
On August 31, 2009, the Walt Disney Company announced that it was purchasing Marvel Entertainment for around $4 billion. Disney CEO Bob Iger said on a conference call that Disney intended to incorporate the Marvel properties across all of its media platforms, including television. In June 2010, Marvel announced that it had hired Jeph Loeb as president of Marvel Television, a newly created division of Marvel Entertainment.
In an interview the day after his appointment, Loeb stated that Marvel intended to continue producing animated television series, and that "there's a brand new division that we'll do with live action, where we're working in partnership with ABC and ABC Family to find the right properties, the right characters, and develop them. To start, we will be exploring the one-hour drama field similar to the shows that I mentioned that I've worked on, like Smallville and Lost." In the following months, various pilots based on comics from Marvel's catalog went into development, including AKA Jessica Jones, based on the comic book series Alias, and a series based around the Hulk, though none were given the green-light.
In July 2012, Marvel Television entered into discussions with ABC to do a new show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though at that point it was undecided what the show would be. It was described as "'a kernel of an idea' with a number of scenarios being explored, including a high-concept cop show. In August 2012 it was announced that The Avengers director Joss Whedon, creator of cult hit shows, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, would be involved in the show's development. A few weeks later, ABC ordered a pilot for a show called S.H.I.E.L.D.; the pilot was to be written by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, directed by Joss Whedon, and executive produced by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell, and Jeph Loeb. Jed Whedon, Tancharoen, and Bell will serve as showrunners if the pilot goes to series.
Joss Whedon stated that the show would be autonomous from The Avengers, saying "It's gotta be a show that works for people who haven't seen the Marvel movies. It will please Marvel fans, I think. In a September 2012 interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, Whedon reiterated that sentiment, going on to say "It's new characters. It needs to be its own thing. It needs to be adjacent [to The Avengers]... What does S.H.I.E.L.D. have that the other superheroes don't? And that, to me, is that they're not superheroes, but they live in that universe. Even though they're a big organization, that lack of powers makes them underdogs, and that's interesting to me. Whedon explained that while the show would involve people with powers and the spectacle of science-fiction storytelling, it would focus on "the peripheral people ... the people on the edges of the grand adventures.
In January 2013, ABC president Paul Lee said that the story takes place after the events of The Avengers. Filming of the pilot episode began on January 22, 2013 and concluded on February 11, 2013. On April 6, 2013 ABC announced that the show would be titled Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. On May 10, 2013, ABC announced that it had officially picked up the series. In Spain the series' premiere is the 11th of October of 2013.
In 2016, it was announced at the San-Diego Comic-Con the show would be renewed for a fourth season, featuring the popular character Ghost Rider. In December towards the mid-season finale the show would center on the Life Model Decoy 'Aida' as the main villain. It was also announced that a new digital series would be produced starting December 13, with the Inhuman agent Elena 'Yo-Yo' Rodriguez as the main focus.
===Casting===
In October 2012, a casting sheet for five lead roles was sent out. Later that month, at the New York Comic Con, Joss Whedon, Kevin Feige, and Clark Gregg announced that Gregg would be reprising his role as agent Phil Coulson in the series' pilot, and would "headline" the series. Toward the end of the month, actress Ming-Na Wen was cast as agent Melinda May. In November 2012, Elizabeth Henstridge and Iain De Caestecker were cast as agents Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz, respectively. Later in November, newcomer Brett Dalton was cast as agent Grant Ward. In December 2012, Chloe Bennet was cast as Skye, the sixth and final series regular. In January 2013, Cobie Smulders, who played agent Maria Hill in The Avengers, said that her character may make an appearance in the show and that her commitment to How I Met Your Mother would not prevent her from participating. J. August Richards, one of the stars of Whedon's 1999 series Angel, was also cast in the pilot, though his role was not specified.
==Broadcast==
CTV announced in June 2013 that they hold the broadcast rights for Canada, and the series debuted on September 24, 2013, being simulcast with the American broadcast. On August 22, 2013, it was confirmed that Channel 4 would air the show in the United Kingdom, and it premiered on September 27, 2013. In Australia, the show premiered on Channel 7 on October 2, 2013, with the broadcast of the first two episodes.
==Reception==
Before the premiere, the entire pilot was screened at San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2013, and was met with a very positive reaction from the crowd. Critically, the initial screening of the pilot was met with mostly positive reviews. As of September 28, 2013, based on the pilot, the first season has received positive reviews from some critics, and received a Metacritic score of 74 out of 100, based on 32 reviews.
IGN gave the pilot an 8.5 out of 10, saying it "quickly hits the right notes to firmly show how it exists on the ground level" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The New York Times Brooks Barnes felt the storyline in the pilot was hard to follow at times, and did not like the thick accents of De Caestecker and Henstridge. He also added that "what goes over well at Comic-Con does not necessarily work in the real world," especially on a network with "Scandal moms and Dancing With the Stars grandparents."
Entertainment Weekly's initial reactions felt that "if everything that made the show appealing—its continuity with Marvel Cinematic Universe, its continuance of the The Avengers storyline, and Whedon's return to television—was stripped from it, the show still worked. However, they also questioned if the show was accessible enough to attract a wider audience". Variety's Brian Lowry felt that the "pilot picks up where Avengers left off, but doesn't pack quite the same punch," adding that the banter "occasionally feels a little precious and clunky".
Jim Steranko, the artist and writer who worked on the "Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." comic books, was critical of the pilot episode, lamenting that "...the show had no menace, no tension." For the second episode, Steranko said that it was "...too unfocused to be satisfying," but praised Jackson's cameo as Nick Fury as "...an electrifying reminder of what the series could and should be."
==Ratings==
In the United States, the premiere episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. earned a 4.7/14 rating in the 18-49-year-old demographic, with 12.12 million total viewers, making it the biggest network drama debut in four years. In the United Kingdom, the debut episode was Channel 4's biggest drama launch of the year, averaging 3.1 million viewers, or a share of 14.2 percent of people watching TV in the UK at the time. In Canada, the first episode premiered on CTV to 2.706 million viewers, earning the third highest viewership for the week on the network. The Channel 7 premiere in Australia was watched by 1.3 million viewers, the top show of the night.
==Awards==
Year	Award 	Category 	Recipient 	Result
2013	Critics' Choice Television Awards 	Most Exciting New Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	rowspan="2"
2013	Television Critics Association 	Most Promising New Fall Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2014	People's Choice Awards 	Favorite Actress in a New TV Series 	Ming-Na Wen 	rowspan="8"
2014	People's Choice Awards 	Favorite New TV Drama 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2014	Visual Effects Society Awards 	Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program 	"Pilot" 	
2014	Golden Reel Awards 	Best Sound Editing – Short Form: Music 	"Pilot" 	
2014	Satellite Awards 	Best Television Series or Miniseries 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2014	Saturn Awards 	Best Network Television Series Release 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2014	Online Film & Television Association Awards	Best Sound in a Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2014	Online Film & Television Association Awards	Best Visual Effects in a Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2014	Teen Choice Awards 	Male Breakout Star 	Brett Dalton 	
2014	Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Special and Visual Effects 	"T.A.H.I.T.I." 	rowspan="3"
2015	People's Choice Awards 	Favorite Network Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2015	Visual Effects Society Awards 	Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2015	TVLine's Performer of the Week 	Performance in "Melinda" 	Ming-Na Wen 	
2015	Kids' Choice Awards 	Favorite Family TV Show 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	rowspan="7"
2015	Kids' Choice Awards 	Favorite TV Actress 	Chloe Bennet 	
2015	Saturn Award 	Best Superhero Adaptation Television Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2015	PRISM Awards 	Television Drama Multi-Episode Storyline – Mental Health	Fitz's storyline from "Shadows" to "The Things We Bury"	
2015	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Fantasy/Sci-Fi Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2015	Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Special and Visual Effects 	"The Dirty Half Dozen" 	
2015	Online Film & Television Association Awards	Best Visual Effects in a Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2015	TVLine's Performer of the Week 	Performance in "Laws of Nature" 	Iain De Caestecker 	rowspan="2"
2015	TVLine's Performer of the Week 	Performance in "4,722 Hours" 	Elizabeth Henstridge 	
2016	Kids' Choice Awards 	Favorite Family TV Show 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	rowspan="7"
2016	Kids' Choice Awards 	Favorite TV Actress – Family Show 	Chloe Bennet 	
2016	Kids' Choice Awards 	Favorite TV Actress – Family Show 	Ming-Na Wen 	
2016	Irish Film & Television Awards 	Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama Television 	Ruth Negga 	
2016	TVLine's Performer of the Week 	Performance in "Parting Shot" 	Adrianne Palicki 	
2016	Saturn Awards 	Best Superhero Adaptation Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2016	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice TV Villain 	Brett Dalton 	
2016	California on Location Awards 	Location Manager of the Year – One Hour Television 	Justin Hill 	
2017	TVLine's Performer of the Week 	Performance in "Broken Promises" 	Henry Simmons and Natalia Cordova-Buckley 	rowspan="16"
2017	TVLine's Performer of the Week 	Performance in "Hot Potato Soup" 	Patton Oswalt 	
2017	Golden Reel Awards 	TV – Short Form – Dialogue/ADR 	"Deals With Our Devils" 	
2017	TVLine's Performer of the Week 	Performance in "Self Control" 	Elizabeth Henstridge and Iain De Caestecker 	
2017	Kids' Choice Awards 	Favorite Family TV Show 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2017	TVLine's Performer of the Week 	Performance in "The Return" 	Mallory Jansen 	
2017	Saturn Awards 	Best Superhero Adaptation Television Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2017	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Action TV Show 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2017	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Action TV Actor 	Gabriel Luna 	
2017	Dragon Awards 	Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2018	TVLine's Performer of the Week 	Performance in "The Last Day" 	Ming-Na Wen 	
2018	Visual Effects Society Awards 	Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode 	Visual effects team for "Orientation, Part 1" 	
2018	Saturn Awards 	Best Superhero Television Series 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2018	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Action TV Show 	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 	
2018	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Action TV Actress 	Chloe Bennet 	
2019	Teen Choice Awards 	Choice Summer TV Actress 	Chloe Bennet 	
==Trivia==
*Joss Whedon stated: "It's new characters. It needs to be it's own thing. It needs to be adjacent, but you don't want to do a show where you're constantly going, 'Iron Man just left, but he was totally here a minute ago.' You want them to do their own thing. What does S.H.I.E.L.D. got that the heroes don't have? To me, it's that they're not superheroes. But they live in that universe. Even though they're a big organization, that makes them underdogs and that's interesting to me."
*Joss Whedon talked about the tone of the series: "I'm excited about the show because it's a very hopeful show. It's not about murder, and it's not about crime, and it's not people looking into their own belly buttons. It's about people who are trying to help each other, and that's one of the things I loved about comic books. They had costumes and the villains were cool but they stood for something, and I like doing a show that does that. We're trying very hard to be true to Marvel's ethos and also to the structure of their universe. So it is definitely a Marvel show."
*This is the longest running television series within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
*Clark Gregg is the only member of the cast, to appear in every episode of the series.
**Chloe Bennet comes in second, only being absent for one episode, "The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D".
*Many original elements of the series, were adapted into the mainstream Marvel Comics, including: Melinda May, Grant Ward, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Raina, Jiaying, Gordon, Katya Belyakov, and L.O.L.A..
**Other aspects that were exclusive to the series, were changed within the comics, to match the show's continuity, including Quake's nickname Skye, and her origin as an Inhuman.
*Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was Stan Lee's final live-action Marvel work; concluding two years after his passing in which he was credited as an executive producer.
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