SummaryAgent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) leads a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents: Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen), Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker), Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), and new recruit Skye (Chloe Bennet) to investigate and protect the world from the unknown.
SummaryAgent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) leads a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents: Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen), Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker), Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), and new recruit Skye (Chloe Bennet) to investigate and protect the world from the unknown.
After four seasons and a universe of ideas, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is still doing what it does best. It’s constantly shifting the goal posts and surprising its audience with delightful twists and turns, never taking its fanbase for granted or getting too caught up in what’s already worked.
After the awesomeness that was Season 4, it was hard to imagine season 5 can beat **** in some ways it doesn't but in others it does, this season was rather uneven and not as excellently paced as the previous one, but it also had some of the best episodes of the show, it was really intense, it handled the subject of time travel in a unique way and I loved every bit of it, it had some great villain centric episodes that I loved, we haven't had one of those since forever! the 100th episode was surprisingly small scale (for AoS that is) but it worked as a love letter to long time fans and I cried my eyes out during it! the themes touched on in Fitz's storyline were very **** one downside I think to this season was me feeling the need to stay away from the fandom as they were being rather whiny, it's ok if the characters have conflict! them being unhappy isn't bad writing, come on!
Anyway, I loved every bit of this season, and look forward to season 6 being even better!
After a poor fourth season, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D is back with an awesome twisted and thrilling fifth season. The story lines undergo heavy ups and downs, even heavier ones than in previous seasons. Placed in various settings and situations, the characters undergo very deep emotional developments, which greatly effect the story in the best way possible. Also the new characters, which are added to the cast, surprise thorugh uniqueness. The main cast characters are faced with (un)foreseen consequences of their actions form previous seasons. Season five also convinces through grabbing up and processing a lot of loose strings and effects of character development form all previous seasons. Also, in this season, there is much more than the ususal tie in to the major MCU movie.
A really great season that acts as a finale of sorts, even though this is cut short with the knowledge that there will be a sixth and final season. Who got snapped?
This season felt like the team was facing off threats lighter than before, which they could handle just fine. But the thing is that because of the circumstances and because of the team's previous traumatic experiences, it's harder and harder to face off any threat. So it focuses more on character improvement as well, as world ending threats. The sound and visual effects are really sloppy and poor just as before, but the actors compensate for this very well, giving over the tension, and reflecting that over the screen. The writing was very basic and lazy just as before, and the directing style was overly casual. There is one major plot whole which I don't get and don't agree with, therefore it's gonna piss off a lot of the audience. But it's interesting enough to keep the general audience engaged over all the season and also keeps the tension going with new twists and turns. Also story-wise got somewhat more complicated than before adding time travel to the formula. But also with that 'end season threat' (not going to spoil it) should have easily got to the radar of the Avengers and they would have picked up where SHIELD had left off. But I guess they forgot it's the same universe. Overall it's an above average season (and serial as well), but it's starts to get forced, taking in to consideration how much the team has already gone through and their tiredness is felt in their role as well. Also keeping count of the retirements, it has to stop cranking out new seasons. Stop while it's still good, don't force it to the grave.