Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Powers Up
The new season of the hit show is back and better than ever
Story by Cory Jaynes
Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” returned for its third season this Tuesday on ABC. The show is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is the home of “The Avengers” and “Guardians of the Galaxy”, and stars Clark Gregg’s Agent Coulson, and Chloe Bennet’s Daisy Johnson, also known as the comic book character “Quake.” The new season focuses on the search of new Inhumans, a race of altered human beings that were the result of experiments by the extraterrestrial race who acquired superhuman abilities through a process known as Terrigenesis. At the end of the last season,the spread of terrigen, a natural mutagen that has the ability to alter Inhuman biology, that were dispersed via fish oil pills had an affect on many of the Inhumans.
The season premiere began with Joey, a new Inhuman who is a self-described “meltdown,” as a result of his new powers and is saved from an unknown organization by S.H.I.E.L.D. and their rocket elevator. Throughout the episode, we’re reintroduced to the cast of characters from previous seasons and while many of the members remain on the team, Ming-Na Wen’s, Agent May, is suspected to have abandoned the team and Elizabeth Henstridge’s, Agent Simmons, disappeared last season after being consumed by an alien artifact, called the Monolith. Individually, the biggest changes came from Adrianne Palicki’s, Agent Bobbi Morse, who went from being a field agent to biologist and Iain De Caestecker’s, Agent Fitz, who is on the hunt for a way to save Simmons, his love interest, from the Monolith.
Overall, the episode is strong and gives a good dose of what is expected to be a wider use of powers in the show and will shed light on Inhumans in a way we’ve never seen before. While S.H.I.E.L.D.’s arch-nemesis, Hydra, doesn’t appear in the episode itself, we are introduced to a new secret organization, whose name has yet to be revealed. This organization doesn’t exactly see eye-to-eye with S.H.I.E.L.D.
We are also briefly introduced to Lash, an Inhuman hunting other Inhumans, who avid-comic readers will be familiar with. Lash is portrayed by Matt Willig and looks like a nightmare-fueled Sonic the Hedgehog. The episode ends with the revelation of Simmon’s location, which is an alien planet, where she seems to be stranded. So who knows? Maybe we’ll get cameo appearance from Chris Pratt’s, Starlord.
“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” airs on Tuesday nights at 9 p.m., regardless of timezones, on ABC.
