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Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fifth season ends with a moving goodbye
There are plenty of shows that plan each season’s story as though it will be the last, but I can honestly say: Not…
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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With time running out, the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. face an impossible choice
It’s basically a twist on the classic philosophical experiment: Do you let someone you love die in hopes of saving…
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Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. gets properly apocalyptic and addresses Infinity War's Thanos
There are a lot of contentious debates between people who aren’t really listening to each other in “The One Who Will…
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An exciting but hectic Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. rushes towards an interstellar showdown
You know what they always say: Don’t kill a potential Destroyer Of Worlds if it’s just going to force someone else who…
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Damn, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. is getting really dark
The occasional tragic death is a fact of life for a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. When you’re risking your life on a near-daily…
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Heroes fall, villains rise, and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. fight robots and each other
The title of this episode, “The Honeymoon,” can’t help but feel ironic once you take into account the fact almost…
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A death-defying taste test can't quite anchor a middling Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
What would you do if you believed you were invincible? Would you enter an MMA fight? Go cliff diving? Start a really…
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28 years of Hydra history unfold on an MCU-packed Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
You’ve gotta be an awfully loyal Hydra agent to remain with the secretive organization in the present day. General Hale…
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S.H.I.E.L.D. goes straight for the heart with the year's best episode
“There’s no turning back.” It’s the kind of banal sentence you expect to hear in any action or drama-based TV show, and…
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Old friends and new enemies send Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. on a sky-high mission
When you’re on the hunt for gravitonium, it never hurts to bring a couple extra plastic boxes with you. You never know…
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Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. confronts fear, death, and a hopeful new beginning
For the 100th episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the show pulls out all the stops to try and deliver a…
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A shocking moment of violence puts Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. on a path to destruction
Good lord, that was upsetting. After all our heroes went though in the future, caught under the thumb of the Kree and…
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Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. rushes forward trying to assemble a way back
Well, that was unexpected. Not the reveal of who the Kree’s secret “seer” was, mind you, or how the team ended up…
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A messy Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. can't even deliver on the promise of a zero-gravity fight
Rare is the occasion when Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn’t have more than a few moving parts to juggle while driving the…
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Time travel musings muddy an overstuffed Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
“Remember, I tried to stop you,” Samuel Voss tells Daisy and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D., right after failing to kill her…
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Heart and a lot of humor help the Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. evade alien hunters
There’s never anything fair about bad people hurting good people. It’s not a particularly fun lesson, but it’s all Mack…
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Fights, action, and deaths spur Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. into high gear
Marvel’s Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns in the new year with some big surprises: the return of Fitz to the team, and…
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Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. goes 74 years back in time—to the present day
Leopold Fitz can take a lot of punishment, but there’s one thing you really don’t want to do around him: Criticize his…
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Alien antics prevent Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. from slowing down
As any science fiction nerd can tell you, there’s just something about setting stories in space that makes them more…
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Inhuman effort is spent pushing forward Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s quest for survival
When your job involves continually doing whatever it takes to save the world, it must get very difficult to maintain…