{4.5\/5} “We want you to tell us about the day after you died.”<\/p>\n
Agent Coulson puts together a new team to deal with supernatural people and objects. Ward is a black ops specialist who’s used to working alone. May is also an experienced operative but for some reason doesn’t want to be in the field any more — she’s the pilot. Fitz and Simmons work together on the science and technology aspects that come up. Skye is a computer hacker and the newest member of the team.<\/p>\n
Agents of SHIELD<\/strong> season 1 just ended. It’s a spinoff of the movie The Avengers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n I like how there are mysteries built in right away — particularly the fact that some people know something about Coulson’s recovery that he doesn’t. He thinks he recovered in Tahiti but apparently that’s not true.<\/p>\n You had to watch Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/strong><\/a> right when it came out for the full effect — the events of the movie tie in with the events of this show. The only other time I can think of that that happened is with The X-Files<\/strong> and its first movie.<\/p>\n There was one surprise late in the season that I didn’t particularly care for*, but other than that I thought they kicked it up a notch in the latter half (or so) of the season.<\/p>\n My favourite characters are Fitz and Simmons, who are both brilliant and nice.<\/p>\n The exciting music is by Bear McCreary (the TV show Battlestar Galactica<\/strong>).<\/p>\n Clark Gregg reprises his role of Coulson from The Avengers<\/strong> and Ming-Na Wen (the TV show Stargate Universe<\/strong><\/a>) plays May.<\/p>\n Brett Dalton (the TV movie Killing Lincoln<\/strong>) plays Ward and Chloe Bennet (the TV show Nashville<\/strong>) plays Skye. Iain De Caestecker (Up There<\/strong>) plays Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge (The Thompsons<\/strong>) plays Simmons.<\/p>\n A few people we already know from the Marvel universe show up. Cobie Smulders reprises her role of Agent Hill from The Avengers<\/strong> in the pilot. Jaimie Alexander (Thor: The Dark World<\/strong><\/a>)\u00a0appears as Lady Sif. The ultimate guest star, Samuel L. Jackson (Jurassic Park<\/strong><\/a>) as Nick Fury, also drops by.<\/p>\n Ruth Negga (World War Z<\/strong><\/a>) plays Raina, one of their adversaries.<\/p>\n Guest stars include Ron Glass (the TV show Firefly<\/strong>),\u00a0J. August Richards (the TV show Angel<\/strong>), and Amy Acker (Much Ado About Nothing<\/strong><\/a>).\u00a0Bill Paxton (Aliens<\/strong><\/a>) shows up as an agent.<\/p>\n