‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.12 Recap: “Never Trust Nice”
If your DVR recording of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ this week was pre-empted by news coverage of Tuesday’s political primaries, as happened in my region, don’t just shrug it off and assume there was no...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.13 Recap: “You Wanna Know the Key to a Good...
The last two episodes of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ have disappointed me quite a bit. This week’s in particular is basically a pointless waste of an hour that exists only to set up a spinoff show that,...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.14 Recap: “Hate’s a Good Motivator”
Judging by fan reaction, I seem to be in a minority for disliking last week’s episode of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ which (for the time being) wrote the Bobbi and Lance characters off the show. I liked...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.15 Recap: “Maybe Some Things Are Inevitable”
The ads for this week’s episode of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ played it up as a must-see game-changer, akin to the ‘Winter Soldier’ tie-in during Season 1. Strangely, the actual episode is nothing even...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.16 Recap: “You Didn’t Kill Him Hard Enough”
The frustrating thing about this season of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ is that, although I support and am genuinely interested in the direction the show’s storylines are heading, the individual episodes...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.17 Recap: “The Devil Promises Everything”
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ has so many twists and double-crosses this week that you’d almost swear it was a Shonda Rhimes show. (Rhimes certainly adores her shocking plot twists.) Fortunately, it’s not...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.18 Recap: “This Alien Creature Messed with the...
Actor Brett Dalton is simply not pulling off the evil-invincible-alien-god thing on ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’, is he? This week, he adopts a weird accent I don’t recall him having in other episodes for...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.19 Recap: “You Should Be Proud of What We’ve Become”
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ bites off more than it can chew this week with a storyline that may have seemed ambitious during the writing stages, but plays as embarrassingly cheesy in execution. In a...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.20 Recap: “This Is an End of the World Type Deal”
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ doesn’t always make an effort to tie its plot to the release of every new Marvel superhero movie, but the events of ‘Captain America: Civil War’ were apparently significant...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 3.21 & 3.22 Recap: “Together to the End”
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ closed out its very uneven third season last week with a supersized two-part finale. While I don’t think it necessarily ties everything together in the grand finish the show...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.01 Recap: “You Got the Devil Inside You Too”
From the coda at the end of last season’s finale, we already knew that some big changes were in store for ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ this year. What I didn’t realize is that the new season would serve as...
View Article‘Designated Survivor’ Pilot Recap: “You Are Now President of the United States”
One of the most-anticipated shows of the new TV season, ABC’s ‘Designated Survivor’ puts Jack Bauer… err, make that Tom Kirkman… in the White House as the new President of the United States after a...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.02 Recap: “A Team That Trusts Is a Team That...
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ adds a new cast member this week with a proven track record of being death to TV shows. This may not be a wise decision, if he sticks around for long. No disrespect to Jason...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.03 Recap: “There’s an Old Friend Back in Town”
Just the other day, I expressed my relief that ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ finally, mercifully killed off one of the most annoying characters on that show. Then what happens? He has to turn up ‘Agents of...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.04 Recap: “You Had to See That Coming”
The ghosts and the Ghost Rider are both back on ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ this week. I say this without much enthusiasm. Perhaps comic book fans can answer me this: Is Ghost Rider a ghost who rides, or...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.05 Recap: “Ghost Busted”
Marvel’s ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ features a prison break this week. And yet Wentworth Miller showed up on a DC Comics’ show instead on the same night. What a missed opportunity. The episode opens with...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.06 Recap: “We Are Goose Free”
My DVR programming guide described this weeks’ episode of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ as the “shocking origin story” of Ghost Rider. I’m not sure what’s supposed to be so shocking about it when the...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.07 Recap: “We’re into Nightmare Territory Here”
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ took a couple weeks off, and I guess I just assumed that the show was already on its midseason hiatus. I guess not. It’s back this week and, sadly, we’re still on this Ghost...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.08 Recap: “We Need the Big Guns”
It appears that ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ will divide the two halves of this season into distinct storylines. The mid-season finale finally (mercifully) brings an end to the Ghost Rider arc, at least...
View Article‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.09 Recap: “You Know How Boys Can Be with Their...
With the second half of this season, ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ drops Ghost Rider and starts a new storyline subtitled ‘LMD’. (That stands for “Life Model Decoy”… i.e. robots.) I support this decision,...
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