Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Mikes Film Talk

Agents of SHIELD Among Us Hide: Melinda May is Back (Review)

ADRIANNE PALICKI, MING-NA WEN

Lance is in the doghouse in Agents of SHIELD this week. Among Us Hide has relegated to the bench and May is not best pleased with his actions and she is not alone. While everyone is concerned for Dr. Garner and annoyed with Hunter, the real surprise is that Lash has been uncovered and Melinda May is back. The reveal of the episode is that May’s fella is the big Inhuman monster that has been killing other Inhumans all over.

The team are still divided with how they feel about a number of things. ATCU being the main issue. Phil finally gets to see the facility and his visit is witnessed by Daisy, Mack and an “on the bench” Lance.

Simmons is still determined to go back and rescue Will (Dillon Casey) and Fitz, despite Lance’s warning about not helping the competition, looks ready to help. Although he is checking out the NASA employee’s background. Bobbi (Adrianne Palicki) shows off her Mandarin skills as she and May (Ming-Na Wen) track down Werner Von Strucker (played by the grown up Spencer Clark from Gladiator) and converse in the language to hide their intent.

With Hunter in trouble, he offers to drive for Daisy and Mack when she follows Banks (Andrew Howard), Rosalind’s right-hand man whom Daisy believes to be the Inhuman Lash. Coulson and Price (Constance Zimmer) continue to dance around each other as each begins to admire the other.

Someone breaks into Rosalind’s home and Phil tags along as she surveys the “damage.” He suspects her and also accuses the ATCU head, of trying to “make him like her” and he learns that Price is a huge Margaret Thatcher fan. Daisy, aka Tremors, is horrified at the facility where Inhumans are put in some sort of cage to be incarcerated. Mack and Lance agree with her assessment and all are concerned that Phil does not seem to be affected by the sight.

HENRY SIMMONS, CHLOE BENNET, NICK BLOOD — Mack, Lance and Tremors in the HTS Home Theatre van…

Von Strucker seeks help from Gideon Malick (Powers Boothe, who had a cameo in The Avengers) and the man turns young Werner/Alexander over to Grant Ward by telling the new HYDRA head where he can be found. Later, May and Bobbi attempt to rescue the lad but fail.

Not before Werner can tell Melinda May what really happened in the corner shop when they went to kill Andrew and not before Bobbi learns that she really is ready to be back in the field.

Lance and Daisy learn that they each have issues, in Hunter’s case it is anger he has problems with, and Phil is starting to like Rosalind. May is understandably upset to learn that Andrew is Lash and Lincoln gets in touch with Daisy.

Garner and Simmons share a moment and later the doctor quizzes “Tremors” on the whereabouts of Lincoln (Luke Mitchell). The big reveal at the end of the episode was only shocking for those not paying attention to the episodes thus far.

The fact that Garner survived his encounter with young Werner, who looked suitably freaked out as he cowered behind that car in front of the exploding shop, was a definite clue. As was the fact that Daisy has never been touched in all her encounters with Lash. While Banks was “Tremors'” favorite suspect, the man has no Inhuman DNA and she now knows it is not Price’s lackey, she does not yet know that Andrew Garner is the big bad monster that puts holes in Inhuman chests.

Malick makes it clear to Ward that he has chosen HYDRA as his “side” and it is nice to see Powers Boothe still plays a great bad guy. His character will be around for number of episodes and it will be interesting to see how Malick and Ward will get on.

After the swimming pool fight between Morse and Kebo (Daz Crawford), Ward seems to have lost his right-hand man but Bobbi has, as May suggested, learned from her experience with Grant and become stronger.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. airs Tuesdays on ABC and things look to be very interesting for May and the rest of the team. Tune in and see how Andrew Garner turning out to be Lash changes the dynamic now that Melinda May is back as well.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Laws of Nature (Review)

CONSTANCE ZIMMER

The season three opener of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “Laws of Nature” sees Fitz searching compulsively for Jemma, Hunter avoiding Bobbi and Phil getting used to his missing hand and arm, along with trying to remember that Skye is now Daisy. It also gives Coulson’s team a new “nemesis” in the shape of “Rosalind” (Constance Zimmer). The episode starts with a man surrounded by armed troops who melts anything he touches.

The poor chap is an Inhuman, but he does not know it yet. As the armed men and women move in to either capture or kill the man, Daisy, Hunter, Mack and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents step in and rescue him. The new inhuman, Joey (Juan Pablo Raba) is confused, scared and unhappy. Daisy attempts to calm him down.

Phil wants Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) to come in and Bobbi calls him. Leo is out of pocket; he is in Tangier, Morocco searching for a scroll that tells what the Monolith is. While Mack complains to Bobbi/Mockingbird (Adrianne Palicki) Fitz forces a terrorist to cough up the parchment. The scientist has hardened up since Jemma went missing, almost Bond-ian in his resolve and actions.

Daisy and Mack go to see Lincoln in the hopes he will help with the new Inhuman problem. Bobbi shows Phil where he can get in touch with his new “adversary” Rosalind.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Laws of Nature (Review)

As Lance and Rosalind verbally spar and show just how much they know about each other “read the homework,” Lincoln tells Daisy that he does not want to play. Both Coulson and Rosalind learn that neither of their agencies (Rosalind is the head of ACTU) are responsible for the dead Inhumans being found.

At the hospital, there is an unwelcome visitor, Lash, and it takes Daisy, Lincoln and Mack to turn him away from the intended task of collecting Lincoln. It appears that Lash is the one responsible for killing the Inhumans.

Phil and Lance escape from Rosalind’s team. Lash (Matthew Willig), the unwanted hospital visitor escapes after proving that he is more than a match for the three S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Hunter tells Bobbi that he will hunt down Ward and make him pay for what he did to her.

Fitz comes back and Phil tells him that they must come to grips with Jemma’s death. After he opens removes the parchment in the container, Leo learns that it has one word on it. The Hebrew word for death. He goes down to the monolith and screams at it. After the credits roll, we learn that Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) is trapped on some alien world and that something is hunting her.

LUKE MITCHELL, CHLOE BENNET, HENRY SIMMONS — At the hospital…

This proves that Fitz’s theory is correct, the Monolith is some sort of blackhole made solid that can “warp space/time” to another world. Sadly, he cannot prove it.

May is still gone and the team has gotten very small. Roles have changed, Skye is now Daisy – Inhuman. Fitz has recovered but now is frantic to get Jemma back. (Leo standing in front of the block of rock, pounding it with his fists and screaming at it to “Do something” is real tissue box material, or at the very least “lump in the throat time.”)

Mack may be the only one of the team who has not changed. He is still the voice of reason. It appears that Rosalind, the head of the ATCU (an organization so big that the president of the United States answers to her apparently) will be the thorn in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s side this season.

*Sidenote* Nice to see William Sadler (who plays the president in the news clip) looking a bit better than he did in the role of wagon master in “Z Nation” last week.

Phil has a “new arm and hand” with his old one kept in a glass case in the lab. The team have a new vehicle:

Phil: “Plus, this new aircraft can stay in the air much longer than the old plane. Days, really, so rapid response anywhere is… ”

Daisy: “You love your new toy, don’t you?”

Phil: “I very much love my new toy, but even with the mind-boggling range on this puppy…”

Joey, the latest Inhuman to be rescued…

There was not a lot of the usual humor in this episode although the exchange between Coulson and Rosalind on the subway was not without a few chuckles, especially when Phil questions where the ACTU leader has taken the conversation:

Wait, is this still cagey banter, or are we being honest all of a sudden?

Season there of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is continuing to entertain and enthrall. All the players keep the viewer tuning in for more. So many questions remain. When will May return? Will Fitz rescue Jemma? And most importantly why is Lash killing all the Inhumans?

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. airs Tuesdays on ABC. Tune in and see where the team are heading in an continued fight against HYDRA and now ACTU, or just to see how kick-a** Daisy has become since her transformation.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Writing on the Wall (Recap and Review)

Last week in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. former agent Grant Ward escaped and in this week’s episode, The Writing on the Wall, the team try to recapture Ward and Phil Coulson must track down a group of agents who were also injected with the alien GH.325 serum who are being killed off one by one. At the start of the show, a man enters an apartment with a woman that he has met. She says he looks familiar and as she attempts to figure out where they have met before, the man tells her that they do know each other. As he unbuttons his shirt, she sees the pattern tattooed on his chest, that matches the design that Coulson keeps carving and the tattooed man tells the woman that he will help her remember as she begins screaming.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 19 Amy Acker and Cobie Smulders Contains Spoilers

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 19 Amy Acker and Cobie Smulders *Contains Spoilers*

Rapidly approaching the end of season one, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in episode 19 brings on Angel star Amy Acker and it looks like next week will see the arrival of Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill. This will be another big screen cross over from the film verse of Marvel with the inclusion of Hill in next week’s episode. Acker will be playing Audrey, the former love interest of Agent Coulson, also mentioned in several big screen Marvel films.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Following and Fargo Catching Up and Intro

Television this week has been a sharp divide of action, pathos, and more action and slow paced oddness, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Following and Fargo fall into two distinct categories of excitement. S.H.I.E.L.D and The Following are moving on an ever increasing plot escalation where it looks like some series favorites may not make it through the season finale and Fargo looks infinitely interesting, strange and chaotic. In other words a lot like a Coen Bros feature film but on television.

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