Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is an American television series, based on the famous Marvel Comics organization. It is produced by Marvel Television and airs on the ABC network, and is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, sharing continuity with the films in that franchise. The pilot, which was written by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen and directed by Joss Whedon, reached an audience of almost 12 million viewers.

Its first season is set after the events of The Avengers, Iron Man 3 and concurrently with the events depicted in Thor: The Dark World and of ''Captain America: The Winter Soldier. ''

On May 8th, 2014, it was renewed for a second season.

On September 9th, 2014, the DVD and Blu-Ray of season 1 will be avavilble.

Season One
Several months after the end of The Avengers, Phil Coulson, somehow alive and well after his apparent murder at the hands of the Asgardian Loki, puts together a small, highly trained, team of agents to tackle the cases that haven’t been classified yet, the new, the strange and the unknown. The team consists of straight arrow Agent Grant Ward, an expert in combat and espionage; pilot and martial artist Agent Melinda May; and brilliant if socially awkward scientists Agent Leo Fitz and Agent Jemma Simmons.

On their first mission, the team tracks down unregistered superhuman Mike Peterson, and end up discovering and recruiting a young computer hacker named Skye. With Skye's help, the team uncovers a plot run by a secret party that is using a new formula that combines elements of Extremis, gamma radiation, and Chitauri technology to create perfect super soldiers. The team confronts Peterson, the enemy party's newest guinea pig, at a train station and subdue him.

For the following months, the team is charged with various missions, such as recovering an 0-8-4 in Peru, rescuing scientist Franklin Hall, procuring an Asgardian weapon from a hostile group of Norse paganists, preventing the spread of an extraterrestrial infection, etc.

The biggest threat faced by the team is the Centipede Project, a mysterious operation being funded by a mysterious figure known only as the "Clairvoyant". The group is responsible for Mike Peterson's powers, and continually challenge Coulson's team, first through sleeper agents such as former S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Akela Amador, whom the team saves from the organization's control.

After a few close encounters, Coulson and his team recruit Peterson, who is now enrolled in S.H.I.E.L.D. as a specialist, in tracking down the leaders of the project. The resulting standoff results in both Coulson and Peterson being abducted by Centipede scientist Raina, whom the Clairvoyant tasked with discovering the secret behind Coulson's revival. During his time in captivity, Coulson gradually remembers the truth behind his resurrection: after his death, Nick Fury ordered Coulson to go through the T.A.H.I.T.I. Project, a top-secret operation where Coulson was subjected to numerous drugs and procedures that were so painfully endearing, that Coulson's memories had to be re-written so the trauma of the experience wouldn't be remembered. Not long after he learns this, his team comes to his aid and rescues him; Raina is incarcerated by high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Victoria Hand.

After a mission at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, the team learns that corrupt industrialist Ian Quinn is in league with the Clairvoyant and pursue him to Italy, where Skye discovers Peterson is in fact alive, but is now under the control of the Clairvoyant. Quinn shoots Skye, who is barely kept alive by her team. To save her life, the team joins up with Garrett's former commanding officer, John Garrett, and his trainee, Antoine Triplett. The group travels to the Guest House, the facility where Coulson was revived, and use drugs recovered from there to resesitate Skye. However, while there, Coulson discovers that the drugs actually originated from a dead alien organism, and fears for the effects the drugs will have on Skye.

While Skye is recovering, the team partakes in another mission where they team up with Sif to apprehend Lorelei, a rogue Asgardian war criminal with the ability to bend men to her will. After she is captured and taken back to Asgard, Coulson's team is called in to take part in an operation to finally locate the Clairvoyant. However, their efforts are hindered by Peterson, who is now going by the name of "Deathlok"; while all of this is happening, HYDRA's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. is exposed by Captain America, and S.H.I.E.L.D. falls into anarchy. Believing Coulson and his team to be HYDRA loyalists, Agent Hand attempts to terminate the team. The team is able to convince her otherwise, and in a major twist, Agent Garrett is revealed to be the true Clairvoyant, the financier behind the Centipede Project, and a HYDRA insurgent. With help from Agent Ward, who is also a HYDRA mole, Garrett escapes with Agent Hand's death.

Garrett frees Raina and Quinn, and together they resume their work on the Centipede formula. However, they require important information that has been blocked out by Skye, and Ward is sent in to manipulate her into opening the files for them. While most of the team is off rescueing Coulson's former lover, Audrey Nathan, from an escaped superpowered criminal, Ward abducts Skye with assistance from Deathlok. Teaming up with Maria Hill, Coulson and his team pursue Ward from Canada to California, rescuing Skye.

The team later trace Garrett and Ward to Cybertek, a technology corporation that was responsible for the upgrades given to Mike Peterson; it is also being manipulated by HYDRA. There, they uncover files that reveal Garrett to be the original Deathlok, and his enhancements are now causing him pain and organic failure, putting his life on the risk. He is only allied with HYDRA so he may use their resources to save his own life. Raina manages to do so by synthesizing the drug that was synethisized from the dead alien with Garrett's enhancements, further augmenting his strength and perceptions.

After Fitz and Simmons are nearly murdered by Ward, they are rescued by Nick Fury, who assists the team in taking down Garrett and Ward once and for all. After a climactic battle at a Cybertek facility, May subdues Ward while Garrett is killed by Coulson. Ward is detained, and Fury leaves Coulson to recreate S.H.I.E.L.D. as its new director before leaving to subdue the remaining HYDRA cells across the world. Deathlok, no longer bound to Garrett, departs to find a new purpose for himself.

At the end of the season, Raina visits a mysterious figure who is apparently Skye's father, informing him of his daughter's status.

Starring Cast

 * Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson
 * Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May
 * Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward
 * Chloe Bennet as Agent Skye
 * Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz
 * Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons

Supporting Cast

 * J. August Richards as Michael Peterson/Deathlok
 * B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett
 * David Conrad as Ian Quinn
 * Ruth Negga as Raina
 * Bill Paxton as Agent John Garrett/The Clairvoyant †
 * Saffron Burrows as Agent Victoria Hand †
 * Ajani Wrighster as Ace Peterson
 * Cullen Douglas as Edison Po †
 * Patton Oswalt as Agent Eric Koenig †/ Agent Billy Koenig

Marvel Cinematic Universe Guest Stars

 * Samuel L. Jackson as Director Nick Fury
 * Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill
 * Jaimie Alexander as Sif
 * Titus Welliver as Agent Felix Blake
 * Maximiliano Hernández as Agent Jasper Sitwell †

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Behind the Scenes

 * Joss Whedon stated: "It's new characters. It needs to be it's own thing. It needs to be adjacent, but you don't want to do a show where you're constantly going, 'Iron Man just left, but he was totally here a minute ago.' You want them to do their own thing. What does S.H.I.E.L.D. got that the heroes don't have? To me, it's that they're not superheroes. But they live in that universe. Even though they're a big organization, that makes them underdogs and that's interesting to me."
 * Joss Whedon talked about the tone of the series: "I’m excited about the show because it’s a very hopeful show. It’s not about murder, and it’s not about crime, and it’s not people looking into their own belly buttons. It’s about people who are trying to help each other, and that’s one of the things I loved about comic books. They had costumes and the villains were cool [but] they stood for something, and I like doing a show that does that. We’re trying very hard to be true to [Marvel's] ethos and also to the structure of their universe. So it is definitely a Marvel show."