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. It is set after the events of The Avengers and during the events of Thor: The Dark World, and ''Captain America: The Winter Soldier. ''

Plot
Several months after the end of The Avengers, Phil Coulson, somehow alive and well after his apparant 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.

Starring Cast

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

Supporting Cast

 * J. August Richards as Michael Peterson/Deathlok
 * David Conrad as Ian Quinn
 * Ruth Negga as Raina
 * Cullen Douglas as Edison Po †
 * Saffron Burrows as Agent Victoria Hand †
 * Maximiliano Hernández as Agent Jasper Sitwell †
 * Bill Paxton as Agent John Garrett/The Clairvoyant
 * B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett
 * Elena Satine as Lorelei
 * Patton Oswalt as Agent Eric Koenig †

Marvel Cinematic Universe Guest Stars

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

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."

Episodes

 * 1) Pilot
 * 2) 0-8-4
 * 3) The Asset
 * 4) Eye-Spy
 * 5) Girl in the Flower Dress
 * 6) FZZT
 * 7) The Hub
 * 8) The Well
 * 9) Repairs
 * 10) The Bridge
 * 11) The Magical Place
 * 12) Seeds
 * 13) T.R.A.C.K.S.
 * 14) T.A.H.I.T.I.
 * 15) Yes Men
 * 16) End of the Beginning
 * 17) Turn, Turn, Turn
 * 18) Providence
 * 19) The Only Light in the Darkness
 * 20) Nothing Personal
 * 21) Ragtag
 * 22) Beginning of The End