Beginning of the End
- Episode aired May 13, 2014
- TV-PG
- 44m
IMDb RATING
9.0/10
4.8K
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Dark secrets are revealed as Coulson and his team put everything on the line to stop Garrett and the forces of HYDRA.Dark secrets are revealed as Coulson and his team put everything on the line to stop Garrett and the forces of HYDRA.Dark secrets are revealed as Coulson and his team put everything on the line to stop Garrett and the forces of HYDRA.
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- TriviaThe outfit Nick Fury wears is exactly the same outfit he is seen wearing in the last scene of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)--sunglasses, a beanie, and a leather jacket, and hoodie instead of his usual eye patch and trench coat.
- GoofsFitz tells Simmons that he broke his arm in the same place as he did in '2nd grade' , but Fitz is Scottish and in Scotland the schooling system doesn't go up in grades but instead calls each year 'primary one , primary two , etc' ,the Scottish equivalent to '2nd grade' is primary four so he would have never been in 'second grade' and neither would Simmons as she is from England and would have been in 'year three' instead of 'second grade'
- Quotes
John Garrett: [Flexing his new Dethlok-tech robotic body] There's a reason why they say, "cut off the head." Now I'll be unstop...
John Garrett: [gets vaporized by Coulson]
Phil Coulson: [Holding the "0-8-4", the object that turned out to be HYDRA technology powered by Tesseract energy] Hey, guys! I found it. Told you it'd be in here.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Satisfying Deaths of Hated MCU Characters (2021)
- SoundtracksAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Theme Song
(uncredited)
Written by Bear McCreary
Featured review
Season One Review
I watched "Agents of Shield" at the time it aired, all apart from the seventh and final season, which was on my list, but I hadn't gotten around too. In fact, it had been so long I decided to restart the series from scratch and watch it all again, starting with this first run, which originally aired on Channel Four in the UK, back in 2013.
Resurrected following his death at the hands of Loki ahead of the Battle for New York, Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) is tasked with putting together a small team to react to unusual behaviour, starting with Mike Peterson (J August Richards) who has superhuman strength from the extremis in his system. Coulson recruits specialists Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) and Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) and scientists Leo Fitz (Iain de Caestecker) and Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) but it's a hacker and activists Skye (Chloe Bennet) who is able to get them close to Peterson.
Generally, I enjoyed this season of "Agents of Shield" more than I thought I would. I forgot how integral it felt to the MCU at this time, with the plots of "Iron Man 3" and "Thor: The Dark World" having a factor on the plot of the series. The whole season shifts though on the events of "Captain America: The Winters Soldier" when the activation of Hydra agents, embedded at all levels of SHIELD comes to the fore. Shorn of both power and legitimacy, the seasons ends with the agents increasingly having to act on their own initiatives to achieve their aims. The are guest appearances from Samuel L Jackson, Cobie Smulders and Maximiliano Hernandez, as well as Jamie Alexander as Lady Sif.
There's definitely the "Buffy/Whedon" vibe running through the series, as he was one of the main creative forces at Marvel during this time, before "the unpleasantness". It has the same funny lines and smart ass, almost fourth wall breaking, style that his series have. The seasons have the monster of the week and mythology style that other shows have utilised so well and, again like Buffy, leads up to the reveal of a "big bad" at the end of it. The visual effects are good as is Bear McCreary's score.
My recollection is that I've got some lean years to come, as the show drifts further away from what was happening in the movies, but I was pleasantly surprised with just how much I enjoyed this season.
Resurrected following his death at the hands of Loki ahead of the Battle for New York, Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) is tasked with putting together a small team to react to unusual behaviour, starting with Mike Peterson (J August Richards) who has superhuman strength from the extremis in his system. Coulson recruits specialists Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) and Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) and scientists Leo Fitz (Iain de Caestecker) and Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) but it's a hacker and activists Skye (Chloe Bennet) who is able to get them close to Peterson.
Generally, I enjoyed this season of "Agents of Shield" more than I thought I would. I forgot how integral it felt to the MCU at this time, with the plots of "Iron Man 3" and "Thor: The Dark World" having a factor on the plot of the series. The whole season shifts though on the events of "Captain America: The Winters Soldier" when the activation of Hydra agents, embedded at all levels of SHIELD comes to the fore. Shorn of both power and legitimacy, the seasons ends with the agents increasingly having to act on their own initiatives to achieve their aims. The are guest appearances from Samuel L Jackson, Cobie Smulders and Maximiliano Hernandez, as well as Jamie Alexander as Lady Sif.
There's definitely the "Buffy/Whedon" vibe running through the series, as he was one of the main creative forces at Marvel during this time, before "the unpleasantness". It has the same funny lines and smart ass, almost fourth wall breaking, style that his series have. The seasons have the monster of the week and mythology style that other shows have utilised so well and, again like Buffy, leads up to the reveal of a "big bad" at the end of it. The visual effects are good as is Bear McCreary's score.
My recollection is that I've got some lean years to come, as the show drifts further away from what was happening in the movies, but I was pleasantly surprised with just how much I enjoyed this season.
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