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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Rewind

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  • Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Rewind
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Rewind television review

“Rewind” is the first episode of the show’s Fifth Season that I’m relatively happy with (even if it still leaves quite a bit unexplained). Leaving the alternate future, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. rewinds to the moment in which the rest of his team where taken and follows the path of Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) from arrest to finding his way to the future himself. The episode introduces us the alien Enoch (Joel Stoffer as a character pretty much stolen from a Hellboy comic) and a young human (Lexy Kolker) whose hazy vision of the future is responsible for the rest of the cast being thrown decades into the future, despite the fact that their return to the present will undoubtedly change events to make the future they are currently stuck in completely irrelevant.

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – A Life Earned

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  • Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – A Life Earned
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - A Life Earned TV review

The misadventures of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. lost in time and space continues as adapting to their surroundings has negative effects on Mack (Henry Simmons), Daisy (Chloe Bennet) meets the Kree overlords and discovers their plans for Inhumans, May (Ming-Na Wen) gets her ass kicked, and the rest of the team stumbles around the space station for an hour (give or take a few minutes for commercials). One reveal that “A Life Earned” does give us is the identity of the man behind the mask we saw back in the first episode of this season. As to why he’s been avoiding his friends since their arrival… um, that’s less clear.

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Orientation

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  • Title: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Orientation (Parts 1 & 2)
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Orientation TV review

Okay, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is officially out of ideas. Tell me if this sounds familiar, Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team wake to discover they’ve been transported to a mysterious new world and will spend several episodes (about half a season, maybe) trying to find their way home? Yeah, that was last season’s second-half arc. It’s always where this season begins with the team abducted and shot into the future awakening aboard a Kree prison ship and struggling (and failing) to discover how and why they ended up in their current predicament.

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The Punisher – 3AM

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The Punisher - 3AM television series

Aside from the opening and closing scenes, there’s little punishment dealt out in the first episode of Netflix’s The Punisher. Previously introducing in the Second Season of Daredevil, Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) kills off the last couple members of the criminal organization tied to the murder of his wife and children. Months later, still haunted by his missing family (which he deals with by smashing walls into rubble) and hiding under an assumed identity as a construction worker, Frank is forced into action to help a co-worker (Lucca De Oliveira) who gets in over-his-head. Once he gets out, they pull him back in.

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Inhumans – Divide… and Conquer

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Inhumans - Divide and Conquer television review

“Divide and Conquer” gets Crystal (Isabelle Cornish) and Lockjaw to Earth, although the Inhuman royal court remains scattered. Black Bolt‘s (Anson Mount) time in prison is cut short thanks to the help of an Inhuman (Faleolo Alailima) and the mysterious Dr. Evan Declan (Henry Ian Cusick) whose interest in Inhumans has yet to be explored. Medusa (Serinda Swan) spends most of the episode wandering around aimlessly and breaking into a high-priced gated community (presumably because it has “royal” in the title). I’m not sure if she’s meant to seem brain-damaged (were her brains in her hair?), but it is insanely coincidental to discover she can read English and quickly make it to Black Bolt’s prison only seconds too late to catch her husband given how aimless she is in other scenes. Meanwhile on Attilan, Maximus (Iwan Rheon) continues to prove he’s the worst super-villain ever. Three episodes in, this show isn’t getting any better.

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