Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’: Season Four Proved the Series Needs More Fury and More MCU DNA By Daniel Rasmus / 29 June 2017 Marvel does the series a disservice by severing it from the wider cinematic universe.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television By Focusing on Androids, ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Risks Losing Some of Its Humanity By PopMatters Staff / 23 February 2017 Focusing on the technology is a missed opportunity for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to truly explore issues of "otherness".
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’: “Laws of Inferno Dynamics” Offers a Welcome Return to Science Over Magic By Daniel Rasmus / 10 January 2017 As the team puts its collective heads together, they find the answers are more science than supernatural.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’: “The Good Samaritan” Leans Too Heavily on the Supernatural By Daniel Rasmus / 29 November 2016 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gets a little too magical for a science fiction series, with decidedly mixed results.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Season 4: Putting the Marvel Universe Through a Blender By Daniel Rasmus / 10 November 2016 I still love the Marvel universe, and the characters in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but I can't help but find myself imagining Weird Al Yankovic turning this season into a spoof sung to Alanis Morissette's "Isn't It Ironic".
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 4, Episode 1 – “Ghost” By Daniel Rasmus / 28 September 2016 Ghost Rider shifts Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. from sci-fi to supernatural; will the series survive the transition?
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Television “It’s not something you get to play very often”: Interview with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Clark Gregg By Daniel Rasmus / 12 July 2016 Clark Gregg shares his insights on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the MCU, and whether his Lip Sync Battle moment influences his performance.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 3, Episode 21 / 22 – “Absolution”/”Ascension” By Daniel Rasmus / 2 June 2016 Daisy Johnson's three-season journey from hacker to agent to outcast shows that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has always been her story.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 3, Episode 20 – “Emancipation” By Daniel Rasmus / 20 May 2016 Beneath all the action, "Emancipation" ponders deeper questions of faith and freedom.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 3, Episode 19 – “Failed Experiments” By Daniel Rasmus / 12 May 2016 The latest episode lives up to its title, as Inhumans, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Kree all try, and fail, to change much.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 3, Episode 18 – “The Singularity” By Daniel Rasmus / 5 May 2016 The differences between the adrenaline-fueled S.H.I.E.L.D. and the cult of Hive come into stark contrast as the season winds down.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 3, Episode 17 – “The Team” By Daniel Rasmus / 27 April 2016 Some characters have taken radically different paths than their comic book counterparts -- at least in this reality.