The supernatural is blazing its way into Agents Of Shield. Tara Bennett goes undercover as Marvel’s spy saga gets weird…
Rejoice, fans of freedom and all that is good – SHIELD is officially back in business.
Recap time, Eyes Only: after the covert organisation found itself infiltrated by Hydra in the second season of Agents Of SHIELD it was publicly dismantled. Director Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team created an underground operation to battle Hydra. With the help of a team of genetically modified Inhumans called the Secret Warriors, they succeeded in stamping out Hydra by the end of season three.
Keeping up with the big-screen events of Captain America: Civil War, season four welcomes SHIELD back as a public entity, now led by Director Jeffrey Mace (Jason O’Mara), helping to enforce the Sokovia Accords.
That development doesn’t sit well for all the agents, especially Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet) who has left SHIELD to operate as Quake, protecting targeted Inhumans from watchdog groups trying to wipe them out. “The Inhumans are a metaphor for us in terms of what it’s like to be different,” executive producer and co-show runner Jed Whedon tells SFX. “So being able to explore some of those themes opens up a lot of story that is very personal to a lot of people for different reasons.”
“Daisy is very much at the centre of that,” adds fellow executive producer and co-showrunner Maurissa Tancharoen. “Now she’s gone rogue she is on a mission to protect Inhumans. Placing her at the centre of that helps us to explore the nature of what it means to be an Inhuman in a world that is watching them, and in a world where people might think it’s not favourable for them to be in society.”
This story is from the March 2017 edition of SFX.
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