Agents Of Sarge.
13 Episodes. Starring: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley & Jeff Ward. Creator: Joss Whedon.
Space. The penultimate season from Marvel's final frontier. These are the voyages of the 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Their continuing mission, to seek out new lives and new seasons for Clark Gregg's Agent Caulson. To boldly go where no Nick Fury has gone before. 'Captain Marvel' may have put fan favourite Caulson back on the big screen, like this 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Joss Whedon produced spin-off series brought 'The Avengers' actor back to life after he was Kebabed by Loki before the directors last 'Age Of Ultron' stand. The 90's throwback of Marvel's new Captain my Captain between 'Infinity War' and the 'Endgame' giving Clark Gregg the CGI Oil of Olay, anti-ageing treatment they've given all sorts of legends of movies and now Marvel. From the planet eating Kurt Russell to the original Ant and ladies man Michael Douglas, swaggering through his bid for his own standalone Hank Pym origin movie (we'd swarm to that). But after retiring to the islands of paradise before passing away like the fifth season it really looks like Tahiti really is a magical place. Because who's that lurking in the background of the sixth seasons promotional picture art with shades of the last supper? And with that look on his face at his fellow agents if he really is resurrected is he looking to get his Judas on and betray? Surely not Caulson! But just you wait until the cult legendary Clark Gregg shows you what he has in store this season for a character and actor who is now so, so much more than the men in black like suit who used to deliver origin story Avengers exposition dialogue way before the original assemble. A Jon Connor like resistance fighter rebelling in this 'Terminator' like apocalypse. Wearing that 'Deadpool' dissing monochromatic wardrobe probably for the midnight showing of the new Mahershala Ali 'Blade' movie too. This new cut of the undead gone rogue feels so right, even if it looks so wrong. Aye, aye Sarge!
Sky is the limit for this series however. As Chloe Bennett's Daisy is still the saviour of world's superhero we all needed before a Brie Larson as Carol Danvers 'Captain Marvel' and even a Scarlett Johansson 'Black Widow' solo movie. Whilst like that type of Avengers assassin herself 'Mulan' legend Ming-Na Wen looks to put more people in the 'E.R.' these days then save them. Even the science bros of the dear departed Tony Stark (3000...three thousand) and Professor Hulk have nothing on the Fitz/Simmons lab partnership of great Scot Iain De Caestecker and Elizabeth Henstridge that can even miraculously make themselves look as young as their grandson (without the M.C.U. CGI) who looks strangely like Rocket Racoon (or a young Bradley Cooper to be exact) in the standout Jeff Ward. Ward becoming a series regular now like the yo yoing of Natalia Cordova-Buckley with two Bucky's, faster than a speeding uncle at your wedding reception when the buffet is now open. She's the heart of this series and it beats for the best Henry Simmons. The soul of this season. The new leader in this new direction. And who better than the Mack? The blunderbuss and axe bayonet wielding call to henched up arms who could probably even bench press Thanos, if he wasn't SPOILER ALERT inevitably clicked into submission by the "I am" in Iron Man already that is. Simmons like Fitz is the perfect fit with so much humanity and mind behind that frame of muscle. With Poitier poise and Denzel dignity he's the right man to lead S.H.I.E.L.D. into their next phase of generation behind one like Anthony Mackie's new 'Falcon and The Winter Soldier', Captain America. And if this really is going to be it next year for the ABC show like 1, 2, 3, then maybe one day for A.O.S. like hopefully the Netflix level heroes left out on the street there will be a Disney plus for the new Mickey Mouse Magic Kingdom home of Stan Lee's comic creations. Excelsior!
'Get Him To The Greek' style hallucinogenic trips and trademark Marvel quips make for some central comedy that helps offset the emotion ends that come out of nowhere and hit you like a Yo-Yo. One such scene involving an invading villain who plays host and snatches bodies like flayed residents of Hawkins, Illinois results in the best body swap scene on a constant loop since Washington's demonic 'Fallen'. Whistling along to the Rolling Stones as time really isn't on the side of a S.H.I.E.L.D. more paranoid than the time icon Robert Redford set off the "it's all connected", game and franchise changing events of 'The Winter Soldier', silver screen to series. But all hail this anti-Hydra however like Captain Rogers whispering to you in a comic book, Easter Egg lift riff. Because these 'Agents' in change are more than ones M.C.U. sideswiped and marooned in space for the last two seasons between the avenging events of 'Infinity' and 'Endgame'. They are in their own war now and it's going to take them to the end of the line. Are you with them? Because we are too. All the way down to the last Knight like the conclusion of DC's epic Batman begins 'Gotham' series that ended on the rooftops watching over the city. These two rival shows from the two big comic book juggernauts have strands of shared histories. But as the one that started it all goes the distance as the last one to leave the gym, like everything you see in the movies, Marvel leads the way today. And as this sixth season fares better than the out of the world last one, but still isn't touching the flames of 'Ghost Rider' and the Robbie Reyes solo season we can't wait for maybe Gabriel Luna and a whole host of six degrees of superhero separation M.C.U. actors will join the seventh seal showdown, before this show that has run longer than even any run of character origin story movies meets it's final curtain call. For more cameos than Samuel L. Jackson in season one. Or the resurrecting Brett Dalton, or recurring 'Far From Home' star Cobie Smulders, as the 'How I Met Your Mother' actress should really be a regular for this T.V. show now. But for the ultimate Avenger how about these Agents help a time travelling Cap put the infinity stones back? They've already mastered the H.G. Wells art. So how about one last trip to see the original Agent Carter with Captain Rogers for one last saved dance with his best girl sending him and us on our way? Then that would really make S.H.I.E.L.D. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'Gotham', 'Krypton', 'Captain Marvel'.
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