Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD review: Shrikes all over and a she-beast

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD amps up to the potential end of the world. Can they trust Sarge and his mission? Can FitzSimmons make it back to Earth?

Nope, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD doesn’t even take a break for the Fourth of July weekend!

Let’s start on the FitzSimmons side of things. “I’d be happy with you anywhere, but I am sick of space,” Simmons remarks just before they make the jump back to Earth.

On the Earth-based SHIELD, Mack and Sarge are in a bargaining situation about how to proceed. Sarge gets his truck and his crew—but his crew is now Snowflake, Daisy, and May. Jaco stays behind as leverage. Oh, and Deke, too. There’s a beast coming, the shrikes’ master, and they all have to be ready.

And yes, Izel appears to have some shrikes with her… that makes her the beast. Sarge confirms this a scene later and also explains to Daisy that Izel murdered his family. And probably his home planet.

She gives us some background on the monoliths, but it’s not much more than we already knew. They originated on her planet and were created to connect life together. Oh, and apparently Sarge murdered her crew. But she knows what Sarge really is. Will she tell us before the episode ends?

Binson has been doing some research and Izel’s name keeps popping up throughout history—usually Incan. Sounds like she escaped from a realm of death and darkness and is looking for the monoliths. But why?

All of the shrikes building that homing beacon was kind of disgusting. But it will lead Izel and her ship down to Earth.

Sarge’s backup plan to kill Izel is a bomb that will make a crater 200 miles wide. Daisy, May, and Deke try to find it and disarm it while Sarge teleports to the SHIELD plane.

And everyone is rushing toward the giant shrike tower, one of them holding an atom bomb that will explode on impact.

Post-Credits Stinger

Enoch is still at the casino on Kitson. He’s contacted another Chronicom anthropologist and wants to gather the fragments of their broken civilization and repair it. The remaining Chronicoms that is.

Badass Moment of the Week

Everything about Fitz being jealous of his other self marrying Simmons first.

Best One-Liner

See the “Badass Moment of the Week” above.

We do get a fun scene with Daisy and Sarge alone. Daisy can’t believe that Sarge is Coulson’s molecular double and Sarge just doesn’t care. But you know it has to be messing with Daisy’s head.

I don’t even want to get into Deke and Snowflake. Like Daisy said, I need bleach for my eyes.

Next week’s Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD continues the story from this week, as Sarge tries to take control of the Quinjet and shrikes explode across the planet. Hooray!