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Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD season 7 episode 8 review: Afterlife, again

By Christina Roberts

MARVELÕS AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - "After, Before" - With the Zephyr's time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling toward disaster and Yo-Yo may be their only hope. The only problem? To get her powers back, she'll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away, on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/Mitchell Haaseth)MING-NA WEN, NATALIA CORDOVA-BUCKLEY
MARVELÕS AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - "After, Before" - With the Zephyr's time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling toward disaster and Yo-Yo may be their only hope. The only problem? To get her powers back, she'll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away, on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/Mitchell Haaseth)MING-NA WEN, NATALIA CORDOVA-BUCKLEY /
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As Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD flies through time, May and Elena try to figure out how to fix her powers with the help of some familiar faces in Afterlife

You know, it’s been a lot of fun so far this season on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. Terrifying fun, but still fun.

This week looks like it’s going to be more of the same, so let’s just jump in…

We jump back to the start of last week’s episode, except this time from the POV of the Zephyr and their time jump of 481 days with 20 minutes to find Mack and Deke. With another jump of about four months. That’s when May and Elena jump off to get Mack and Deke and come back to the Zephyr in October.

Unfortunately, they’ve lost control of the time drive and they’re running out of time to fix it. If they can pull the plug on the fuel cell, they can stop their jumps.

They just need Elena to jump between the pulses around the cell. Which means going to Afterlife to try to get Jiaying to help her fix her powers.

MARVELÕS AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “After, Before” – With the Zephyr’s time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling toward disaster and Yo-Yo may be their only hope. The only problem? To get her powers back, she’ll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away, on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/Mitchell Haaseth)NATALIA CORDOVA-BUCKLEY
MARVELÕS AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “After, Before” – With the Zephyr’s time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling toward disaster and Yo-Yo may be their only hope. The only problem? To get her powers back, she’ll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away, on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/Mitchell Haaseth)NATALIA CORDOVA-BUCKLEY /

May and Elena convince Jiaying of Elena’s powers. Meanwhile, May is a beacon of reading everyone’s emotions, but it seems as though things aren’t all sunshine, lollipops, and roses in Afterlife.

Nothing’s in Elena’s blood—her issue is in her mind. And May’s empathic powers are the perfect way to guide her through this. “This is literally my worst nightmare,” May utters. With a follow up of “do I have to be this close to her face?”

Rather than Jiaying’s calm way, they go to hand-to-hand combat and make their way through Elena’s emotional trauma. Which is… a lot. Even from her childhood, things we haven’t seen before. May thinks the key is for Elena to forgive herself.

Another problem? Nathaniel Malick now being an emo-Magneto and recruiting his own Brotherhood of Mutants, starting an attack on Afterlife. May and Elena book it out of there to try to make it back to the Zephyr, which is already having enough problems of its own.

They have thirty-second windows to make it back to the Quinjet and abandon ship, but Elena finally has a revelation—she doesn’t have to bounce back to where she starts her run. She was always holding herself back.

One more problem? Her pulling the plug didn’t actually work.

MARVELÕS AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “After, Before” – With the Zephyr’s time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling toward disaster and Yo-Yo may be their only hope. The only problem? To get her powers back, she’ll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away, on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/Mitchell Haaseth)MING-NA WEN
MARVELÕS AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “After, Before” – With the Zephyr’s time drive malfunctioning, the team is quite literally hurling toward disaster and Yo-Yo may be their only hope. The only problem? To get her powers back, she’ll need to enlist the help of an old adversary and revisit part of her past long hidden away, on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/Mitchell Haaseth)MING-NA WEN /

Post-Credits Stinger

Back in Afterlife, Nathaniel is shaking things up. How about some anarchy?

Badass Moment of the Week

The casual way in which Elena just picks up the Diviner like it’s no big deal is excellent.

Best One-Liner

“Finally! The scientist from the future and I are on the same page!”

”I’d rather have a thin plan than live through the Eighties again,” May admits.

Half of the episode is also the Zephyr trying to figure out its issues and the team struggling to get ready to disembark if necessary. Simmons finally gives Sousa a better prosthetic (though I just thought he walked with a limp?). And he still waits by Daisy’s bedside while she recuperates.

We do also get confirmation that Fitz has been telling the Zephyr when to jump, too. But they’ve lost communication with him since Izel. Which is not good.

Next. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD: Deke Shaw’s evolution. dark

Next week’s Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD has us trapped in a time storm. It looks like a horribly dark Groundhog Day! Where everyone dies except LMD!Coulson! It sounds horrible!

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