Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 3 (2015)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2015
	Creators: Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly)
	Actors: Clark Gregg (Iron Man 1-3, The Avengers), Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: September 2016, VOD, 10" tablet screen
Synopsis: Phil Coulson (Gregg) is leading a team of soldiers now accompanied with gifted humans, in his fight against the Hydra organization.
Review: Here we go for a third season of this TV-series taking place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (see reviews of the seasons one and two). After the events that occurred in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron and at the end of the second season, the setting for the events in this third season has definitely changed. In fact, I found that this universe starts to look more and more like the X-men one, and it is no secret that a successful evolution of a comics-book story would be copied by others, even within the same publisher (in that case Marvel). Indeed we get to meet more and more people with powers (Inhumans) that are not limited to billionaires in metal suits, Asgardians or humans enhanced after military experiments. An explanation is given for the emergence of those powers, to the point of teaching us how blue E.T.s played with our D.N.A. (Episode 19: Failed Experiments), in a similar fashion as what is revealed in Ridley Scott's Prometheus. I can't say much more about the story in the third season without spoiling. Just that it is focused on a new objective that nicely wraps up the season together, and that as in season two I appreciated the mini-climax at the end of Episode 9: Closure. The spirit of the series remains the same: lots of action, but also a lot of talking. Two jokes by Agent Coulson made me laugh a lot, both referencing to SF pop-culture with Star Wars (in the concluding Episode 23 Ascension) and The Terminator in the excellent Episode 15 Spacetime. Throughout the season mention is also made of the events in Ant-Man belonging to the same universe, and Episode 20: Emancipation takes place right after Captain America: Civil War. I have also recently found out (in this timeline) about a web-series of TV-news revolving around the same universe, called WHiH Newsfront and that you can find on YouTube. Finally I would like to mention the nice apparitions of the actors Mark Dacascos (Crying Freeman), John Hannah (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Mummy), Powers Boothe (Sin City), William Sadler (Die Hard 2) and Constance Zimmer (House of Cards) in the series.
Rating: 6 /10