This is a series that came just a couple years too early. I can often see the conflict between the writers trying to make something interesting or challenging and the network backing them down into the same rote, predictable product. Every attempt from the early HYDRA reveal to criticizing the 2016 election in later seasons is inevitably tamed into boring nothingness. This doesn't mean there aren't some redeeming characteristics, it just means to expect the expected and nothing more.

Bennet is cute, but with so many great tv shows out there, I don't see myself watching a lot of seasons of this anytime soon. (3 episodes)

What started out as a guilty pleasure carried by small connections to the Marvel Cinematic universe has evolved throughout into being a really good show in the third season. (3 seasons)

Great cast with good character development. Great under the radar defense of humanity drama.

I enjoyed the experience but I'd probably be more critical if I rewatched.

good series

Held of from watching as I have been dissapointed by TV superhero and spinoffs on tv especially the DC crap. Finally started watching last month after they had been out for 5 seasons. Was pleasantly surprised and hooked. Good characters, plots, CGI, pacing, and a quite decent suppresion of corniness and tv series cliches. A sort of simplified Game of Thrones where noone is really a good guy (apart from the Fitz Simmons maybe). Worth watching

[through season 7] A wonderful show that was largely ignored because its earliest episodes make it naively seem to be a monster-of-the-week style of show. Late in season 1, it is revealed not to be. Probably my favorite thing in the MCU.

Really great show from start to finish. Some seasons are obviously better than others, and I wish they connected more with the MCU than they ended up doing, but this show had enough great characters and storylines to stand on its own. I'd love to see some of the characters rejoin the larger MCU later on Disney+, if possible.

S01: Coulson's resurrection & post Winter Soldier Hydra fallout. Takes a while (half a season) to get going. S02: Inhumans. Daisy backstory and powers, make for a more interesting season arc. -Some clichés, patchy acting, and filler. +Bobbi & Hunter. S03: Conspiracy and alien problem. Strong season. S04: Ghost Rider & Androids. Short story arcs (or Pods) make the pacing much better. Best season. S05: Time travel & apocalypse. A little bloated, but good. S06: Evil Coulson?

I haven't kept up, it started middling, was promising for a while, but then fell apart while being tossed the bones of the MCU and being asked to keep up on a budget.

Starts as an unnecessary MCU extra but once tie got loose with it and becomes one of the greatest shows on air in it's time. S01~S06-88 S07-86

Season 1: 50

better early seasons.. but after the robot lady and framework season - it's mostly shit. edit: the last season is actually very good. excellent really.

Fitz and Simmonds one of my fav romances ever. Rest of the show is okay-good

Amusing but weightless.

Either a sci-fied up, less entertaining version of Alias or the world's worst Avengers sequel, whichever you prefer. Even at its best it mostly feels flat and insular, with attempts at Whedon-y Firefly/Buffy-esque dialogue almost always landing flat. A few extras point because it does get a little better after the Hydra twist in Winter Soldier, though that plot, too, grows dull before it's done.

Just a bit too cheesy and glossy for me.