Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 [Blu-ray]

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

All these Marvel movies came out with Agent Phil Coulsen, Nick Fury and SHIELD showing up. I saw The Avengers without knowing Thor’s story & saw Phil Coulsen get killed in the movie. When I heard there was going to be a SHIELD TV show, I was put off the show even though Joss Whedon’s name was attached to it. After having watched The Avengers & seeing Coulsen killed off, I couldn’t see how the show would be viable centered around him. I was wrong. Over the last few months, I have been catching up on the Marvel movies. I still haven’t seen Iron Man 2 and the first Thor all the way through yet. That should help me understand The Avengers a second time through. Marvel’s Agents of Shield goes in tandem with almost all the Marvel movies.
I didn’t expect a large bulk of the season to be the mystery of how Coulsen is alive and walking about when he was killed in The Avengers. Tying in with the Captain America movies, the villanous organization Hydra is looking to get the miracle cure of Coulsen & use it for themselves. Behind the rebirth of the Nazi organization is a mystery man known as the Clairvoyant who seems to know everything except for how Coulsen survived. Joining him as his right-hand is a lovely black woman named Raina (Preacher’s Ruth Negga) in a an Asian flower print dress he calls Flowers.
If you could imagine where the season is headed, one member of the team is a secret Hydra operative.
While many are familiar with Coulsen and Nick Fury (who appears in two episodes), all of the agents are new to audiences. There is Sky, a former hacker, who is recruited to join SHIELD, a bad-ass agent named Melinda May, two agents from the UK, Fitz & Simmons, the muscle agent Grant Ward and assorted other SHIELD agents who pop up along the season.
Part of the arc of the season is a man with super-powers named Michael Peterson who becomes known as DeathLok, a tool of Hydra, played by Angel’s J. August Richards. Yes, the mystery of how Coulsen is alive is somewhat explained, but it opens up even more questions. It is very good to see the talented Ruth Negga in something besides Preacher. I am now watching Season 2.
Watch the Marvel movies and watch this show to see how fun things get with the material.
-Dean L. Kaufman

I was interested in this show as soon as I heard it was coming out. Coulson (Clark Gregg) is one of my favorite parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so I was eager to see him in a starring role. While I’ve questioned some of the writing in the first half of the season and had to play devil’s advocate a few times and force myself to be patient with the writers’ choices, I’ve been well-rewarded for my patience. The show is getting better and better every week now that we’re past the “introductory” episodes, and I can’t wait to see what’s coming next. If ABC doesn’t pick this show up for a second season (especially given that the writers have said that they have at least 5 seasons worth of episodes planned out), I think they’ll regret it immensely in the long run. Yes, it had somewhat of a slow start, and yes, I wish a few of the characters had a bit more development, but the recent strong episodes have convinced me that they do know what they’re doing.

Is this show full of the superheroes from the movies that have been such mega-blockbusters? No…but that was never the point of the show. The point was to show how everyday people (extraordinary agents) are adapting to a new world filled with superheroes and alien invasions (as seen in The Avengers). There are definite references to the movies, and I’m still hoping to see some superhero cameos in the later half of the season, but I have loved every episode. Clark Gregg is fantastic reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson (a character who has become so popular, he’s been integrated into the mainstream Marvel comic universe).

Anyone who is a fan of the Marvel movies should enjoy this show, but should keep in mind that you’re not going to see Tony Stark (Iron Man) or Captain America every single week.

-phoenixqueen

DVD Wholesale Main Features:.

Actors: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, AC-3, Box set, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), English (DTS-HD High Res Audio)
Subtitles: French, Spanish, English
Region: Region A/1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:NR-Not Rated
Studio: MARVEL
DVD Release Date: September 9, 2014
Run Time: 946 minutes
ASIN: B00KMXQJ0A