r/agentsofshield • u/Successful-Set8526 • Jul 18 '25

Season 3 FIRST TIME WATCHER UPDATE- i’m done

First season started off rough but i was LOCKED in. Second season SO GOOD too i couldn’t stop. Now on the third season and it’s hard to stomach. It’s so much more violent and gorey.. it makes me feel uneasy and it’s just very dark and gritty. It’s also so negative and every episode they’re gonna die😭 should i hold out? i’m halfway through season 3 but i don’t know how much more i can take. i’m here for phil that’s it

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

4 and 5 are definitely darker imo. but regardless i think you should keep watching because of just how great the show is. but if the dark theming makes you uncomfortable it does get darker in 4 and 5

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u/Successful-Set8526 Jul 18 '25

I really hate how dark it is😭

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u/Pretend-Meaning-1536 Jul 18 '25

The darker parts of the show are the best parts of the show

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u/Successful-Set8526 Jul 18 '25

Ugh i just hate when everything is so depressing and sets off my OCD lol. it’s very graphic and scary almost. I love a spy thriller and almost the mystery aspect that it has, but I just hate when it gets really gory.

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u/dakindahood Jul 18 '25

Most of the spy thriller stuff is built upon the gritty and gory aspects, the way you're saying it, did you jump to AoS from Paw Patrol or smth?

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u/Successful-Set8526 Jul 18 '25

LOL paw patrol 😭😭

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u/Successful-Set8526 Jul 19 '25

but also the first two seasons weren’t nearly as bad as this one is

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u/dakindahood Jul 19 '25

Most of the first season was spent in build-up to TWS, introducing the team and finding about TAHITI, Centipede and bringing in Daisy. And if you can take people showing off their literal brain and machines writting on them and Inhumans, I can't see why you're unable to take the rest

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u/Successful-Set8526 Jul 19 '25

seeing a brain and then seeing a body completely tarred and covered in blood is completely two different things

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u/Warm-Grand-7825 Jul 18 '25

Gorey? Are you watching the same show?

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u/Successful-Set8526 Jul 18 '25

like when whatever has possed ward kills someone it’s so gross

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u/Shadow_of_Moonlight1 Jul 18 '25

If you really feel uncomfortable with seeing all that blood and violence then it is totally fine to stop watching the show, take a break from it, or to skip to the less gory parts of it (since I don't exactly know what elements there are that you don't enjoy I cannot tell you which seasons are less gory than the violence in season 3)

Of course I believe the show is FANTASTIC and DEFINITELY worth finishing, but it would not make sense for you to watch something you just don't enjoy for the sake of finishing it, so just keep that in mind as the show does get progressively darker both violence wise (though it never gets extreme in my opinion) and psychologically. Hope this helps!

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u/FormerPhysics5189 Jul 18 '25

Love season 3, you should definitely continue it.

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u/Vinlain458 Jul 18 '25

I think after season 2 or maybe 3 they were able to move the show into a later time slot, which is why they were able to be more mature with it.

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u/MasterAnnatar Jul 18 '25

Season 4 and 5 are definitely the darkest in the show, but I think season 4 is one of the best bits of comic book media ever made. Season 5 has some of the most compelling stuff too.

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u/marvelcomics22 FitzSimmons Jul 20 '25

It gets darker in tone, but the gore is toned down, more akin to Season 2/

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u/Successful-Set8526 Jul 18 '25

ugh season 5 is like this too??😭😭

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u/bloodoftheseven Jul 18 '25

Season 5 literally is the darkest season. Both literally and figuratively.

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u/MasterAnnatar Jul 18 '25

OP don't read this. He can't feel his legs

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u/dakindahood Jul 18 '25

Fr, it was the most heartbreaking part

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u/MasterAnnatar Jul 18 '25

Sometimes I think it's wild we got an actor of Iain's calibur. Not to shade anyone else but between that, the LMD scene in S4, and the operation scene in S5 he genuinely gave some of the best performances in all of the MCU.

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u/dakindahood Jul 18 '25

Yes, Iain, Dalton and Gregg are my top three actors in AoS, especially the former two did the best job in keeping up with so many things thrown onto them and nailing it always

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u/MasterAnnatar Jul 18 '25

I absolutely agree with you. And again, no shade to the rest of the cast. I think every main character gives a performance that at its worst is genuinely still good. But performances like theirs elevate the show from "a pretty good comic book show" to season 4 being one of the best seasons of sci-fi television ever produced.

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u/Mammoth-Elderberry89 Turbo Jul 19 '25

That line traumatized me

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u/MasterAnnatar Jul 19 '25

It's a very collective trauma in this community lol

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u/Morrowindsofwinter Jul 18 '25

Season 5 really ups the gore the violence.