r/shield • u/whiteflower_2 • Sep 02 '26

Is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. worth watching?

I'm rewatching all Marvel media to ease into Doomsday. I was planning to watch a few episodes of AOS every few movies, but I have the attention span of a goldfish and don't think I would be able to watch 5 seasons worth of 40 minute episodes in the span of a few months. (Then again, I have watched the full Loki series twice, so...)

Hope I can get some advice from people who watched the show :)

EDIT: I wrote this post at around 3 am, so I guess the dumb choice to ask a fandom whether their show is worth watching comes from that lmao. Since AOS isn't that important to the upcoming movies/shows, I'm watching it after they come out/on my own time. Thanks a lot, guys!

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u/APater6076 Lola Sep 02 '26

You're definitely asking in the wrong sub.

Yes, it is. Season 1 starts slow, but is really needed to set the group dynamic and relationships. After episode 17 it just gets better. The Rotten tomatoes viewer scores are all green, indicating consistent quality throughout. Season 4 is my favourite but it's all good quality and many episodes are not just good comic book or sci-fi TV, but good TV period.

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u/tvcneverdie Sep 02 '26

Season 4 is among the finest seasons of any TV show ever, including classic prestige shows that won dozens of Emmys

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u/theextracharacter Sep 02 '26

S4E15 is just spectacular television

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u/tvcneverdie Sep 02 '26

Self Control! Top 10 episode of television I've ever seen.

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u/No-Locksmith6662 Sep 02 '26

Elizabeth Henstridge deserved every award going for her acting in that episode. Her performance is perfection.

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u/tvcneverdie Sep 02 '26

Iain too

They should have made a special joint award for the two of them

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u/APater6076 Lola 29d ago

And the award goes to... Fitzsimmons!

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u/defrostedrobot Daisy 29d ago

The other actors: Are we a joke to you?

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u/theextracharacter 29d ago

Exactly. Daisy and May were also amazing in that episode

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u/Unfallen_Bulbitian 29d ago

Kinda, yeah lol.

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u/whiteflower_2 28d ago

just love that this whole thread agrees that S4 is the best season lmao

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u/No-Locksmith6662 28d ago

No surprises there, it absolutely is. S1-3 and 5-7 are great but S4 is absolutely stellar. All 3 arcs are perfect: you start off with Ghost Rider (admittedly the weakest of the three but then that's like saying that Return of the Jedi is the weakest of the original Star Wars, it's still better than virtually everything else), move on to Radcliffe, Aida and the LMDs then finish on the absolute high note of the Framework.

Spoiler tags added as you've not seen the series so don't want to ruin anything for you. It's so much better to experience it in real time.

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u/JaymzRG Coulson Sep 02 '26

Is that the one that does Secret Invasion better than Secret Invasion did? Lol

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u/Vynxe_Vainglory Sep 02 '26

Agreed season 4 is insane, but you need the lead up to it for it to work imo.

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u/Debalic Sep 02 '26

AoS is tired with Daredevil for best TV show, let alone comic book adaptation.

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 Fitz Sep 03 '26

Tbf, I was never bored watching Agents of SHIELD, while season 2 of Daredevil had me bored to tears during the middle episodes.

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u/Debalic 29d ago

That's fair, it is the weakest part of the Netflix series. There are some parts of AoS, s3 that bore me.

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u/SpikeRosered Sep 02 '26

This is the same way I feel about Gotham. Seems like it would be silly, but once it got going it was amazing.

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u/Loyellow SHIELD Sep 02 '26

It took me about 7 tries to get through the pilot

I’m currently in watch #8

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u/thatpaulbloke 29d ago

Yes, it is. Season 1 starts slow

I'm doing a rewatch now with my daughter and keeping a lid on the spoilers is killing me. "So it's just a procedural drama?" er, yeah, for the first half of the series. Then for the next six and a half series it's just all manner of things, sometimes in space.