![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Speaking of which, I'm assuming the city in question is Attilan, the home base of the Inhumans – who share a history with the Kree, and whom are reportedly going to be Marvel's workaround for how to present a film and TV universe without mutants, given that they outsourced those rights. “SHIELD” is obviously a show with life-and-death stakes, but this episode played like the DNA of some other show – possibly one run by Kevin Williamson – had been superimposed over its own, in the same way that the Kree corpse's DNA was driving all the TAHITI subjects crazy. As Brian Van Holt's Sebastian carved up his victims, threatened Hank Thompson's family, and talked about cutting the information out of himself and others – on top of the return of all the horrific imagery from Project TAHITI – I began to find myself empathizing with Mac, who spent much of the hour wondering what kind of horror show he signed up for. ![]() “The Writing on the Wall” brought the arc of Coulson's incessant doodling to a welcome end, in an episode that was a good showcase for Clark Gregg – playing something deeper and more complex than the role usually affords him the opportunity to do – but also darker and/or more graphic than this show is probably meant to go. A quick review of tonight's “Marvel's Agents of SHIELD” coming up just as soon as I have some Enya albums I've been hiding… ![]()
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