The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Cast Remembers What It Was Like to Move Beyond the McU
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
is taking a bow tonight, and it's doing it on its own terms. Back when the series started in 2013, Iron Man 3 had just been released, and Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier were both on deck.
Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) had just been killed a year earlier in The Avengers, so it was a pretty big deal that he was now returning to lead a whole show focused on S.H.I.E.L.D., the ever-changing organization at the center of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The series arrived at the height of Avengers popularity, and dealt with what became a turning point for the McU: S.H.I.E.L.D.
had been infiltrated by the evil Hydra, and the organization that built and...