Mission complete

GET READY FOR AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.’S ENDGAME…

Launched in 2013, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. marked the MCU’s first foray into TV. For seven years, the elite spies have battled baddies like HYDRA, the Kree and now the semi-robotic Chronicoms. Revolving around a team led by the resurrected Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) and the formidable Agent May (Ming-Na Wen), the show’s final season sends our heroes back in time so they can save Earth’s future.

Coulson technically died in S5 – was bringing him back as a ‘Life Model Decoy’ hard to justify? JEFFREY BELL (exec producer):

When LMD Coulson showed up at the end of Season 6, we were all so happy to see him. This is a fresh start for the character and his relationships with everyone else. Bringing Coulson back gives us the chance to dive into all those Blade Runner questions: what does it mean to be alive? How long do I have? Who made me, and what’s my role in the world?

Agent May is the series’ other emotional anchor… What’s been most satisfying about playing her? MING-NA WEN (May):

What’s been really wonderful is how the writers have sculpted her. The big surprise for me was how they made her very maternal, and yet showed it through her actions, rather than through her words or hugs or anything that would be the normal maternal instinct.

S7 involves time travel… what rules did you set for yourselves?

JB:

There was a lot of back and forth about what we could and couldn’t say. We didn’t want to contradict or step on anything that happened with the time jump between the last two Avengers movies. So by taking our characters back to 1931, we can tell stories without having to worry about crossing streams.