Agents of SHIELD Stars Agree The Show Improved With Less MCU Connections

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Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen agree that Agents of SHIELD improved once it began having fewer MCU connections and focused on telling its own story.



Agents of SHIELD improved once the show stopped connecting too heavily into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to stars Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen. When Agents of SHIELD began in 2013, the series was sold as a show that took place within the MCU, with the revival of Phil Coulson after his death in The Avengers, a key piece of the marketing. The first season was loaded with MCU references, but the reception wasn't as strong, until the show's connection to Captain America: The Winter Soldier changed its future.

Season 1's big MCU tie-in saw Agents of SHIELD deal with the Hydra twist from Winter Soldier, with Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) and John Garrett (Bill Paxton) revealed to be Hydra sleeper agents. The connections continued with Samuel L. Jackson appearing in the season finale, while seasons 1 and 2 brought Jaime Alexander to the small screen as Lady Sif. Season 2 even included a tie-in to Avengers: Age of Ultron, but that was one of the last times the MCU movies significantly impacted the series. And according to two of the stars, this was for the best.

Prior to Agents of SHIELD's series finale, the cast participated in a press event and discussed the lack of connectivity to the MCU movies in recent seasons. As shared by TVLine, Natalia Cordova-Buckley mentioned that she “would have loved for the movies and our world to connect” more than they did, but Wen and Gregg didn't agree. Wen said that the early connections to the MCU movies hampered the writers, even though Gregg still thinks the season 1 twist works well. Once the show managed to break free of the movie connections, the two stars agree that Agents of SHIELD became a better show.