James Philbrick

  These past few episodes have proven how far Agents of SHIELD has come over the past 4 seasons. The Framework has given us wonderful insights on the characters and certainly leaves the audience with much to think about. Agents of SHIELD is currently at the top of its game and we are seeing characters and plots from the entire season finally paying off. This episode starts off with Coulson and Mace, aka the Patriot, staging a car crash so they can get a Hydra bus to pull over. They hoped to find Skye and another mysterious prisoner, but they were unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Mace and Ward don’t trust Simmons because they think she is hiding something. Simmons decides to tell Ward and Mace the truth and they don’t take it well. Mace refuses to believe people died for nothing and Ward refuses to believe he isn’t real. Inside the Framework, Elizabeth Henstridge as Simmons has shined. I love her portrayal of Simmons while she is inside the character and she brings a certa...

Daisy struggles to adapt to the Framework. Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD has tackled a lot of famous Marvel storylines and this week the show tried something very bold. Marvel Comic's “What If?” series takes famous stories and characters and asks the question of “What if instead of this happening, this happens?”. Marvel has tackled famous questions like, “What if Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four?” or “What if Captain America hadn’t vanished during World War 2?”. Now, Agents of SHIELD asks, “What if the world was taken over by Hydra?” The answer results in a thrilling episode and a fresh take on some of our favorite characters. In the previous episode, Daisy and Simmons enter the Framework, a computer programmed world, with a job to find their friends and meet at the extraction point to escape the virtual reality. We learned Daisy is in a relationship with Ward, Coulson is a high school teacher, Mack is enjoying a quiet life and has a child, Fitz is successful and in a r...