Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 2, Episode 18 Review

Wow. Mike Peterson looks menacing.
Agent May is a character I've never been particularly fond of. She had her awesome badass moments, she had some great lines and the actress always seems to be having fun playing her. However, what is her deal recently? Is she betraying Coulson? Is she really siding with the 'real' SHIELD - or just SHIELD now, with Coulson and co on the run. What's her game? I have no idea and I hope this gets explained soon. The series is hard enough to follow with three million plot points as it is. Adding a new one in won't help.
Anyway, I want to focus on the good of this episode - the scenes between Cal and Skye/Daisy are brilliant. Not just incredibly well-written and well-performed by the actors, but also feeling like the most natural and human interactions Agents of SHIELD has ever done, maybe even being the most human of the whole MCU, but having not seen Dardevil, I want to give that a chance.
The scenes just felt so nice and natural. Cal's constant disappointment about the changing world around him, Skye imagining what a life with her parents could have been like, Cal reminiscing about his plans for bringing up his daughter, their whole conversation about getting ice cream - it all felt incredibly nice and simple, and almost real in a sense.
These scenes may have been a small part of a single episode, but they really stood out to me as being truly fantastic. Or maybe I'm just soppy.
The whole Coulson teaming up with Ward was intriguing, although its another element that is running through into next week so I won't say too much as this point, but Clark Gregg's wonderful line of "hey sweetie" made the episode. It must be impossibly not to chuckle at that bit.
Overall, I really enjoyed Agents of SHIELD this week. A really fantastic episode. 9/10

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