Category Archives: This Week on TV

Spoiler Alert! Well. That’s it, then. Goodbye, Agents of Shield. It’s been a wild ride, and a fun seven seasons. I enjoyed all the callbacks to the beginning, and the display of how things, and people, have changed so much. … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert! In one week, I will be saying goodbye to This Week on TV for I-Have-No-Idea-How-Long. There have been summer breaks, week-long breaks, and Holiday Droughts, and the immense gap between seasons, but I’ve always had something to look … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert! You know the thing about ending a series, and knowing it’s ending well ahead of time? You get to take everything you’ve built up, and systematically nuke it all. It’s like when kids build houses and castles out … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert! Wow. That was just… wow. Agents of Shield finally did a Groundhog Day episode, and it was exciting, scary, mysterious, hilarious, tender, thrilling, triumphant, and very, very sad, all in one. This has been an amazing show, and … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert! Agents of Shield only has a few episodes left, and they’re still setting up their ultimate showdown of agents vs bad guys. The final mission is easily the biggest doozy of them all. I am sad to see … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert! Despite the gravity of the subject matter, this week’s Agents of Shield was a fairly lighthearted, spoofy homage to the 80’s movies, and robot movies especially. I suppose, as the halfway point of the final season, this was … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert! Agents of Shield has never shied away from putting its characters through a wringer that even sadists might blanch at. It reaches personal highs and lows of epic proportions. And now, halfway though the final season, they managed … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert! Things actually manage to take a turn for the even-worse on Agents of Shield, building us up towards the halfway point of the season and the series grand finale beyond that. Agents of Shield 7.05, “A Trout in … Continue reading →

Spoiler Alert! So, Agents of Shield is trucking its way through the final season, and they managed to both do and not do precisely what I thought they would, while also doing something else entirely… so it is and isn’t … Continue reading →