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Агенты щита
4 сезон
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Showrunners	Джед Уэдон Maurissa Tancharoen Jeffrey Bell
Starring	Clark Gregg Ming-Na Wen Chloe Bennet Iain De Caestecker Elizabeth Henstridge Henry Simmons John Hannah
No. of episodes	22
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 20, 2016 (2016-09-20) – May 16, 2017 (2017-05-16)
Season chronology

Четвертый сезон американских телевизионных агентов Shield , основанный на Marvel Comics Shield организации Shield , следует за Филом Коулсоном и другими агентами и союзниками Shield после подписания Соковии . Он установлен в кинематографической вселенной Marvel (MCU) и признает непрерывность фильмов франшизы . Сезон был продюсирован ABC Studios , Marvel Television и Mutant Enegy Productions , с Джед Уэдон , Маурисса Танчароен и Джеффри Белл , которые работали в качестве шоураннеров .

Кларк Грегг повторяет свою роль Коулсона из сериала «Фильм», в главных ролях вместе с завсегдатающими сериалами Минг-На Вэнь , Хлоя Беннет , Иэн де Кестекер , Элизабет Хенстридж и Генри Симмонс . К ним присоединился Джон Ханна , который был повышен от его повторяющейся гостевой роли в третьем сезоне . Четвертый сезон был заказан в марте 2016 года, и производство состоится с июля до следующего апреля. Из -за своего расписания трансляции сезон был разделен на три «стручки»: Ghost Rider для первых восьми эпизодов с повторяющейся приглашенной звездой Габриэлем Луной в роли сверхъестественного Робби Рейеса / Призрачного гонщика и изучения мистики в MCU вместе с фильмом Доктор Стр . 2016); LMD , ссылаясь на программу New Life Model Decoy , для следующих семи эпизодов, которые сосредоточены на повторяющейся приглашенной звезде Мэллори Янсен как LMD AIDA ; и агенты Hydra для последних семи эпизодов, частично установленных в виртуальной реальности « что если », которая позволила вернуть бывшую серию обычного Бретта Далтона как Грант Уорд . На сезон также затронуты события фильма «Капитан Америка: Гражданская война» (2016), и продолжает сюжетные линии, основанные в отмененом агенте серии Картер .

The first episode premiered at a screening on September 19, 2016, with the season then airing for 22 episodes on ABC, from September 20, 2016, until May 16, 2017. The premiere debuted to 3.58 million viewers, down from previous season premieres but average for the series. Critical response to the season was positive, with many feeling that each pod was better than the last and in particular praising the visual effects and tone of Ghost Rider, the writing and acting of LMD, and the character development and political commentary explored during Agents of Hydra. The season saw series low viewership, but was still considered to have solved ABC's problem during its new Friday night timeslot, and the series was renewed for a fifth season in May 2017.

Episodes

Main article: List of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
Ghost Rider
67	1	"The Ghost"	Billy Gierhart	Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen	September 20, 2016 (2016-09-20)	3.44
Former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Daisy Johnson, now the vigilante "Quake", is hunting gang affiliates of the terrorist group Watchdogs in Los Angeles when Aryan Brotherhood members are murdered by the fiery "Ghost Rider". Agents Phil Coulson and Alphonso Mackenzie, who were forbidden from searching for Daisy by new S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Jeffrey Mace, are tipped off to her location by Agent Melinda May. Agent Leo Fitz discovers that S.H.I.E.L.D. ally Holden Radcliffe has created the android Aida, and agrees to help perfect her. He keeps this from his girlfriend Agent Jemma Simmons, who is in the Director's inner circle. Simmons discovers that Coulson and Mack are investigating Daisy, and orders May to stop them. The latter arrives to find them surveilling Chinese gangsters who bought a weapon off the Brotherhood: a mystical figure, who turns the gang members berserk, and secretly infects May as well. Daisy tracks down the Ghost Rider, but it defeats her. She later sees its human form, mechanic Robbie Reyes, looking after his disabled brother Gabe.
68	2	"Meet the New Boss"	Vincent Misiano	Drew Z. Greenberg	September 27, 2016 (2016-09-27)	2.95
S.H.I.E.L.D. and Daisy independently investigate the figure, an apparent ghost of a woman named Lucy Bauer, both concluding that she worked at an abandoned facility, Momentum Energy. Daisy confronts Reyes again, and he once more overpowers her. Restraining her, Reyes searches Daisy's belongings and discovers her research on Momentum. He leaves, and Daisy escapes her restraints. As Mace plans to officially announce S.H.I.E.L.D. as a legitimate organization again, the infected May grows increasingly paranoid, seeing all people as monsters, and eventually attacking other agents. Mace restrains May with his Inhuman strength, and promises to take care of her. Mack and Fitz arrive at Momentum to find more ghosts, who attempt to blow it up with them inside. Ghost Rider intervenes, destroying one of the ghosts, and Daisy arrives to stop S.H.I.E.L.D. from taking him in. Rather than rejoin S.H.I.E.L.D., Daisy agrees to work with Reyes, who believes that the actions of the ghosts and Watchdogs may be tied to him.
69	3	"Uprising"	Magnus Martens	Craig Titley	October 11, 2016 (2016-10-11)	2.68
Inhuman S.H.I.E.L.D. asset Elena Rodriguez is caught in a blackout in Miami. Reyes and Daisy are caught in another in Los Angeles. A group claiming to be the Inhuman resistance, fighting registration with the Sokovia Accords, take responsibility. Reyes explains that his uncle, Eli Morrow, was imprisoned for causing an explosion at Momentum that apparently created the ghosts; he believes that atoning for Morrow's sins will pay his debt to the Devil, and rid Reyes of the Ghost Rider. At the Reyes' house, Gabe realizes that Daisy is Quake and asks her to leave Robbie alone. Radcliffe and Simmons "cure" May by killing and reviving her. Coulson, Mack, and Fitz save Rodriguez from a group of Watchdogs, and find the EMP that caused the blackout—it was set off by the Watchdogs, who had access to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s list of registered Inhumans, and have backing from Senator Ellen Nadeer, whose brother Vijay Nadeer is encased in an Inhuman terrigen cocoon. Hoping to assuage public fears of the Inhumans, Mace announces the return of S.H.I.E.L.D.
70	4	"Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire"	Brad Turner	Matt Owens	October 18, 2016 (2016-10-18)	2.34
Daisy coerces Simmons to help track the Watchdogs' actions, discovering that the group hacked the Inhuman list using an Inhuman's monitoring device. Coulson visits Morrow in prison, but gets no answers. Reyes arrives to talk to Morrow, and Mack recognizes him as the Ghost Rider; they capture Reyes and earn his trust. He visits Morrow, and learns that the Momentum explosion was caused by a group of scientists studying the Darkhold, a mysterious book. Only Lucy's husband Joseph, whom Morrow had put in a coma trying to stop the experiments, survived. Daisy and Simmons find the next Inhuman on the list, J. T. James, and destroy his monitor, but he betrays them—he hates being an Inhuman and is aiding the Watchdogs. Coulson and Mack, alerted by the monitor's destruction, arrive to save Daisy and Simmons. The Ghost Rider defeats James. They then get May to help find the Darkhold. Aida supervised May's recovery as a Turing test by Radcliffe, but Simmons deduces her true nature, while being set to take a lie-detection test for Mace.
71	5	"Lockup"	Kate Woods	Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman	October 25, 2016 (2016-10-25)	2.30
Lucy uses her ghostly state to wake Joseph and ask where he hid the Darkhold. Coulson arrives, and is able to learn of this before Joseph dies from her "infection". Coulson decides to use Morrow against Lucy, but doesn't tell Mace. The latter, whose public approval was high after heroics during a bombing in Vienna, becomes more popular after he reveals his Inhuman status in a television debate with Nadeer. However, Simmons threatens to reveal the truth about his Vienna actions, and he agrees to exempt her from any lie-detection tests. At the prison, Lucy infects the staff, who attack Coulson and May. Daisy saves them while Mack and Reyes break Morrow out. Reyes confronts the last member of the "Fifth Street Locos" gang who had paralyzed Gabe in a paid hit. Reyes loses control, and the Ghost Rider kills the prisoner. This allows Lucy to kidnap Morrow, whose help she needs. Mace secretly meets with Nadeer, and agrees to help her when she blackmails him with footage of the Ghost Rider's actions while working with S.H.I.E.L.D.
72	6	"The Good Samaritan"	Billy Gierhart	Jeffrey Bell	November 1, 2016 (2016-11-01)	2.43
Mace sends Simmons on a secret assignment, then takes a team to board Coulson's plane and arrest Reyes and Daisy. The pair hide with a newly picked up Gabe, where Robbie explains that he and Gabe sneaked out to race in Morrow's car, but they were attacked by the Locos. Gabe was paralyzed and Robbie was killed. Robbie promised an unknown voice that he would seek vengeance if given a second chance, and was resurrected when the spirit of the Ghost Rider was passed to him by a stranger. Mace finds the fugitives, but is overpowered by the Ghost Rider. He agrees to use Robbie against Lucy, and Fitz tracks her to an abandoned Roxxon power plant. May takes and hides the Darkhold while Robbie destroys Lucy, after the latter reveals that Morrow craves the Darkhold's power himself—his own experiments created the ghosts, and Joseph had ordered the hit on Morrow's car to stop him. Morrow now uses an improved version of the Momentum machine to gain the power to create matter. Robbie, Fitz, and Coulson disappear.
73	7	"Deals with Our Devils"	Jesse Bochco	DJ Doyle	November 29, 2016 (2016-11-29)	2.41
Coulson, Fitz, and Reyes are trapped between dimensions, and helplessly watch as Morrow kills several agents and escapes. Fitz overhears Mace arguing with Nadeer; he needs Simmons to understand Morrow's technology, but she has been taken to Nadeer's brother, Vijay, who she helps escape from his terrigen cocoon. In Simmons' absence, Radcliffe studies the technology, and is presented with the Darkhold by May in her desperation to save Coulson. Radcliffe believes the book contains too much knowledge for a person to process, but Aida is able to read it, revealing her android nature to Coulson and May. Aida constructs a portal through which Coulson and Fitz return. During this time, the Ghost Rider spirit had left Reyes and possessed Mack to avoid the other dimension, where it had been before. Reyes confronts the spirit, promising to serve it even after they defeat Morrow if it leaves Mack. It agrees, and Reyes returns with it through the portal. Secretly, Aida begins experimenting with her new knowledge from the Darkhold, creating an artificial brain.
74	8	"The Laws of Inferno Dynamics"	Kevin Tancharoen	Paul Zbyszewski	December 6, 2016 (2016-12-06)	2.37
Coulson tells Mace that Aida is an android and he agrees to use her in the fight against Morrow. He also approves a strike team consisting of Rodriguez, Reyes, and Daisy, as long as the latter two keep a low profile. The team attempts to enter an abandoned building in which Morrow has barricaded himself via his growing abilities but, at first, only Reyes can make it through Morrow's initial trap. By viewing Reyes' body-cam, Fitz deduces that Morrow is drawing his power from the other dimension and has created a demon core that could destroy half the city if activated. Aida creates a new dimensional portal beneath the demon core, through which the device and Morrow are dragged. Reyes also falls through the portal after using the Ghost Rider to hold Morrow in place. Daisy is seen by local media and Mace publicly clears her name, reinstating her as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. He then allows Radcliffe to continuing working on his Life Model Decoy (LMD) program after his success with Aida, who has secretly replaced May with an LMD.
LMD
75	9	"Broken Promises"	Garry A. Brown	Brent Fletcher	January 10, 2017 (2017-01-10)	2.72
Fitz and Radcliffe are sent to clear Aida's memory of the Darkhold, but she reveals her new-found sentience and overpowers them. Taking control of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s systems, Aida finds the Darkhold after Coulson gives its location to the May LMD (which doesn't know it isn't the real May). Fitz is able to take control of the systems before Aida escapes and Mack beheads her. Radcliffe later laments about this to a new model of Aida, as he had programmed the original's apparent sentience in an attempt to steal the Darkhold for himself. Senator Nadeer orders a group of Watchdogs to kill a now recovered Vijay, but he convinces her to spare him as his long terrigenesis appears not to have affected him. Simmons, having identified Vijay from photographs, arrives with Mace and Daisy, as Vijay discovers he now has super-reflexes. Ellen convinces him to leave with her, but then shoots him in the stomach. Ellen asks the Watchdogs for reinforcements from "The Superior" as Vijay's body is dropped into a lake and enveloped by another terrigenesis cocoon.
76	10	"The Patriot"	Kevin Tancharoen	James C. Oliver & Sharla Oliver	January 17, 2017 (2017-01-17)	2.03
Mace holds a press conference for Daisy, celebrating her "undercover" actions, until a sniper attempts to assassinate him. Coulson and Mack escort Mace and PR agent Burrows—who is often seen near Mace with a mysterious briefcase—to a quinjet, but it explodes mid-flight. Burrows is flung from the plane with the briefcase and the others crash land in a forest. There, they find ex-Hydra agents, hired by the Watchdogs, who have recovered Burrows' body. In the ensuing fight, Mace tries to get a serum from the briefcase, but it is destroyed and he is injured. Mace explains that he is not an Inhuman and that he was given his abilities by a super-serum from the government to create a trustworthy, enhanced leader of S.H.I.E.L.D. After their rescue by Daisy and the May LMD, Coulson tells Mace to continue as "the Patriot", the face and political leader of S.H.I.E.L.D, while Coulson takes back command of operations. The May LMD discovers her robotic skeleton from a wound and Fitz secretly begins studying Aida's severed head.
77	11	"Wake Up"	Jesse Bochco	Drew Z. Greenberg	January 24, 2017 (2017-01-24)	2.00
Daisy and Mace attend a Senate hearing to ratify the former's signing of the Sokovia Accords, with Senator Nadeer questioning Daisy's undercover actions. Coulson and Rodriguez infiltrate Nadeer's office to install surveillance devices, but are caught, giving Nadeer an excuse to start a full investigation of S.H.I.E.L.D. The May LMD realizes that she subconsciously leaked the details of Coulson's plan and confronts Radcliffe, as Fitz discovers Radcliffe's treachery from the original Aida's programming. Radcliffe explains to the LMD that her programming will not allow her to reveal her nature to anyone else, just before S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives and arrests him. Fitz later confronts Radcliffe in his cell and deduces that he is also an LMD—the real Radcliffe sought protection from Nadeer after Aida's initial failure. He and Aida have May captive with them, her mind in a virtual reality simulation of a tragic past event. Meanwhile, Mack and Rodriguez have grown close and he tells her of his daughter Hope from a past marriage who died as an infant.
78	12	"Hot Potato Soup"	Nina Lopez-Corrado	Craig Titley	January 31, 2017 (2017-01-31)	2.15
Agent Billy Koenig, whom Coulson entrusted with the Darkhold, is abducted by the Watchdogs. Nadeer directs Radcliffe to the Superior, reclusive industrialist Anton Ivanov, and Radcliffe scans Koenig's brain to learn that the Darkhold was hidden in the Labyrinth, a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility known only to the Koenig family. Coulson secures the rest of the Koenig family, who take him, the May LMD, and Daisy to get the book. The Radcliffe LMD reveals that Radcliffe knows Fitz's estranged father and has created another LMD. Simmons remembers that Radcliffe scanned May's brain when they were curing her of Lucy's influence and warns Daisy of the May LMD in time to stop it from taking the Darkhold and killing Coulson. The Watchdogs arrive with Billy and Radcliffe steals the Darkhold in the ensuing fight. S.H.I.E.L.D. later destroys the remains of the first Aida and the Radcliffe LMD. Ivanov explains to Radcliffe that he plans to use the Darkhold to destroy both the Inhumans and the man who appears to be behind the recent alien crises—Coulson.
79	13	"BOOM"	Billy Gierhart	Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman	February 7, 2017 (2017-02-07)	2.08
Coulson and Mack locate Agnes Kitsworth, Radcliffe's former lover and partner. Radcliffe left Kitsworth after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and modeled Aida after her. Coulson convinces Kitsworth to meet with Radcliffe. In case Nadeer is an Inhuman like her brother, Ivanov sends Watchdog Tucker Shockley to expose her to terrigen (provided by Radcliffe), but the substance transforms him instead. Shockley explodes, killing Nadeer, and then his molecules reassemble. Ivanov agrees to use Shockley's new ability against S.H.I.E.L.D. Radcliffe meets with Kitsworth and convinces her he can save her life if she escapes with him before S.H.I.E.L.D. captures them. Daisy confronts Shockley, and distracts him long enough for Fitz and Simmons to contain him in a specially-made device. Ivanov uses this as a distraction to attack and kidnap Mace, who has learned that each time he uses his super-serum there is a chance that it will kill him. As Kitsworth dies of the cancer, Radcliffe places her consciousness in the virtual "Framework" with May.
80	14	"The Man Behind the Shield"	Wendey Stanzler	Matt Owens	February 14, 2017 (2017-02-14)	2.13
Years ago, Coulson and May recovered an unknown object from a Russian outpost, besting an SVR team that included Ivanov. For the failure, the SVR agents other than Ivanov were tortured and killed. Now, Ivanov leads S.H.I.E.L.D. on a treasure hunt around the world, including to that outpost, in their search for Mace. Ivanov has been torturing Mace, disgusted at his attempts to emulate the Inhumans. The team eventually finds Ivanov, and Daisy overpowers him. Coulson and Mack save a near-death Mace while Fitz and Simmons attempt to locate any sign of the Framework in hopes of finding May. Unsuccessful, the pair reunite with the others and they return to base. Aida, whom Radcliffe has left to carry out his plans while he spends time in the Framework, finds a crippled Ivanov. At base, Fitz and Simmons are alerted by their LMD security system, learning that four agents were replaced with LMDs by Aida while Fitz and Simmons were separated from the group. This includes Coulson, as the Coulson LMD wakes the May LMD from storage.
81	15	"Self Control"	Jed Whedon	Jed Whedon	February 21, 2017 (2017-02-21)	2.01
The new LMDs are aware of their nature, and plan to carry out Ivanov's goal of destroying all Inhumans. Simmons discovers that Mace, Mack, and Fitz are the other new LMDs, and overpowers Fitz. Daisy also discovers them, and plans with Simmons to hack into the Framework remotely to find the others from the inside. Aida kills Radcliffe's body, but lets his consciousness live in the Framework. Daisy overpowers the Mace, Mack, and Coulson LMDs, but they find the May LMD waiting for them at the base entrance, tasked with detonating a large explosive to prevent their escape. The May LMD instead lets them leave, and destroys the base with the LMDs inside. In the Framework, the agents find an altered reality: Daisy is in a relationship with an alive Grant Ward; Coulson is teaching about Inhumans; Hope is alive with Mack; Fitz is rich; Simmons is dead; and May works for Hydra, which has replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. In the real world, Aida is able to sever Ivanov's living head from his crippled body and builds android bodies for his mind to control.
Agents of Hydra
82	16	"What If..."	Oz Scott	DJ Doyle	April 4, 2017 (2017-04-04)	2.15
In the Framework, Daisy discovers that she and Ward are agents of Hydra, working under May and Fitz. The tragic event from May's past has no longer happened; in the real world, she killed Katya Belyakov, a young Inhuman girl, but in the Framework, she brought the girl back to the United States as a refugee who then became a mass murderer and the catalyst for Hydra to take power. Simmons awakens in a mass grave of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and eventually comes across Coulson, who is teaching a Hydra-approved curriculum that warns against the dangers of Inhumans. Simmons is unable to convince Coulson that he is inside a virtual simulation and he calls Hydra. Daisy races to find Simmons before the rest of Hydra and is followed by Ward, who reveals himself to be a mole inside Hydra for the Resistance. Daisy and Simmons try to exit the Framework using a safeguard the latter created, but it has been blocked by Aida, who has entered the Framework as the Director of Hydra and Fitz's lover. Daisy then goes to Coulson and he remembers her name.
83	17	"Identity and Change"	Garry A. Brown	George Kitson	April 11, 2017 (2017-04-11)	2.32
Hoping Radcliffe can help them escape, Daisy returns to Hydra and locates him, but May gives her a new mission on the orders of Fitz and Aida, the latter choosing to go by Ophelia, or Madame Hydra. Ward directs Coulson (who can remember some things, thanks to previous tampering with his mind) and Simmons to the Resistance, the remnants of S.H.I.E.L.D. under the command of an Inhuman Mace. Ward, Simmons, and Coulson take a stolen Hydra quinjet to extract Radcliffe. May and Daisy arrest Mack, and May forces him to trick Daisy into confessing her true allegiance. The others find Radcliffe living in seclusion with Kitsworth, and he explains that he and Kitsworth cannot leave the Framework due to their real bodies having died. Fitz and Madame Hydra arrive, and Radcliffe attempts to appeal to Fitz, though Fitz already knows of the "other world" and that Radcliffe had enslaved Aida there. He kills Kitsworth and imprisons Radcliffe, torturing him and Daisy. Regretting his actions, Mack joins the Resistance.
84	18	"No Regrets"	Eric Laneuville	Paul Zbyszewski	April 18, 2017 (2017-04-18)	2.43
Mace and Coulson infiltrate a Hydra "Enlightenment Camp" to free an undercover agent—Antoine Triplett, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who died in the real world. They are tracked there by May, who uses a super serum to fight Mace. Through the vents in their holding cells, Daisy learns from Radcliffe of a backdoor he installed to escape the Framework that Aida is unable to disable. Coulson attempts to save one of his former students who he sees being held in the camp, and Mace follows him into a building to help. Hydra uses a missile to bring the building down, and May enters the rubble to ensure Mace is dead. She finds him stopping debris from crushing the student, with Coulson and Triplett helping other children escape the building. May is horrified to find children being victimized by Hydra. With the others having escaped to safety, Mace is crushed beneath the debris, and in the real world Aida finds his physical body dead as well. Turning on Hydra, May sneaks a Terrigen crystal to Daisy so she can gain her Inhuman abilities within the Framework.
85	19	"All the Madame's Men"	Billy Gierhart	James C. Oliver & Sharla Oliver	April 25, 2017 (2017-04-25)	2.15
May and Daisy escape Hydra, with Daisy using her abilities to break Ophelia's back. Ophelia insists that Fitz complete work on their secret Project: Looking Glass, after which her Framework body will no longer matter. May and Daisy join up with S.H.I.E.L.D., who are struggling to regroup after Mace's death. May provides them with body cam footage from the attack on the Enlightenment Center, which Coulson broadcasts to the world to counteract Hydra's propaganda. Meanwhile, Simmons and Triplett investigate a Russian oil platform which he believes is the location of Looking Glass from his time undercover; the platform is the Framework equivalent of Ivanov's oil platform in the real world, from where Aida is running the Framework. The pair find the platform empty, and Simmons deduces that Looking Glass consists of a machine built on the real world platform, to be connected to a machine in the Framework using knowledge from the Darkhold, allowing Ophelia to go from the Framework to a true human body in the real world.
86	20	"Farewell, Cruel World!"	Vincent Misiano	Brent Fletcher	May 2, 2017 (2017-05-02)	2.15
After Daisy and Simmons entered the Framework, their bodies were protected by Rodriguez and Agents Piper, Davis and Prince aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft Zephyr One. With their connection to the Framework draining the plane's power, Piper chose to shut off its cloaking ability, revealing their location to Ivanov and his men. In the Framework, Simmons visits and accidentally kills Fitz's father Alistair, and Fitz begins hunting her with help from Radcliffe, Fitz having offered to send Radcliffe through the machine, restoring his living body. Ophelia initiates her transference into her new body. Daisy takes the group to Radcliffe's exit point, where she, Coulson, and May cross back into the real world. Fitz arrives and confronts Simmons, but is overpowered by Radcliffe, who regrets all his actions since he first saw and wanted the Darkhold. Radcliffe sends Fitz through, followed by Simmons. Mack decides to stay, not wanting to live in a world without Hope. At Ivanov's platform, the newly human Ophelia confronts Coulson, May, and Fitz, teleporting away with the latter.
87	21	"The Return"	Kevin Tancharoen	Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon	May 9, 2017 (2017-05-09)	2.14
The agents on Zephyr One fight off Ivanov's men and race to the platform to save Coulson and May from Ivanov's android bodies. Ivanov launches torpedoes at the platform that threaten Mack's body, but the latter is saved by Ophelia, convinced by Fitz to put to good use the Inhuman abilities his machine had given her new body. In isolation at S.H.I.E.L.D., Fitz and Ophelia discuss her newly discovered human emotions and the fact that he remembers all the terrible things he did inside the Framework. He admits that he ultimately still loves Simmons over her, outraging Ophelia. Glenn Talbot arrives at the ruined S.H.I.E.L.D. base, where Ophelia kills several of his soldiers and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents including Prince. Coulson and the others flee in the Zephyr once more, while Ophelia returns to Ivanov, who plans to use knowledge from the Darkhold to apply the changed reality of the Framework to the real world. Meanwhile, Rodriguez enters the Framework herself to try to convince Mack to leave, and the Ghost Rider returns through a portal from the other dimension.
88	22	"World's End"	Billy Gierhart	Jeffrey Bell	May 16, 2017 (2017-05-16)	2.08
Ivanov takes the Darkhold to an international meeting on S.H.I.E.L.D. and the recent events. He proposes to use the book against the Inhumans, which is timed with an attack on the group by an LMD of Daisy, who shoots Talbot in the head leaving him comatose. In the ensuing fight, S.H.I.E.L.D. is able to retrieve the Darkhold with Reyes' help. In the Framework, Rodriguez is unable to convince Mack to leave, but he returns with her after Hope's code is deleted as a result of Ophelia shutting down the Framework. Radcliffe is also deleted, after accepting that immortality without Kitsworth is worthless. Ophelia comes for the Darkhold, and Coulson surprises her by unleashing the Spirit of Vengeance himself, having made a deal to become the Ghost Rider for a short time. He incinerates Ophelia. Reyes, now the Ghost Rider again, takes the Darkhold through a portal. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents then wait to be arrested by the government, but are instead taken by a mysterious group. Some time later, Coulson finds himself on a space station.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. characters

Main

• Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson
• Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May
• Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson / Quake
• Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz
• Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons
• Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie
• John Hannah as Holden Radcliffe

Recurring

• Gabriel Luna as Robbie Reyes / Ghost Rider
• Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez
• Lorenzo James Henrie as Gabe Reyes
• Mallory Jansen as Aida / "Ophelia" / Madame Hydra
• Lilli Birdsell as Lucy Bauer
• Jason O'Mara as Jeffrey Mace / Patriot
• Parminder Nagra as Ellen Nadeer
• Patrick Cavanaugh as Burrows
• José Zúñiga as Eli Morrow
• Adrian Pasdar as Glenn Talbot
• Zach McGowan as Anton Ivanov / The Superior
• Brett Dalton as Grant Ward
• Jordan Rivera as Hope Mackenzie

Notable guests

• Axle Whitehead as J. T. James / Hellfire
• Patton Oswalt as Billy, Sam and Thurston Koenig
• B. J. Britt as Antoine Triplett
• Adam Kulbersh as Kenneth Turgeon
• Simon Kassianides as Sunil Bakshi

Production

Development

The series was renewed for a fourth season on March 3, 2016, earlier than usual for the series. Executive producer Jed Whedon said on this, "We're thrilled to know going into the end of [season 3] with certainty that we will be returning, because we can build our story accordingly." Executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen also noted that logistics for hiring directors for the season in advance would be easier, "which is a very nice privilege to have...that's a luxury." The end of the episode "What If..." features an onscreen tribute to Bill Paxton, who died in February 2017 and had portrayed John Garrett in the series' first season. The series paid additional tribute to Paxton in "All the Madame's Men" with promos during The Bakshi Report news segment showcasing John Garrett as a fallen American hero. The end of "World's End" features a similar onscreen tribute to Powers Boothe, who died in May 2017 and had portrayed Gideon Malick in the series' third season.

Writing

The season shifted to the later 10 pm timeslot, allowing it to take on a darker, more mature tone than previous seasons. According to Tancharoen, "The whole tagline for this year is 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. After Dark'." The timeslot gave the series the opportunity to present an increased level of violence and partial nudity, as well as take more risks and present edgier themes. Following the third-season finale, Tancharoen stated that the fourth season would explore the guilt Daisy Johnson has over Lincoln Campbell's death. Executive producer Jeffrey Bell noted the writers tried to continue the tradition of "finding new combinations and new conflicts" between different sets of characters, given "a lot of procedurals [see] the same people doing the same thing for five years". Pairings that would be explored included Coulson and Mack, continuing from the end of season three, who have a mutual respect for one another due to their relationships with Daisy, and Leo Fitz and Holden Radcliffe, who work together. The Fitz-Simmons relationship was also explored more, examining the new challenges it presented for the two "working together, loving each other and living together."

Following the third season's dealing with the themes of Captain America: Civil War, such as the opposing reactions to the Inhumans, Whedon said that the question of "How do you deal with a war with powered people at that level, a government level?" was one that they wanted to answer in the fourth season. Tancharoen called the Inhumans "a permanent part of our universe now", with Whedon adding, "we have a quick-fire way of introducing people with powers. It gives us a lot of leeway in our world, and it lets us explore the metaphors of what it is like to be different. We will never close that chapter." With the Inhumans film being removed from Marvel Studios' release schedule, the series had "a little more freedom" and were "able to do a little bit more" with the species, including the potential of introducing some of the "classic" Inhumans, though the series would focus less on Inhumans than the third season which saw "a real significant Inhuman agenda story". It was not intended to be a spin-off of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. On the evolution of S.H.I.E.L.D. to featuring so many powered characters, Whedon said "the dynamic in the world has changed. There was one person with powers, and then by The Avengers there were maybe six total ... now they're much more prevalent, so there's reaction from the public based on that."

The season is structured into three "pods" based on its airing schedule: the first eight episodes, subtitled Ghost Rider; LMD (Life Model Decoy) for the subsequent seven episodes; and a third pod for the final seven episodes called Agents of Hydra. Elements and characters cross over between the different pods, but the sections "definitely have a different feel" from one another, as Bell explained that 22 episodes "is a long time to hold a big bad or a single plot line, especially for an audience", and for the past two seasons, the series was able to have two separated halves that "allows us to introduce a big bad. And then, something happens and we rise somebody new ... Now, there's three of those." "Financial considerations" were also taken into account in creating the pods for the season, as using LMDs does not "cost as much as setting a guy's head on fire via CGI". In terms of writing the "complicated season", Whedon said the writers were "aware that our fans are our fans and have spent some time with these characters and are clever and see things coming sometimes ... Part of our job is to create not just what we are presenting on plot, but letting the audience be one step ahead of us and being one step ahead of that." He added that the writers knew that they wanted to tell a Ghost Rider story, an LMD story, and a "what if" scenario, and the hardest part was making each pod still fit together as a single season. The major connection ultimately became the Darkhold, which leads from the magic of Ghost Rider to the advanced science of LMD and then the Framework in Agents of Hydra. Ghost Rider also reappears in the final episode of the season, "World's End", as an additional connection.

Ghost Rider

While planning the fourth season, Marvel suggested that the series introduce Ghost Rider, after the character's film rights had returned to Marvel from Sony in May 2013. Loeb felt that this made the season unquestionably "the series' biggest" with the "most ambitious story yet". He added that "one of the things that we talked about is, S.H.I.E.L.D. always looked out for the weird, the unusual, the things that were and could be a problem for the public," and Marvel realized that Ghost Rider's abilities, which are more mystical than anything seen in the series to date, opened up "a quarter of the universe that we haven't really spent a lot of time exploring ... what happens if our very real, our very grounded agents who are very much a family have to take on something that is as bizarre and powerful and unique as Ghost Rider." Bell added that the producers would have been willing to give an entire season of the show to a Ghost Rider arc if the season was 13 episodes or less, but 22 episodes seemed too long to "feel like one flavor".

The Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider was chosen over other versions of the character from the comics because of his relationship with his brother Gabe, which Loeb said harkened back to the familial nature of the series. This also helped the series distance itself from the Ghost Rider films from Sony that starred Nicolas Cage as the Johnny Blaze version of the character, with Bell describing the series' take as more grounded than Cage's "larger-than-life version". During the series' take on Reyes' origin story, another Ghost Rider appears. While unnamed onscreen, Luna believed it was meant to be Johnny Blaze and that unspecified legal issues prevented this from being made explicit. This Ghost Rider was portrayed by Tom McComas during filming. Given the disparity between the other science-based aspects of the series and the mystical Ghost Rider in the season, Whedon noted that "some very advanced technology [would be developed] this season, and maybe–as that becomes more advanced and we have strange people... possessed people–those things somehow merge down the line." As part of combining technology and mysticism, the series depicts Hell as another dimension that can be reached through a portal, and the Ghost Rider's Spirit of Vengeance as a being from that other dimension.

Marvel trusted the producers of S.H.I.E.L.D. with creating and using Ghost Rider how they wanted to, but did ask them "to be true to what it is" in the comics. They looked to do this by taking the original elements from the comic, but putting their own spin on them. This included Reyes' uncle Eli, who is the spirit possessing Reyes in the comic, appearing as an external villain. Reyes is instead possessed by the Spirit of Vengeance, which is passed to him by another Ghost Rider; in the comics, multiple Ghost Riders exist at once, but for the series this was changed so the power can only be used by one at a time, and they pass it on to the next Ghost Rider.

LMD

Since the beginning of the show, the producers had wanted to introduce the concept of LMDs, which Marvel Television head Jeph Loeb noted "have always been part of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s history in the comics". However, they were unable to before Avengers: Age of Ultron, which sees the introductions of Ultron and Vision in a similar manner to LMDs. For the fourth season, they particularly pushed the idea, and Whedon noted that the introduction of Ghost Rider and mysticism allowed the series to introduce new technology that could launch LMDs in a way deemed rewarding, so the Ghost Rider storyline "dovetails" into the LMD storyline. The S.H.I.E.L.D. program is introduced through the character Aida, an android. Additionally, with LMDs chosen as one of the pods for the season, Whedon said the writers questioned, "what are all the things we could do? You don't want to do the ones that have been done [in similar tropes], and you don't want to leave any on the table." One idea that "we knew we wanted to have early on" was to reveal that the majority of S.H.I.E.L.D. have been replaced at once.

Tancharoen hinted that the series would continue Age of Ultron's theme of "diving into the world of A.I. [and] things may not go as planned". On what makes Aida different from the villain Ultron, Whedon explained that "Aida started as something that was supposed to mimic human behavior. Ultron came out almost a fully fleshed-out creature with his own agenda, where she's been discovering hers along the way." He added that instead of thousands of robots, the LMDs would be presented as android versions of the other characters in the series. Whedon said of themes that are raised in the second pod, "there are issues of reality and identity. Trust is always an issue in a spy organization. It's much worse when you don't know if the person next to you is the person next to you ... When you get into trust, that's when things get emotional." The pod ends with the Melinda May LMD seemingly destroying herself and all the other known LMDs besides Aida, concluding her specific arc which explored the nature of humanity and identity. Asked if any of these LMDs survived this act, and could carry over to the third pod of the season, Whedon said "We'll see, but the idea was to put that chapter behind us."

Agents of Hydra

The third pod of the season "ties together [the season] thematically", taking the characters into the virtual world of the Framework, where their lives are different from the real world. This explores "what if" scenarios for many of the characters by showing who they may have been if a major regret of their life was changed, hence the pod's title, Agents of Hydra. This continues the season's focus on the nature of identity and reality, having "payoff[s] to all the reflection[s] on the past" such as Mack's tragic loss of his daughter and Fitz's troubled relationship with his father. Bennet called the pod "very relevant. It's definitely a theme that I think has been kind of hopping around in pop culture at the moment. But it's kind of like a fun Marvel take on that. For all those people who wished to see these characters in a different light, this is going to be the time for that to happen." Whedon felt that this storyline would not be interesting early in a series, but is rewarding after spending "80-plus episodes with these characters".

Whedon said they replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. with Hydra in the Framework to show "that this world was not what was intended, and what really symbolizes the opposite of S.H.I.E.L.D. or the ultimate evil in our world is Hydra. It's more about our people than it is about the organization itself this time around." It was noted that "the bad guy [Hydra] is in charge and Inhumans are being hunted" could be taken as a commentary on the political climate under the Presidency of Donald Trump. On approaching this subject, Tancharoen said that there was no nervousness in the writer's room, and Whedon said that the similarities to Trump's America was simply an attempt to "paint the reality where, what if the world just turned upside down?" The pod sees Hydra based out of the Triskelion, a S.H.I.E.L.D. building that was destroyed by Hydra previously in the MCU. It also features the return of the character Grant Ward to the series, with Whedon explaining, "We figured when you get dropped into an alternate reality, what better way to show that it might not be everything you imagined than the return of one of our most loved and most hated characters."

Whedon noted that the pod does not entirely take place in the Framework, and that the characters "have their full memories of what happened" once they return to the real world. Some, such as Fitz, struggle with their actions in the Framework. The producers felt the impact of the "what if" scenario comes from rooting the changes in character choices, with Bell saying, "I will give the writers room credit that everything that was chosen had an emotional resonance. It was something you hadn't seen, or wanted to see or wondered about, so for us it was really rich territory to mine." Whedon added, "It wasn't just, 'OK, let's go Wacky World!' It was, 'What if you'd made different decisions?' That made it for us a much more fun puzzle." Regarding the season finale and setting up the next season, Bell said that "Each year we've tried to reinvent the series in some way ... I think the end [of the finale] really does suggest something quite different."

Casting

John Hannah joined the series' main cast for the season, promoted from his previously recurring role.

Main cast members Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge and Henry Simmons return from previous seasons as Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Daisy Johnson / Quake, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, respectively. They are joined by John Hannah as Holden Radcliffe, promoted from his third season recurring role. Within the Framework reality, Daisy is referred to by her original name, Skye, while Fitz is also known as "The Doctor".

Also returning from earlier in the series are Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez, Axle Whitehead as J. T. James / Hellfire, Adrian Pasdar as Glenn Talbot, Ava Acres as Katya Belyakov, Patton Oswalt as Billy, Sam and Thurston Koenig, and Briana Venskus, Maximilian Osinski, and Alexander Wraith as Agents Piper, Davis, and Anderson, respectively. Agents of Hydra also sees the return of former series regular Brett Dalton as Grant Ward, along with the return of B. J. Britt as Antoine Triplett, Adam Kulbersh as Kenneth Turgeon, and Simon Kassianides as Sunil Bakshi.

Advertisements for the show ahead of the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con featuring a flaming chain led to speculation that the character Ghost Rider would be joining the series during the season, though it was noted that the image could just indicate an increased role for Whitehead after he was introduced as James in the third season, and also wields a flaming chain. When casting for two Latino brothers, "one of whom is always the most dangerous person in the room, the other paralyzed in a wheelchair", was revealed to be underway for the series in June, further speculation pointed to the inclusion of Ghost Rider, with those character descriptions resembling those for Marvel Comics' All-New Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes and his brother Gabe, respectively. At the series' Comic-Con panel, the speculation was confirmed—Gabriel Luna was announced to be cast as Robbie Reyes, and Lorenzo James Henrie was later revealed to be cast as Gabe.

Also in June, the series was looking to cast an actress for the recurring role of Aida, a robot whose artificial intelligence was briefly voiced by Amanda Rea during the third-season finale; Mallory Jansen was cast in the role that August. Jansen also portrays Agnes Kitsworth, Radcliffe's former lover and partner after whom he modeled Aida. Within the Framework reality, Aida appears as "Ophelia" / Madame Hydra, portrayed as well by Jansen. Other recurring guests revealed were Lilli Birdsell as Lucy Bauer, a worker at Momentum Energy; Jason O'Mara as Jeffrey Mace / Patriot, the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Parminder Nagra as Ellen Nadeer, an anti-Inhuman politician; and Patrick Cavanaugh as S.H.I.E.L.D. PR agent Burrows. In October 2016, José Zúñiga was revealed to be portraying Eli Morrow, the Reyes' uncle, while in January 2017, Zach McGowan was revealed as Anton Ivanov, "The Superior" of the Watchdogs. In April 2017, Jordan Rivera was revealed as Hope Mackenzie, Mack's daughter in the Framework reality. Additionally, Blaise Miller and Ricardo Walker make multiple appearances as S.H.I.E.L.D. lab tech Nathanson and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Prince.

In May 2016, Tancharoen said "we're always open" to the possibility of Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood appearing in the season, after they left the series' cast during the third season for the spin-off series Marvel's Most Wanted, which ultimately did not get picked up. Whedon reiterated in January 2017 that "Once an agent, always an agent, so it's always out there in the ether", but stated that the pair were unlikely to return during the fourth season.

Design

Each pod of the season introduces new title graphics for the series: a "hellfire"-based title card for Ghost Rider; a graphic constructed from robot circuitry for LMD; and a more traditional Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. logo for the third pod that changes onscreen to Agents of Hydra for episodes primarily set in the Framework, but remains Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. during "The Return". The Ghost Rider title card was used again for the season finale. For the Framework setting, the production team chose a specific, more "washed" out palette to clearly differentiate those scenes from the real world. This was realized through a combination of production and costume design, and cinematography.

Ghost Rider was designed by Marvel Television creative director Joshua Shaw, based on Felipe Smith's design from the comics. His jacket was then custom made by costume designer Ann Foley and her team. The character's skull design includes exhaust-type jets of flames coming from the temples to mimic the effects on his car. Foley worked with the visual effects department to ensure that the costume would not interfere with their work. Aida's costume was also custom made, and inspired by the works of Alexander McQueen. The costume evolves through the season, becoming a darker shade of gray when the more ruthless "Aida 2.0" is introduced. Foley left the show after the thirteenth episode of the season, to work on a television adaptation of Altered Carbon, and was replaced with Amanda Riley. Riley used her previous experience recreating costumes to "blend in" with Foley's established look, and also noted that the majority of her work was designing for the Framework reality which allowed her to not exactly match with previous designs. Riley took Foley's costumes for Aida as the base shape of the Madame Hydra costume, but looked to make it feel "stronger" and more military-esque than those costumes by having the shoulders of the costume evoke epaulettes. The costume uses the color green, which is closely tied with the character in the comics.

For the Darkhold, writer Lilla Zuckerman suggested that the book's cover should feature the word "Darkhold" as an ambigram, with the series' props department designing a new font to achieve this. Prop master Scott Bauer was inspired by elements from the Kree weaponry designed for the previous season when designing the cover of the Darkhold. Multiple versions of the book were created for the show, with the frames created by 3D-printing molds to create durable rubber casts. These were then given to a bookbinder with aged, vellum pages, who assembled the props and created the leather cover. The pages were filled with text and illustrations inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.

Filming

Production on the season began on July 21, 2016, in Los Angeles. Whedon made his directorial debut with "Self Control". Whedon noted he had decided at the end of season three to direct an episode in season four after doing some second unit work on "Spacetime" under Kevin Tancharoen. He credited his brother and series creator Joss Whedon along with Tancharoen, and his "years working with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s directors from a showrunning perspective and his close relationship with the cast and crew" for why now was the right time for him to direct an episode. The cast expressed enthusiasm with Whedon directing "Self Control", given he also wrote the episode, with Bennet feeling, "The vision is so clear. There's a lot more room to play, like 'what about this?' and the enthusiasm because he wrote these words, he knows what's coming next. It's been so much fun." Ahead of filming the final episode of the season, Wen injured her leg in an on set accident with "a fairly severe injury". Wen noted the production was able to work around her injury with no delay and that she would still be involved with the episode. Production on the season concluded on April 17, 2017.

Music

The season saw "several major creative turning points" in the score from composer Bear McCreary. Given the introduction of Ghost Rider and the Framework in the season, McCreary used "searing synths" over the regular symphonic orchestra.

Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-ins

In March 2016, Tancharoen stated that there was a possibility the season could continue the story of Agent Carter in some way, given it was not renewed for the 2016–17 season. Whedon added that "We are linked to them through history [but] whether or not we'll tell their stories remains to be seen." The Momentum Energy Labs group introduced in the season is eventually revealed to be a successor to the Isodyne Energy company from the second season of Agent Carter. The two companies are connected by the parent company Roxxon, a mainstay of the MCU, and deal with supernatural entities: Isodyne discovered the extra-dimensional Darkforce, while Momentum is shown experimenting on extra-dimensional energy using the Darkhold, the Book of Sins from the comics. In December, Whedon said that Peggy Carter "is a part of the universe, and she's a character we care about", and that there was a good chance of having bigger connections to her show moving forward after the Ghost Rider pod.

Исследование сезона сверхъестественных и мистических концепций связано с выпуском Доктора Стрэнджа , первого фильма MCU, исследованного Magic. В дополнение к Darkhold , это включает в себя введение Ghost Rider, когда Уэдон объяснил в июле 2016 года, что «вселенная Marvel [кинематографическая] переходит в новые воды [с предстоящим выпуском Доктора Стрэнджа ]. Мы чувствовали, что [призрак -гонщик ], очевидно, был отличным персонажем, которого мы хотели бы иметь в нашем шоу, который, по нашему мнению, подходит для этого сдвига ». Уэдон отметил, что предыдущие ввязочные включения иногда были «очень прямыми», а в других случаях «более тематические. Галстук в этом году будет чувствовать больше отражения [ доктора Стрэнджа ], менее переплетчивого сюжета». Он добавил: «Надеюсь, на некоторые вопросы, которые мы задаем, будут отвечать [фильм, который может] представить для нас новые темы и идеи». «Обращается с нашими дьяволами», вышел в эфир после освобождения Доктора Стрэнджа , видит, как Аида создает портал для спасения Коулсона и Фитца из другого измерения. Визуальные эффекты для них намеренно напоминают о тех, которые используются в фильме. Белл добавил, что « Темный Дерхолл » чувствует себя так, как будто он принадлежит в библиотеке в Катманду », имея в виду библиотеку Камар-Таджа , которую можно увидеть в Докторе Стрэндже .

В сезоне, имел большой кроссовер в начале 2017 года, как и в предыдущие сезоны, Белл сказал, что любой кроссовер не будет таким крупным, как в первом кроссовере с капитаном Америкой: Зимним солдатом , который изменил предпосылку серии, и отметил, что Фильм MCU, выпущенный в то время, является Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 , с которым было бы трудно связаться, так как он не установлен на Земле, и происходит ранее в непрерывности MCU, чем сезон.

Маркетинг

В июле 2016 года члены актеров и исполнительных продюсеров посетили Сан-Диего Comic-Con, чтобы продвигать сезон. Тролли использовала для перевозки участников в Сан-Диего Comic-Con была освещена в рекламе сериала, подчеркивая добавление Ghost Rider. Кроме того, Dodge Charger 1969 года был раскрыт на выставочном этаже. Первый тизер -трейлер на сезон был выпущен в начале сентября 2016 года, как « найденные кадры », показывающая машину Ghost Rider " Feeling Out ", Вскоре после этого тизером с фактическими кадрами из серии. Премьера эпизода " Призрак " был впервые показан 19 сентября 2016 года, И эпизод « восстание » был показан 7 октября, когда Грегг, Беннет и Луна продвигали сериал в New York Comic Con .

Веб-сериал из шести частей, Агенты Shield: Slingshot , дебютировал на Abc.com 13 декабря 2016 года. Это следует за Еленой «Yo-Yo» Родригеса в секретной миссии, когда Кордова-Бэкли повторяет свою роль, незадолго до начала четвертого сезона. Грегг, О'Мара, Симмонс, Беннет, Вэнь, Де Кестекер и Хенстридж - все они повторяют свои роли в серии. В марте 2017 года Marvel переиграл предыдущие плакаты для серии, обновленные, чтобы показать, как они выглядели бы, если бы сериал был проведен в Framework Reality. Они также выпустили плакаты Faux Propaganda, подчеркивающие государство наблюдения Гидры в рамках, и их внимание на охоте на бесчеловечные. Эпизод «Что если ...» был показан 1 апреля 2017 года в Wondercon , с членами актеров, включая Далтон, и исполнительные продюсеры шоу, продвигающие сериал.

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Сезон начал транслироваться в Соединенных Штатах в ABC 20 сентября 2016 года, и завершил свой 22-эпизодный запуск 16 мая 2017 года. В отличие от предыдущих двух сезонов, которые были разделены на «два маленьких мини-песен» на основе их графика трансляции, этот сезон был разбит на три разных раздела по графику. Это привело к три сюжетной структуры сезона, которая, по словам Танчароэна, «облегчила нашу жизнь, чтобы сломать ее таким образом».

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Сезон начал транслироваться на Netflix в Соединенных Штатах 15 июня 2017 года, и был доступен до 28 февраля 2022 года. Он был выпущен на Blu-ray и DVD в регионе 2 2 июля 2018 года Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment . Он стал доступен на Disney+ в Соединенных Штатах 16 марта 2022 года, Присоединяясь к другим территориям, где он уже был доступен на службе.

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Зрители и рейтинги за эпизод агентов щита 4 сезон 4

Нет.	Заголовок	Воздушная дата	Рейтинг/доля (18–49)	Зрители (миллионы)	Кадр (18–49)	Зрители DVR (миллионы)	Общий (18–49)	Всего зрителей (миллионы)
1	" Призрак "	20 сентября 2016 года	1.1/4	3.44	1.1	2.79	2.2	6.24
2	" Познакомьтесь с новым боссом "	27 сентября 2016 года	0.9/3	2.95	1.0	2.43	1.9	5.39
3	" Восстание "	11 октября 2016 г.	0.9/3	2.68	1.0	2.21	1.9	4.89
4	" Позвольте мне встать рядом с вашим огнем "	18 октября 2016 года	0.7/3	2.34	1.1	2.44	1.8	4.78
5	" Замок "	25 октября 2016 г.	0.8/3	2.30	0.9	2.25	1.7	4.55
6	" Добрый самаритянин "	1 ноября 2016 года	0.8/3	2.43	0.9	2.14	1.7	4.57
7	" Борьба с нашими дьяволами "	29 ноября 2016 г.	0.8/3	2.41	0.9	2.22	1.7	4.63
8	" Законы динамики Адферно "	6 декабря 2016 года	0.7/3	2.37	0.9	2.12	1.6	4.49
9	" Сломанные обещания "	10 января 2017 года	0.8/3	2.72	0.8	1.94	1.6	4.66
10	" Патриот "	17 января 2017 года	0.6/2	2.03	0.9	2.02	1.5	4.05
11	" Проснуться "	24 января 2017 года	0.6/2	2.00	0.8	1.97	1.4	3.97
12	" Горячий картофельный суп "	31 января 2017 года	0.6/2	2.15	0.9	2.08	1.5	4.23
13	" Бум "	7 февраля 2017 года	0.7/3	2.08	0.8	2.04	1.5	4.13
14	" Человек за щитом "	14 февраля 2017 года	0.6/2	2.13	0.9	2.03	1.5	4.16
15	" Самоконтроль "	21 февраля 2017 года	0.6/2	2.01	0.8	1.87	1.4	3.88
16	" Что, если... "	4 апреля 2017 года	0.7/3	2.15	0.8	2.07	1.5	4.22
17	" Идентичность и перемены "	11 апреля 2017 года	0.7/3	2.32	0.8	1.68	1.5	4.01
18	" Нет сожаления "	18 апреля 2017 года	0.8/3	2.43	0.7	1.82	1.5	4.25
19	" Все люди мадам "	25 апреля 2017 года	0.7/3	2.15	—	—	—	—
20	" Прощай, жестокий мир! "	2 мая 2017 года	0.7/3	2.15	0.7	1.60	1.4	3.75
21	" Возврат "	9 мая 2017 года	0.7/3	2.14	0.9	1.88	1.6	4.02
22	" Конец мира "	16 мая 2017 года	0.7/3	2.08	0.8	1.99	1.5	4.07

Новый временной интервал сезона, в 10 часов вечера во вторник, был назван «Стоимостью смерти» для ABC от комментаторов, причем девять различных серий были запланированы в слоте между 2011 и 2017 годами, и все они падали в зрительскую службу во время трансляции. Это было то же самое для агентов щита 4 -го сезона, которые достигли минимумов серии 0,6 живых рейтингов и около 2 миллионов зрителей, что составляет от третьего сезона около 30 процентов. Тем не менее, к финалу сезона он был описан как «помогло решить проблему [ABC] в временном интервале, будучи« солидным исполнителем DVR »и рисованием для международных зрителей. Это привело к обновлению серии на пятый сезон . Сезон составил в среднем 4,22 миллиона зрителей, в том числе от DVR, заняв 110 -е место среди сериалов в сериале 2016–17 гг . У него также был средний рейтинг 18–49 1,5, что было 70 -е место.

Критический ответ

На веб Aggregator Review Aggregator -сайте Rotten Tomatoes сообщается о 96% -ном рейтинге одобрения со средним баллом 7,8/10 на основе 25 обзоров. Консенсус веб-сайта гласит: « Агенты Shield исследуют более темную территорию в его четвертом сезоне с захватывающим введением Ghost Rider, создавая новую главу более острой мифологии Marvel».

Постоянные гости сезона, в том числе ( L - R ) Габриэль Луна ( Робби Рейес / Призрак ) и Джейсон О'Мара ( Джеффри Мейс / Патриот ), были подчеркнуты критиками.

Просматривая премьеру, Терри Шварц Игг похвалил введение призрачного гонщика и последующий более темный тон, который «в конечном итоге позволит [серии] сидеть более комфортно рядом с его корпоративными двоюродными братьями на Netflix », но чувствовал, что были некоторые «растущие боли "С переходом к более зрелому материалу. Алекс МакКаун из AV Club назвал его «стандартным первым эпизодом, в том смысле, что он снова делает много закрепления столов и не всегда в самом убедительном способе». Леви чувствовала, что представление Ghost Rider было хорошо обработано для некоммерческих фанатов, обнаружив, что персонажа с шоу, но новые позиции главных героев серии были более интересными и должны были быть сосредоточены на большем. Кевин Фитцпатрик из ScreenCrush сказал: «Я нервничаю в целом 4 -й сезон, особенно если упомянутое переосмысление не проживает рейтинги, такие как Marvel и ABC Hope, но« Призрак » - это достаточная причина для некоторого случайного оптимизма». Он был позитивен в отношении нового сходства с Darker Series Sorreevil , но чувствовал, что сериал «еще не имеет самой твердой ручки» на Ghost Rider. Эван Валентайн, пишущий для Collider , сказал, что сериал «Конечно, выигрывает от получения страницы из серии« The Marvel Netflix, подчеркивая количество более зрелых элементов в открытии эпизода »как« хорошее представление, которое показывает вам, что это не может быть точно то же самое шоу, которое вы узнали на протяжении многих лет ».

Для перехода от Ghost Rider на LMD , Джозеф МакКейб сказал из Nerdist что любые сомнения, которые он испытывал в отношении изменений, «более или менее устранены» сериалом приобретает роботизированный антагонист, который он назвал « Мстители: эпохи Ультрона» . .. Где это, как очевидно, улучшается в фильме второго второго Мстителя, находится в отделе юмора ». Шварц назвал переход плавным и почувствовал, что сериал «постоянный бесчеловечный сюжет хорошо дополнял сюжетную линию LMD. Валентин сказал, что начало LMD «не поддерживает высоты [серии»] с Ghost Rider на сиденье водителя, но ему удается оставаться твердым входом в воздушные волны ». Он очень критиковал бесчеловечный сюжет, называя сторожевые псы «в значительной степени разыгрывались в данный момент» и чувствуя, что Inhumans стали устаревшими после предыдущих двух сезонов. Фицпатрик также раскритиковал «плоскую» бесчеловечную сюжетную линию, но почувствовал, что изменение на LMD «вышло из наилучшего начала», учитывая «явно меньший крючок, чем призрак . Начиная агентов Hydra Pod, Шварц сказал «этот обратный эпизод больше, чем доставлен» в Cliffhanger предыдущего эпизода. Она была удовлетворена тем, что рамочная реальность не была отменена в одном эпизоде, и надеялась, что оставшиеся эпизоды сезона предложат «аналогичные сюрпризы [которые обходят] наши ожидания». Валентин чувствовал «что, если ...», созданный для очень хорошего старта »для капсула, чувствуя, что он« продолжает опираться на добрую волю, созданную в 4 -м сезоне Shield, представляющего интересную концепцию и мир, который будет изучен ». МакКаун-Леви продолжил похвалу, сказав, что «это могло быть пронзительным умолчанием через слишком заметные показатели, изнасилованную гибель и мрак . ARC уже выплачивает дивиденды с точки зрения вознаграждения давних зрителей с глубокими ссылками и историями ». Фитцпатрик, однако, почувствовал эпизод «наткнулся» и был «чем -то вроде ухабистого возвращения в 4 -й сезон, и вдвойне для тех, кто потерял из виду конфликт жизни приманки в игре, или укрывает озабоченность ABC, возможно, не упорядочить пятый сезон. " Ему было трудно определить правила в игре в рамках, и чувствовал, что сюжетная линия была сделана больше, потому что «продюсеры пропустили работу с Бреттом Далтоном».

«Все люди мадам», МакКаун-Леви, чувствовал, что агенты Гидры были «самой последовательно увлекательной дугой, которую когда-либо делал сериал. Шоу было выше, но никогда не было устойчивым уровнем качества. Я много спорил. В последнее время агенты щита становятся неуклонно лучше с каждым сезоном, и даже через год, у которых были сильные дуги, такие как Ghost Rider и LMD , эта последняя сюжетная линия возглавляет их всех ... Шоу, по сути, удалось создать альтернативную реальность, где, где Он может решить давние проблемы и решать незаконченные ритмы персонажей, при этом умно выполняя действия и острые ощущения ... и, поскольку это продолжает работать, ему удалось превратить телевизионный эквивалент забавного B-Movie в превосходное телевизионное шоу ». В целом, Шварц наградил сезон 8,8 из 10, заявив, что сезон был «лучшим [сериалом], когда -либо созревающим как шоу и изучая правильные уроки из того, что было раньше». Она похвалила формат стручка, заявив, что он «помог ужесточить сезон, дать ему более сильную скромную» и добавила, что каждый новый стручок, который введен сезон, был более успешным, чем предыдущий, с агентами Hydra Pod и Framework Story Arc, возможно, самой сильной из Вся серия. Шварц также с любовью говорила о приглашенных звездах в течение сезона, особенно Янсен, которую она назвала «MVP сезона» и чувствовала «украл шоу» с Аидой, которая была «выдающимся новым персонажем» сезона. Некоторые негативы в этом сезоне были дополнительные злодеи, Эли Морроу и Верхень (не «особенно выдающийся злодей», и никогда не «настолько навязывающий или ужасающий, как он должен был», соответственно), и некоторые из ранних последствий работают, хотя, хотя и работают. Она также похвалила «Великую работу CGI» с Ghost Rider. Den of Geek Rob Leane также высоко оценил формат POD, заявив, что «исправил проблему с 22 эпизода». Он почувствовал, что капсул -призраки имел удивительные визуальные эффекты, и был «естественной» длиной, которую другие серии могли растянуть дальше. Он также подчеркнул выступление Вэна как LMD May в LMD -стручке и агентах сюжетной линии Hydra Pod Mack and Hope, и похвалил гостевые выступления Луны и Янсена (чувство, что собрать последние два в финале - идеальный способ обернуть вещи вверх "). Leane назвал сезон «мастер-классом в том, как агенты щита могут процветать в будущем ... авторы продолжают внедрять больше научно-фантастических концепций, команда спецэффектов продолжает доставлять, и актеры продолжают активизировать свою игру, чтобы не отставать от все это ".

Анализ

Многие критики отметили комментарий к администрации Трампа во время агентов Hydra Pod, в том числе лидер Гидры Фитц, желающий «сделать общество снова великим» и сказать о Дейзи: «Тем не менее, она упорствовала», репортер новостей Бакши предлагает взять женскую коллегу по магазинам мебели для и Коулсон называет утвержденную историю Гидры как « альтернативные факты ». Валентин назвал это «одной из распространенных тем« капсула », и считал, что« Щит удалось добавить какой -то кусающий комментарий в этом сезоне ». МакКаун-Леви сказал, что во время капсула «стало ясно, что шоу оставляло после себя свою прежнюю тактику удовлетворения с помощью застенчивых намеков и кивков современной политической реальности в США. Рамка дает этой серии возможность выразить свое недовольство с текущая администрация. " Он также отметил, что воспитание структуры Фитца было оправдано по сравнению с действиями нацистов , которые, по его мнению, были более эффективными, чем другие комментарии, привязанные к развитию персонажа.

Аманда Маркотт из Салона чувствовала, что к маю 2017 года «не было времени для большинства поп -культуры, чтобы отреагировать на [выборы Трампа], но есть одно действительно замечательное исключение из правила: агенты Marvel of Shield ... авторы и Производители сделали замечательную работу, превращая последнюю половину этого сезона в зеркало ужасного шоу о том, что это такое для либералов, живущих в Америке Трампа ». Маркотт отметил, что «сопротивление» является лидером, для аудитории, двух женщин в Дейзи и Симмонсе, отражая женский марш 2017 года , а также то, что Гидра приобрела власть, используя страх перед нечеловеками, как «Трамп смог ездить на волне против -Миммигрант настроения к власти ». Она также подчеркнула предупреждение Симмонса молодому мальчику о том, что все агенты Гидры являются нацистами, назвав это предупреждение «аудитории, напоминая им не забыть, какой тип авторитарного монстра был помещен в Белый дом». Михал Шик из Гипвея отметил, что политический комментарий проводился в течение сезона, когда Надир и люди первым движением, но «перед лицом убийственных демонов с горючими черепами и смазкой тела, агенты щита в значительной степени держали комментарий в Фон. Шик подчеркнул тот факт, что «несмотря на все явные намеки на Америку Трампа, сам президент остается безрассудным. Хозяйка извращений рамки - Аида, как мадам Хайдра, и трудно представить более отличную фигуру от Трампа ... Опустив этот самый простой и очевидный момент сатиры, агенты щита расширяют свое послание за пределами прямых современных комментариев. из рамки на Аиде.

Письмо для Полигона , Эрик Уотсон сказал, что « четвертый сезон агентов Щита вытаскивает лучшие элементы из MCU и самые чрезмерные элементы из комиксов, чтобы напомнить мне, почему я люблю Marvel: супергерои, которые бьют нацистов». Он сказал, что это было освежающе после спорной комической сюжетной линии « Секретная империя» , в которой патриотический капитан Америка стал спящим агентом для Гидры. Карли Велоччи из TheWrap также обсудил сезон в отношении « Секретной империи» , отметив, что агенты Гидры «не породили цифровую гору возмущения», как комическое событие. Она сказала, что тайная империя «практически не игнорирует [реального мира, минус, признавая, что нацисты, как правило, нравятся концентрационные лагеря. Во всяком случае, он относится к предмету, как одежда окон, фон для сюжета, предназначенного для раздувания умов читателей .. , Агенты щита однако, охватывают этот реальный контекст. «Тусть от того факта, что Гидра определенно укоренилась в третьем рейхе». Она продолжила, что сериал «Умел создать мир, в котором Гидра является истеблишментом, но все остальные сюжетные моменты посвящены его четкому вопросу» и «Что бывает более вдохновляющим, чем видеть настоящий символ Америки, не берущий дерьмо у нацистов? Где бы ни был комический сериал Принимает Капитан Америку, к счастью, это не должно было утратить. Агенты Щита этого не сделали ».

Награды

Агенты Shield были включены в Лору Херли из 10 лучших шоу Cinemablend в списке 2016 года , рейтинг 2 -го. Ресурсы комиксов назвали «Призрак» как 15-й лучший эпизод в 2016 году среди телесериалов, связанных с комиксами.

Год	Премия	Категория	Кандидат (ы)	Результат	Рефери
2017	Золотые награды	ТВ - короткая форма - диалог/ADR	" Борьба с нашими дьяволами "	Номинирован
	Награды по выбору детей	Любимое семейное телешоу	Агенты щита	Номинирован
	Награды Сатурн	Лучший адаптационный телесериал супергероя	Агенты щита	Номинирован
	Награды подросткового выбора	Выбор боевика телешоу	Агенты щита	Номинирован
		Выбор актер Action TV	Габриэль Луна	Номинирован
	Dragon Awards	Лучшая научная фантастика или фэнтезийный сериал	Агенты щита	Номинирован

Ссылки

Общие ссылки

• « Агенты Marvel of Shield Season 4 Guide» . Телевидение . Получено 27 июня 2024 года .
• «Показывает Аризона - агенты щита Marvel на ABC» . Футон -критик . Получено 21 июля 2017 года .

Внешние ссылки

• Агенты щита в IMDB