Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4

Hey there, gang! Let's talk TV. Yeah yeah no huge fan fare for a change. So this time around I thought we would check back with those wacky kids of S.H.I.E.L.D. and see what they're up to.

Operating in the darkness as they did for two years, Coulson and crew are hard at work trying to re-credit S.H.I.E.L.D. as it is being viewed under a microscope. With new management and a few surprises that occurred our team has had some restructure. This is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4.

Not Nicolas Cage.

After the near devastating effects of Inhumans all over the planet, the loss of one she cared for, Daisy "Skye" Johnson ( Chloe Bennett of Nashville, The Birthday Boys, Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast and Jake and the Never Land Pirates) is on the lam, investigating weird happenings and serial killings in her old stomping grounds of L.A. Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg of The Spanish Prisoner, Magnolia, State and Main, Iron Man, Thor, The Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man, Lego Marvel's Avengers and Thrilling Adventure Hour Live) steps down from being director of SHIELD as he is a "dead man" as far as public records are concerned and it might be a bit jarring having a man back from the dead due to an alien blood transfusion.

He and Mack (Henry Simmons of NYPD Blue, Taxi, No Good Deed, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) spend most of their downtime trying to locate Daisy and disprove she is the one slaughtering criminals of various background and level.

Agent May (Ming-An Wen of Street Fighter: The Movie, Spawn: The Animated Series, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Mulan, The Batman, SGU Stargate Universe, Eureka and April Rain) runs her own strike force, which means those boys and girls got even more vigorous training.

I'm so baked.

With new director Jeffery Mace (Jason O' Mara of Vegas, Son of Batman, Batman vs. Robin, Justice League: War, Sons of Liberty, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Infamous) being elected for the position of director of S.H.I.E.L.D., there are some that do not feel they can fully trust him yet. I agree. For one, he's mostly a D.C.and not a Marvel. With the Inhumans that have survived the onslaught of Lash's attacks, most are in hiding. A new threat emerges as everyone was just getting comfortable with the lulling peaces as the dangerous grimoire (spellbook of dark arts, necromancy and demonic incantations) known as the Darkhold is loose in the world of humanity once more.

As if that wasn't bad enough, rumors of a spirit of vengeance is roaming L.A.wiping gang bangers, drug dealers and anything else it deems evil. Yup a Ghost Rider (Gabriel Luna of Bernie, Matador, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Patti and Marina, Rosewood and Dark/Web) is pretty predominant in this season so expect some decent effects and zero Nick Cage camera mugging.

With everything hanging in the balance once more, how will the agents deal with magic, sorcery and depths of Hell? Well thankfully this is a Whedon production so all these particular problems can easily be solved. Call in Buffy. Or you know, watch the season.

Visual effects wise, you can tell they poured in the money for just the Ghost Rider work alone, we have practical effects, explosions, gun play and some nifty gadgets as Coulson is a gadget guru.

Hydra appears to no longer be the bad guy of the week and frankly I think we all got a wee bit tired of hearing "Hail Hydra!" as often as we did.

Bad car accident or revenge of three bean salad?