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All 7 Agents of SHIELD seasons ranked from worst to best

By Josh Baggins

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - "The End is at Hand/What We're Fighting For" - With their backs against the wall and Nathaniel and Sibyl edging ever closer to eliminating S.H.I.E.L.D. from the history books, the agents must rely on their strengths to outsmart and outlast the Chronicoms. This is their most important fight, and it will take the help of friends and teammates, past and present, to survive. Watch the special two-hour series finale of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12 (9:00 - 11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC)CLARK GREGG
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - "The End is at Hand/What We're Fighting For" - With their backs against the wall and Nathaniel and Sibyl edging ever closer to eliminating S.H.I.E.L.D. from the history books, the agents must rely on their strengths to outsmart and outlast the Chronicoms. This is their most important fight, and it will take the help of friends and teammates, past and present, to survive. Watch the special two-hour series finale of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12 (9:00 - 11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC)CLARK GREGG /
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MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” stars Brett Dalton as Grant Ward, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Chloe Bennet as Agent Daisy Johnson, Clark Gregg as Director Phil Coulson, Nick Blood as Agent Lance Hunter, Adrianne Palicki as Agent Bobbi Morse, Henry Simmons as Agent Alphonso “Mack” MacKenzie and Luke Mitchell as Lincoln Campbell. (ABC/Kurt Iswarienkio ) /

Agents of SHIELD provided Marvel fans with 7 engaging seasons. Which seasons rank as the show’s best and which fall to the undesirable lower spots?

Agents of SHIELD started as an extension of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, although Marvel Television developed the television series for ABC, while the films were produced by the separate Marvel Studios. It was the first TV content to spawn from the incredibly popular movie franchise and was also watched by millions of fans, yet viewership eventually declined as the years went on.

Audiences were definitely interested in seeing Agents of SHIELD tie into the corresponding movies, however, that was not a sustainable practice for the show. After the initial seasons, the production crews between the two mediums were no longer synchronizing, leaving SHIELD to react to the events on the big screen. Ultimately, the series fully embraced its own characters and storytelling, and almost completely detached from the universe it was born out of.

Unfortunately, like most long-running comic book adaptation television series, Agents of SHIELD’s quality drops off toward the later years, but in contrast to some of its DC counterparts over in the Arrowverse, Agents of SHIELD does remain entertainingly watchable through to the last episode. The core cast sticks around for the majority of the show’s airing and the showrunners are able to map out a proper ending for the series.

Analyzing all seven years, our ranking starts from Agents of SHIELD’s lowest point and works up to the series’ best seasons.

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