After a much needed break from S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Melinda May is back, but will she stay?
This season we find our favorite ass kicking agent struggling to decide whether the agency she has devoted her life to is still worth the sacrifice. Played by actress Ming-Na Wen, Agent May has always been the stoic member of the team with a hard exterior and cold personality the mission was always her focus. This time around May is questioning that focus and reevaluating her priorities. Speaking with TVGuide.com Wen had this to say.
"In any situation when someone is so devoted to their work as May was, but then realizing over the last two years that S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't really what she dedicated her life to," Wen says
. "That there was definitely a lot of corruption to S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as uncertainty now with the Inhumans being brought in by Coulson. It's going to be figuring out her final decision in Season 3 and I think Andrew will probably play a part in it."
To make matters worse Andrew, May’s ex-husband played by actor Blair Underwood who had been unhappy with S.H.I.E.L.D. now seems to have gotten over his grudge, and will be taking an active role in the organization.
“What's interesting is now May is disgruntled by S.H.I.E.L.D., but last season when May came to Andrew with the idea of coming back to S.H.I.E.L.D., he was disgruntled and had left the agency," Underwood says.
"But now he's back working with them and the Inhumans."
One guy who has no qualms about his organization is Grant Ward (Brett Dalton). Assuming the leadership position of
Agents of Shields Hydra faction, Ward will be a dangerous enemy for Coulson and his team this season.
"Hydra's different this time," Elizabeth Henstridge (Simmons) said
"It's been completely dismantled, and Ward's kind of taking it on. He's got huge scores to settle and nothing to lose, so he's a very dangerous character."
From the sounds of it Ward will actually become the savior of this fractured organization.
"I think that Hydra doesn't have a sense of leadership at this point. We've had the Hydra with Strucker, we've had the Hydra with Whitehall - all of these other versions of Hydra - and, you know, it's a ship in need of captaining," Dalton continued
"Ward has elected himself, and he's a hero in that story."
With an all-new Hydra and the Inhumans storyline Agents of Shield appears to be finding it’s stride. Let me know what you think. Leave your comments below.
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