Overthinking It is back to overthinking. Cuz…overthinking, you know? This time around we find one of the most complete reviews of the first episode of MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. anybody’s ever going to see:

by Andrew Buonopane
Disney’s ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [has] premiered… to adequate ratings, and is off to the commercially promising start its creators intended. It is difficult to deny the show’s primary purpose (to make enough money to fund Joss Whedon’s production of the complete works of Shakespeare twice over), and other sites have already likened the first episode to a police procedural with Marvel badges. However, in a recent EW interview, Whedon indicated that it’s “basically a TV series of ‘The Zeppo’ [an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer], which was a very deliberate deconstruction of a Buffy episode in order to star the person who mattered the least. The people who are ignored are the people I’ve been writing as my heroes from day one.” Following on this, there is much to indicate that it will be more than just a money-grab. read article