Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D: 6 Ups And 4 Downs From Season 2

By James Hunt /

2. The Reveal Of Skye€™s Parents - Up

Who is Skye€™s father? That was the big mystery of the first season, and one the second quickly got around to addressing. Turns out her father is€ Kyle MacLachlan. He plays The Doctor (not that one), who is a surgeon to the underworld, an expert in the Diviner, and someone with major anger issues. His story dovetails with that of Skye€™s, as he just wants to get his daughter back, and her becoming an Inhuman. This also leads to the discovery that Skye€™s mother, Jiaying, is still alive, and she€™s the one who looks after the new Inhumans. While it is initially set-up so that she appears as the €˜good€™ parent, and Cal the €˜bad€™ one, there is an excellent, slow reveal that it€™s actually the other way around. Having built the mystery of her parents up, the show needed to deliver and it did that and then some, in particular with the introduction of MacLachlan, who turned out to be comic-book character Calvin Zabo/Mr Hyde, and is fantastic at the insane-yet-caring father who really just wants to reunite with his daughter.