Agents Of SHIELD: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

The show's second season ended with the promise that the world would forever be changed thanks to mass-produced fish oil pills laced with Jiaying's Terrigen crystals making their way across the globe. Season three got to run with that concept, introducing a new generation of Inhumans and exploring how society responded to that fact, with groups like the government-created ATCU and the hate-mongering Watchdogs making their debut.

Within that, the show managed to introduce its own version of the Secret Warriors, explored the origins of the Inhuman race, brought familiar faces like Yo-Yo and Holden Radcliffe into the mix, and dove further into the different branches and ideologies of HYDRA, cleverly bringing Powers Boothe's character from The Avengers into the fold - naming him Gideon Malick in the process - to do so. Even further, we got some of the show's best episodes, like the Simmons-centric "4,722 Hours," the farewell to Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter that was "Parting Shots," and "Maveth," which saw Coulson finally put Grant Ward down once and for all only for Hive to take over his body and arrive on Earth.

Unfortunately, once Hive enters the picture, the season's pacing slows down a bit too much to be perfect, the character's threat slightly diminished because his endgame takes a while to get going, but the wait turned out to be worth it, as the finale gave us a great sendoff for Hive and Lincoln Campbell before changing the whole game up once again before all was said and done, skipping ahead in time to reveal Daisy's new life as Quake and setting the stage for the LMD arc while wrapping up a narratively cluttered but otherwise solid season in great fashion.