Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
This week’s SHIELD did a good job playing with some expectations. At this point in the MCU, if you introduce a beautiful, mysterious Russian woman, we’re programmed to think “Black Widow!” But no, Eva had nothing to do with the Black Widow program, but was in fact an Inhuman.
From Season 1, we already knew that May got all the captured agents in Bahrain out of that building, which didn’t bode well for that little girl as we knew something happened that changed May in a big way. Still, the fact that the little girl wasn’t possessed by her mom's power, but was the one controlling everyone and was, basically, evil, and that May had to shoot and kill her to save her people, was still very effective. Yes, it was laid on thick with May and Drew at that same point in their lives wanting to have a kid – and then May having to kill a kid – but it still worked and certainly was sufficient as something that would have messed her up. Ming-Na Wen did great work here too, showing May in two very different times in her lives and the event that would have such an impact on her.
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This week’s SHIELD did a good job playing with some expectations. At this point in the MCU, if you introduce a beautiful, mysterious Russian woman, we’re programmed to think “Black Widow!” But no, Eva had nothing to do with the Black Widow program, but was in fact an Inhuman.
From Season 1, we already knew that May got all the captured agents in Bahrain out of that building, which didn’t bode well for that little girl as we knew something happened that changed May in a big way. Still, the fact that the little girl wasn’t possessed by her mom's power, but was the one controlling everyone and was, basically, evil, and that May had to shoot and kill her to save her people, was still very effective. Yes, it was laid on thick with May and Drew at that same point in their lives wanting to have a kid – and then May having to kill a kid – but it still worked and certainly was sufficient as something that would have messed her up. Ming-Na Wen did great work here too, showing May in two very different times in her lives and the event that would have such an impact on her.
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