AGENTS OF
S.H.I.E.L.D.
SEASON 7

ORDERED EARLY, ANNOUNCED AS THE LAST

HOW THE FINAL SEASON WAS MADE

ABC renewed the series on 16 November 2018 for a seventh season of 13 episodes, and the end was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2019. Filming began at the end of February 2019 in Culver City, California, and wrapped on 30 July 2019. The premiere, “The New Deal,” aired on 27 May 2020, and the last two episodes aired together on 12 August 2020.

A TOUR OF S.H.I.E.L.D.’S OWN PAST

WHAT THE SEASON IS ABOUT

The team tries to stop a Chronicom invasion while stranded in time, with early stops in New York in 1931 and the Area 51 area in 1955. Clark Gregg plays Phil Coulson as a Life Model Decoy.

At D23 in August 2019, where the cast screened the premiere, Gregg spoke to the audience about what the show had become:

“This is really the show that you guys created.”

Clark Gregg, D23, August 2019

THE CORE TEAM TO THE END

WHO IS IN THE CAST

Clark Gregg plays Coulson, with Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May, Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons, Henry Simmons as Mack, Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Yo-Yo and Jeff Ward as Deke Shaw, and Joel Stoffer recurring as Enoch. Iain De Caestecker received a special guest star credit as Fitz.

THE SMALLEST AUDIENCE AND THE BEST REVIEWS

WHAT THE RATINGS AND REVIEWS SHOW

The premiere drew 1.82 million viewers live and a 0.3 rating among adults 18 to 49, or 2.97 million viewers with DVR, and the season had the series’ lowest viewership. On 12 August 2020 the first hour of the finale night drew 1.64 million viewers and a 0.4 rating, a season high in the demo, and the finale itself 1.35 million and a 0.3. Rotten Tomatoes lists a 100% critics’ score from 15 reviews and a 94% audience score, and its consensus calls the season “heartfelt.”

THE REWATCH

THE END OF SEVEN SEASONS

The finale’s second part, “What We’re Fighting For,” received two Golden Reel Award nominations, for dialogue and ADR and for effects and Foley. It was the last episode of a series that ran 136 episodes across seven seasons.

In the Marvel Marathon it is catalogued as Marvel Television and sits in the Marvel TV shows in order guide between Runaways Season 3 and Helstrom Season 1. It is not in the MCU timeline guide or the MCU release-order and series guides.