Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Whew!  I am so glad we didn't give up on this series, it started so badly, cheesy scripts, dodgy effects, woefully stereotypical characterisation...  it's only our love of Phil Coulson, and curiosity about how he was brought back from the events of Avengers Assemble, that kept us watching and then, suddenly, like Dollhouse, it shifted a gear or three and it all got so much better, more enthralling, less cringe-worthy.  And the run-up and the finale were really, really great.  Don't give up on it.  They wouldn't give up on us.

Now.  I have a few things I'd like to mull over about all this, but I hate spoilers myself so I'm taking it 'under the fold' so to speak.  If you don't want to be part of the discussion, don't click the 'read more' link!