Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 Spoilers: Clark Gregg Talks 'Darker' Season

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stumbled quite a bit in its first season, but the show really blossomed once Captain America: The Winter Soldier hit theaters and the plot raced ahead. The Season 1 finale answered a few questions but raised many more, and star Clark Gregg promises some interesting developments for Season 2.

Collider compiled some information about next season from Gregg on a press tour for his new film, Trust Me. Season 1 ended with Coulson as director of a reborn, fledgling S.H.I.E.L.D. operation, and the actor compared this situation in Season 2 to...James Bond?

"It's going to be lo-fi. You're going back to basics," he said. "You've got to rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D. from the ground up in a much more dangerous world where your group is outlawed. So it feels like the early, Sean Connery James Bond with the brass knuckles and not afraid to knock somebody off." 

He went on to talk about a darker Season 2, the show's new time slot and the Agent Carter series:

"I thought there were so many things stacked against us last year," said Gregg, "and one of them was where the ABC television schedule would put us on for three episodes and then take us down for four weeks. Nobody could get a momentum going and when the show started to be on consistently and having story that carried over in an episodic way, that's when things started to click. So the great thing about the announcement was, A., we're moving to nine, where it can be a little darker, like I think Marvel needs to be. Then they're going to show, I believe it's ten [Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episodes], eight of [Agent Carter], then twelve [more Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]...For the most part, this is straight runs of our show, which is when I think it really works."

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