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"Meet the New Boss"
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode
Episode no.Season 4
Episode 2
Directed byVincent Misiano
Written byDrew Z. Greenberg
Produced by
Cinematography byAllan Westbrook
Editing byJoshua Charson
Original air dateSeptember 27, 2016 (2016-09-27)
Running time43 minutes
Guest appearances
  • Robbie Reyes / Ghost Rider
  • Lilli Birdsell as
    Lucy
  • Dan Donohue as
    Frederick
  • Ward Roberts as
    Hugo
  • Vincent
  • Canelo
  • Jeffrey Mace
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4
List of episodes

"Meet the New Boss" is the second episode of the

Ghost Rider. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledges the franchise's films. The episode was written by Drew Z. Greenberg, and directed by Vincent Misiano
.

Ghost Rider
.

"Meet the New Boss" originally aired on ABC on September 27, 2016, and was watched by 5.39 million viewers within a week of its release. The introduction of Mace was praised by critics, particularly for O'Mara's more subdued performance than many suspected for such a role. The episode was also praised for continuing the development begun in the previous episode, but received criticism for its antagonists and the effects used to make them appear "ghostly".

Plot

A

Robbie Reyes is followed by Daisy Johnson
, the vigilante Quake, to the mechanic where he works after she confronted him the previous night about his actions as the Ghost Rider. Johnson believes Reyes when he says that he, as the Ghost Rider, only murders people who "deserve it", and now wants him to kill her. He refuses until he finds something that proves she deserves it, despite her thinking she already does.

S.H.I.E.L.D. picks up on the ghost's actions, with agents

Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie
arrive to see the ghosts attempting to destroy the facility, but are saved when Johnson and Reyes arrive and the Ghost Rider disintegrates one of the ghosts while the others flee.

At S.H.I.E.L.D. base, the infected May starts seeing ghoulish images around her and begins attacking her fellow agents. She is subdued by the agency's new director,

Inhuman who has her sent to a secret facility for treatment. He refuses to give this location to Phil Coulson, the former director who had stepped down with the hope that a new, powered director could help calm human-Inhuman relations. With Mace planning to announce S.H.I.E.L.D. to the world as a legitimate agency, he has had Coulson helping him with public relations
. Mack asks Johnson to return to S.H.I.E.L.D. with them, as she was an agent and friend of theirs before leaving to become Quake. She refuses, and instead joins with Reyes in a partnership—he believes Momentum and the ghosts are connected to him.

Production

Development

A flash-forward at the end of the third-season finale revealed that Coulson would no longer be the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the fourth season. The showrunners intentionally avoided giving hints as to who the new director would be in the sequence.

Ghost Rider.[4][5]

Casting and writing

Jeffrey Mace
.
Further information: List of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. characters

In August 2016, the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D. was explained to be a new character to the series, portrayed by

Jeffrey Mace, who goes by Patriot in the comics.[10]

In September 2016, Marvel confirmed that main cast members

Vincent, Deren Tadlock as armed S.H.I.E.L.D. guard and Mark Daneri as Wisconsin congressman.[3] Luna, Venskus, Sung, and Birdsell reprise their roles from earlier in the series.[11]

In the comics, Mace is "a former reporter who was inspired by

NSA, so he appears in the episode "eager to please" the United States government which O'Mara felt created some "goofy" scenes to contrast those where he has to withhold information from Coulson.[12]

Discussing May's sickness in the episode after being "infected" by the ghost Lucy in the season premiere, Wen explained that "It starts to affect May's perception of things. It's almost like being on LSD, but worse. It's not good. You never want May out of control. You don't want her to be paranoid."[13] Regarding Reyes' choice to work with Johnson at the end of the episode, Luna said that "a lot of that is I respect her power and I respect her. I understand that she's going in the same direction I am, she's seeking the same ends that I am, so I offer the opportunity for her to jump in and saddle up and we go find these things out."[14]

Release

"Meet the New Boss" was first aired in the United States on ABC on September 27, 2016.[3] It began streaming on Netflix, along with the rest of the fourth season, on June 15, 2017.[15]

Reception

Ratings

In the United States the episode received a 0.9/3 percent share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, meaning that it was seen by 0.9 percent of all households, and 3 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast. It was watched by 2.95 million viewers.[16] Within a week of its release, "Meet the New Boss" had been watched by 5.39 million U.S. viewers,[17] above the season average of 4.22 million.[18]

Critical response

Writing for The A.V. Club, Alex McLevy graded the episode a "B" and praised Greenberg's script for its "wit and verve" and "sparkling" dialogue. He felt Johnson and her storyline with Reyes benefited the most from the script, and said that the further development of the central team and their newly established status quo covered the "real questions" of the episode despite the various overarching plot developments shown. McLevy felt the introduction of Mace and the surprise twist of his Inhumanity were handled fine, but was even more pleased with the twist of "having the director being a really personable, self-deprecating dork" and O'Mara's performance as such.[19] Joseph McCabe at Nerdist praised O'Mara for "keeping his gravitas a safe distance below the surface", which McCabe found to be a breath of fresh air from previous big introductions to the series.[20]

At

Hydra based stories. Buxton appreciated the introduction of Mace as both a reference to the comics and a tie-in to Captain America: Civil War, and found the deterioration of May to be particularly meaningful due to the drastic change from her usual stoic personality.[21] For Collider, Evan Valentine thought the episode continued the world building started in "The Ghost" in a more compelling way, and gave the episode a "very good" 4 stars out of 5. He called the introduction of Mace "one of the stronger parts of this episode" and praised his non-cliche characterization, the Inhuman twist, and O'Mara's performance, positively comparing him to Bill Paxton (who had a recurring role in the series' first season). Valentine also positively compared the authenticity of Reyes' life and work environment to the world building of Marvel's Netflix television series.[22]

Terri Schwartz of

ScreenCrush's Kevin Fitzpatrick was also negative of the ghosts, calling the cold open "straight out of bad Supernatural" and saying the design of the ghosts "definitely needed work". Fitzpatrick also discussed the ongoing Ghost Rider and LMD storylines, concluding that "I'm still waiting for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to get a better handle on its new direction".[24]

References

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