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"Uprising"
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode
Promotional poster
Episode no.Season 4
Episode 3
Directed byMagnus Martens
Written byCraig Titley
Produced by
Cinematography byFeliks Parnell
Editing byKelly Stuyvesant
Original air dateOctober 11, 2016 (2016-10-11)
Guest appearances
  • Robbie Reyes / Ghost Rider
  • Ellen Nadeer
  • Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez
  • Gabe Reyes
  • Aida
  • Valery Ortiz as Maria
  • Derek Hughes as the Amazing Mertz
  • Jeffrey Mace
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"Uprising" is the third episode of the

Inhumans. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledges the franchise's films. The episode was written by Craig Titley and directed by Magnus Martens
.

Ghost Rider
.

"Uprising" debuted at New York Comic Con, before airing on ABC on October 11, 2016. The episode was watched by 4.89 million viewers within a week of its release. Critical response was mostly positive, with praise going to the episode's action and the cast's chemistry, but several story elements were criticized as forced. The S.H.I.E.L.D. announcement was seen to be overly ambitious for the series given the MCU films are considered unlikely to ever acknowledge it.

Plot

Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez is attending a bachelorette party for a friend in Miami when power throughout the city goes out. A group claiming to be the Inhuman resistance takes responsibility for this, but with no known Inhuman having the power to do such a thing, S.H.I.E.L.D. believes that an EMP
device has been used.

In

Gabe
. Fighting off some looters, Johnson injures her arms, so when they get Gabe to safety, Robbie goes to get her medical supplies. While he is gone, Gabe tells Johnson that he recognizes her as Quake, and asks her to leave his brother to keep him out of trouble.

In Miami, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents

Watchdogs
, anti-Inhuman terrorists who have used the "resistance" as a cover to target Inhumans around the world. The agents disarm the EMP, now knowing that someone with access to the government's Inhuman register must be backing the Watchdogs.

Agent

Terrigen cocoon
.

Production

Development and writing

In September 2016, Marvel revealed that the third episode of the season would be titled "Uprising". The episode is written by

Ghost Rider.[3][4] When the series' writers were first breaking the story for the episode, Lilla Zuckerman suggested that a blackout would be a perfect opportunity for Ghost Rider to break into a prison and murder criminals. The other writers loved the idea, but the situation did not fit into the episode. The idea later became the basis for the episode "Lockup".[5]

With S.H.I.E.L.D. being announced as a legitimate organization again, after working in secret since the end of the series'

Inhumans and will be against any form of protection for them. There are also people who are afraid. The idea of bringing S.H.I.E.L.D. back into the light is to ease their fears. So it's going to be mixed." Elaborating on this fear of Inhumans, Whedon said, "the fun part about a genre TV show is you can speak in metaphor. There is a lot of fear of the other in our world right now. We get to do that with humans and Inhumans. We get to tackle those issues head-on without ever really talking about them."[6]

Actor

Robbie Reyes chose to work with Daisy Johnson after the last episode because "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." He noted that they "get sidetracked" with the blackouts in this episode, and then Gabe asks Johnson to leave. Luna said "that look on his face you see is perhaps a little disappointment in that he started to have a bond with someone he hasn't killed. I think that face you see is one of—not fear, but definitely concern that the one person who knows that Robbie Reyes is Ghost Rider is now back out there running around, doing whatever she has to do."[7] Whedon called Gabe asking Johnson to leave Robbie "another blow to Daisy and her emotional makeup" as she "has been trying to operate alone, because she doesn't want to be a danger to anyone else. Now ... Gabe voices her very fear".[6]

Additionally, discussing May's death and revival at the hands of Dr. Radcliffe in the episode, Whedon said, "she's May, so she's kind of like, 'Oh, that happened', But she now has common ground with Coulson, as if they didn't have enough common ground as it is." Executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen added that May's dying "will impact her life in ways that you may not expect at this point in time."[8]

Casting

Ellen Nadeer
, an anti-Inhuman senator.
Further information: List of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. characters

In August 2016,

Holden Radcliffe.[1] The episode introduces backstory concerning Nadeer's brother, and her reasoning for being anti-Inhumans, to be explored in later episodes.[6]

In addition to Nagra, guest stars for the episode include

Chen, Dale Pavinski as Briggs, Michael Cory Davis as agitator, Aaron Gaffrey as mystery figure and Adriana Diaz as hostage.[1] Cordova-Buckley, O'Mara, Luna, Jansen, Wraith, Henrie, and Sung reprise their roles from earlier in the series.[11][12][13] The Amazing Mertz is a magician, with Hughes himself having reached the finals of America's Got Talent in 2015 with a magic act.[14]

Cordova-Buckley, who began appearing on the show during the third season, was surprised to find the writers' characterization of Rodriguez in the episode to closely mirror her own life. Cordova-Buckley stated that, like how Rodriguez is seen in the episode, she dislikes nightclubs, and has found herself changing over time to be a different person from who her old friends remember; for Cordova-Buckley, this was seen in returning to Mexico after becoming an actor in the United States, which is reflected with Rodriguez's friends from Colombia from before she worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. as an Inhuman asset.[15]

Release

"Uprising" was first screened at New York Comic Con on October 7, 2016, where Gregg, Bennet and Luna promoted the series.[16] The episode later aired in the United States on ABC on October 11.[1] It began streaming on Netflix, along with the rest of the fourth season, on June 15, 2017.[17]

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 2.68 million viewers.[18] Within a week of its release, "Uprising" had been watched by 4.89 million U.S. viewers,[19] above the season average of 4.22 million.[20]

Critical response

Scott Meslow at

strobe effect.[22] Evan Valentine at Collider rated the episode a "good" 3 stars out of 5, calling it a solid episode and highlighting the chemistry between the series' cast and the episode's fight sequences and visual effects, which he felt were "a nice and breezy combination of the show's strengths".[23]

ScreenCrush was particularly negative, feeling the episodes' different storylines "ended up feeling like three disparate stories with some notable reaching'. He felt the Inhuman prejudice storyline and attack by looters on Gabe were forced, and that the May storyline did not "really [advance] our idea of where the AI or ghostly threads will end up". Fitzpatrick did think that the introduction of Nagra would "help Season 4 find its footing again" with a more focused overarching story.[26]

Several critics felt that events in the episode—particularly the terrorist-caused blackouts in major cities around the world, and the public relegitimization of S.H.I.E.L.D.—were problematic due to the series' connection to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Meslow felt it was questionable for the series to feature a crisis such as the blackouts, given they "would surely attract the attention of at least one Avenger".[21] Valentine felt that the S.H.I.E.L.D. announcement would fall alongside other events on the series that "will never be reflected in the [MCU] movies ... it does sometimes make you aggravated when the series can go for such broad strokes to the universe without any mention in the movies themselves".[23] Fitzpatrick concurred with Valentine, saying the announcement will "never, ever be acknowledged by any other Marvel property."[26]

References

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