Has Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Turned a Corner?

After an underwhelming premiere, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has improved every week–but it’s done so in steps so small, it was hard to imagine the show having the kind of dramatic turnaround that made Arrow a must-watch show after a shaky start last year.Reviewers and casual fans alike found themselves saying–over and over–“it was better than last week’s, but I don’t know if that’s enough to keep me watching.” And when, last week, the show took a week off just a month into the new season, that downtime without S.H.I.E.L.D. gave way to a handful of columns about “the problem with S.H.I.E.L.D.,” most of which were variations on the same themes. Since we’ve touched on the problems that the show has, and offered some simple ideas for what we would do to help, we won’t discuss that here.Especially because this week, the show stopped with the baby steps and took a big leap forward.