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

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: LMD is the second major story arc of Season 4

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: LMD

In Season 4, the best season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to this point follows up the excellent "Ghost Rider" story line,  with "LMD" which switches gears from the supernatural to the high-tech. Despite Agent MacKenzie's dire predictions that any attempt to create autonomous androids inevitably leads to a robot uprising, Fitz nevertheless assists Dr. Radcliffe in developing them. As predicted, the First Law of Robotics pretty much goes out the window fast.

While the Marvel Cinematic Universe has touched on some robot and android related issues, particularly with Ultron and Vision, "LMD" takes advantage of the longer form TV medium to go deeper.

LMD stands for "Life Model Decoy", androids that have been part of the S.H.I.E.L.D. comics since the mid-1960s, and it's interesting to see their long-awaited integration into the show. While we experienced something similar in past seasons with the face-changing mask, now the show goes whole hog with the Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, who-can-you-trust situations.

All-in-all, one of the series' better story arcs.

**** out of *****