Disney+ Hotstar has taken up the first five seasons of Marvel Television and ABC Studios’ critically acclaimed series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
A total of 110 episodes are set to stream on the OTT platform from 27 July 2020. The sixth season of the series is currently streaming on Netflix in India and the show’s seventh and final season is currently underway on ABC.
Created by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, the series revolves around the Marvel Comics organisation S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division), a peacekeeping and spy agency in a world of superheroes.
Set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is based on S.H.I.E.L.D. by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and acknowledges the continuity of the franchise’s films and other television series. The series is also co-produced by Mutant Enemy Productions besides Marvel and ABC. Jed Whedon, Tancharoen, and Jeffrey Bell serve as the showrunners.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stars Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, reprising his role from the film series, alongside Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker and Elizabeth Henstridge. Nick Blood, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, Luke Mitchell, John Hannah, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward joined in later seasons. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents deal with various unusual cases and enemies, including Hydra, Inhumans, Life Model Decoys, alien species such as the Kree and Chronicoms, and time travel.