Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will end after season 7

If you’re a fan of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC, then you’re probably not going to like what you are about to read. Speaking to Deadline ahead of the show’s first-ever Hall H appearance at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con, Executive Vice President of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb revealed that the show’s upcoming seventh season will be its last.

Now that the Agents team knows the end is coming, they can take risks they couldn’t before. “Those kinds of decisions suddenly now are real on the table because you’re not playing how do we undo this when we get to the next season,” Loeb said. “You’re playing that this is going to be the end of the story.”

Agents is currently airing the backend of season 6, a season Loeb says “ends really delightfully.” I’ve been watching the show since its inaugural season way back in September of 2013, and out of all of Marvel’s television properties, it’s easily been the most steady in terms of continual character development and overall storytelling. It’ll be sad to see it end, but I have confidence they’ll do it right.

And yes, this really is the end. I know we live in an age where TV shows are regularly resurrected in some form or another, but Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is not going to show up on, say, Disney+.

In fact, season 5 was originally going to be the end for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — the final episode of that season was even called “The End.” But when ABC called and asked for one more season, Loeb and his team delivered with the help of creators Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen along with executive producer Jeff Bell. “The show started to come in, then about halfway through that season we get another call from ABC’s Channing Dungey, who is a big fan of the show, super supportive, and she says, how about a Season 7?'”

Loeb calls Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. the flagship Marvel television show, and he’s right. In 2013, Agents became the very first Marvel television show connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And through the years, characters like Nick Fury, Captain America’s love interest Peggy Carter, Lady Sif, and Maria Hill have all made appearances (Coulson doesn’t count because he’s a series regular). Stan Lee even had a cameo.

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With all that connectedness, will we see another MCU character in the show’s final season? “You have to wait and see,” Loeb teased. “Or as we used to say, that’s a level seven question.”

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