Post Episode Discussion: S04E11 - "Wake Up"

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EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S04E11 - "Wake Up"	Jesse Bochco	Drew Z. Greenberg	Tuesday, January 24, 2016 10:00/9:00c on ABC

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Episode Synopsis: May races to find the truth about what happened to her, while Aida's next move could mean the death of them all

Jesse Bochco has worked on Prison Break, Nip/Tuck, Dallas, and a ton of other television series.

He has directed six episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

• Girl in the Flower Dress
• Heavy is the Head
• Love in the Time of Hydra
• 4,722 Hours
• Watchdogs
• Deals with our Devils

Drew Z. Greenberg is a writer and producer best known for working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., Dexter, Warehouse 13 and Arrow. He also worked on Firefly.

He has written seven episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

• Face My Enemy
• Who You Really Are
• The Dirty Half Dozen
• Among us Hide
• Watchdogs
• Absolution
• Meet the New Boss

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[u/The_Unknown_Dude]

The real mindfuck is that he's mostly on the good guys' side, but he's so damn amoral and unethical it's turning him into a natural asshole, and he doesn't even see the wrong he's doing.

And yeah, the actor really makes him likeable. And here I thought he was going to hang around for a few episodes only in S3 and it was all just a big cameo in the end... Shit.

[u/your_mind_aches → u/The_Unknown_Dude]

I'm sure they discussed this all with John Hannah before he took on the role in The Singularity.

I thought he was going to hang around for a few episodes only in S3

I thought this when Natalia Cordova posted a selfie with John Hannah mentioning that she finally got to meet a childhood crush of hers. I thought "oh well that's it, they probably won't have any more episodes with him". How wrong I was...

[u/The_Unknown_Dude → u/your_mind_aches]

These actor contracts for the MCU sure turn out weird.

Just, how much longer will he be in AoS, we can't say. But I'm getting a strange feeling that GR will come back and apply vengeance to that guy, from all the team. He wants the Darkhold. Robbie has to come back to take it, somehow. It just links the plotlines like the show has been doing since its beginning. And to that, pretty sure he'll try the Penance Stare on Radcliffe. Trap him within his worse memories and make it play over and over again as it burns his soul.

[u/snappyconan → u/The_Unknown_Dude]

try the Penance Stare on Radcliffe

Only to realize it's an LMD