 Terri Schwartz , writing for Zap2it following the airing of " Nothing Personal " , called the series " incredible " , stating that it " got off to a rocky start " , but that changed once the Winter Soldier tie @-@ in took place . Schwartz felt that the season earned many of its early criticisms from having to " bide time " until the crossover , but " Now that it has the freedom to be the series it was always intended to , Marvel 's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has turned into a fantastic show . Its connection to Marvel 's Cinematic Universe is clear : This is where viewers get to see the fallout of Hydra 's S.H.I.E.L.D. infiltration . And the fact that the movie so influenced the show is game @-@ changing in terms of how the mediums of film and television can be interwoven . " 
