What the corpus says about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:59 · unknown (0.35)] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · programming · Marvel then told ABC SHIELD would not exist for the film universe. · "Just so you know, Shield's not going to exist enough."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · programming · Coulson was brought back for the TV show but kept out of the movies, signaling the TV show is only loosely connected. · "you can be in the TV show, like, because we need, you know, a star for the show"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:24:34 · David Sims (0.40)] Clark Gregg ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · career · Coulson's death in Avengers and revival for the show cheapen his arc, debated here. · "Let Carl Craig have his paycheck, man, the mentor."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:16:47 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · programming · Fury is in charge of SHIELD only in this film and Avengers; afterward mostly cameos. · "So this is only the only other movie where Fury is like in charge of S.E.L.D. and kind of just like in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:33 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Agents of S.H.I.L.E.L.D. · programming · The TV show had to stall its whole first season because the film's Hydra reveal could not be tipped. · "Of course, the 1st season of SHIELD began in 2013 and had to essentially stall for almost its entire 1st season because they knew that this was coming, but they couldn't tip it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:02:12 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor ↔ The Avengers · programming · The Hawkeye cameo, with no interaction, made the speaker doubt the Avengers team-up would work. · "The thing you want to see is how they talk and interact with each other."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Disney+ Falcon and Bucky show · programming · Smaller side-character projects are the future on Disney Plus. · "That feels like what Disney Plus is going to be with the like Falcon and Bucky show and the Scarlet Wish show."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:08 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Feige pushed more cinematic-universe setup after the first film, but held most back; the Fury scene and shield joke are the result. · "Let's build shield outlets, like give them, you know, a little more of what they want."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Loki · programming · The Loki show hired a Rick and Morty writer; time-traveling premise. · "have you heard the premise of the Loki show and they hired a Rick and Morty writer?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:59 · Griffin or David (0.25)] William Hurt ↔ The Avengers · programming · Hurt's Ross is the one thread kept through the MCU and the film otherwise sits apart from Ruffalo's Hulk. · "The only kind of thread they keep."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:09:22 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · programming · Ultron resets Captain America's status quo ahead of Civil War. · "Well, it's because Age of Ultron also sort of resets Captain America a little bit."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Avengers ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The Tesseract, the glowing box, was a MacGuffin in the first Avengers and in Infinity War. · "you may remember the Tesseract from the 1st Avengers film, and then, of course, the most recent Avengers film, Avengers Infinity War"
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.