What an awesome Agents of SHIELD episode this week. "Afterlife" was perhaps their best episode, yet. It's been a while since I've been that surprised by an hour of television. Spoilers below. And lots of exclamation points! I was particularly delighted by:

Coulson and Hunter! Bad options! Awesome.
Shield Team Battlestar!
Skye's Dad! Skye's MOM! Reassembled. What! Didn't see that coming.
Reinforcements! Deathlok! Love the return of Agent Peterson.
Loaded gun!
Our bad option: Grant Ward!
The return of FitzSimmons! And the sandwich.

I'm too often spoiled by episode descriptions and Twitter, but I've been busy and not paying attention. So I went into the episode spoiler-free and I seriously enjoyed the episode more than usual.