Note: This article contains light spoilers for the season 6 premiere of Agents of SHIELD, which aired in the US last night.



Marvel's Agents of SHIELD returned for its sixth season last night (May 10) in the United States, becoming the first Marvel Cinematic Universe property to be released after Avengers: Endgame.

However, as previously revealed, because the show bosses didn't know when it would release in relation to the movie, SHIELD doesn't actually address the events of the Snap and everything that happens afterwards.

While fans may be hoping that a later episode may try to fix this timeline anomaly, series star Ming-Na Wen has said that it is probably best to just treat the show as a separate entity now.

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"So, the Snap hasn't happened yet," the actress told TVLine. "I think at this point it's safe to say that we have departed from following the [Marvel] cinematic universe in that sense, and are just telling our own stories and our own situations.

"All this is happening pre-Snap."

And there is a LOT that is happening in the first episode, including the much-teased appearance of the doppelgänger-Coulson called Sarge.

Talking about Agent May's reaction to Sarge's appearance, the star said: "In her mind, there's maybe 10 percent hope at this point that it's Coulson, but in reality she knows it's not. She needs to find out who the hell is this guy, this 'evil twin' from a parallel universe?

"I mean, she saw [Coulson] die. She buried him, in a way, so when she sees Sarge, it's like she is so pissed. She closed that chapter in her life and now that Pandora's box reopens for her and she doesn’t like it. At all."

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD airs on ABC in the US and E4 in the UK.

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