Sure, there was a little bit here and there, but it was all tremendously predictable. Worse, the ultimate plan on Fury's part was terrible. Granted, most things about this show were supposed to be "gotchas" for the audience rather than the other characters--and any audience member with an imagination could figure them out in advance. Meanwhile, the characters are all inept. I was particularly frustrated with how little nuance the villains were given.
Janelle and the boys were even suggesting that we skip the finale entirely. I held out hope that there would be some reveal that made us rethink the entire series--there was not. Instead, there's an easily seen-through deception and an unnecessary fight between superpowered individuals (due to Fury's terrible plan) that was the exact thing that She-Hulk mocked in its finale.
Nick Fury (and Samuel L. Jackson) deserved better. For that matter, so did all of the other characters and actors. The one bright spot was Olivia Colman's character, Sonya Falsworth, who stole every scene that she was in.
Don't watch it. Here's all that you will likely need to know for any future tie-ins [FULL SPOILERS]:
- Nick Fury has a wife who is a Skrull (alien shapeshifter) and they returned together to the SABER space station.
- James Rhodes (AKA Rhodey AKA War Machine--played by Don Cheadle) and Agent Everrett Ross (played by Martin Freeman) had been replaced by Skrulls for an uncertain amount of time (definitely after Civil War) but are now back.
- Maria Hill (played by Sobie Smulders), Talos (played by Ben Mendelsohn), and his wife, Soren, (played by Emma Forrest in Captain Marvel) were all killed (Soren somehow died before the events of the show).
- Talos and Soren's daughter, G'iah, (played by Emilia Clarke) now has the powers of nearly every Marvel character from Infinity War (good and bad guys) and is working for the British government under the aforementioned Sonya Falsworth
- The U.S. President declared that all aliens (including Asgardians?) are to be killed on sight which has lead to a rise in vigilante "justice" against Skrulls and even people mistakenly believed to be Skrulls.
There. Hopefully The Marvels (which comes out in November) manages to clean up some of this mess and redeem the characters involved.