Modern viewers revisiting Season 1 often divide the 22-episode run into two distinct halves: the slow-burn world-building phase and the breathless, high-stakes fallout of Captain America: The Winter Soldier . The First Half: Establishing the Stakes (Episodes 1–15)

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The genius of Season 1 is that everything is a reference to something else: