Marvel's Agents of SHIELD is still incredibly popular - over a year after the show ended. Marvel Television's flagship series, Agents of SHIELD was originally envisioned as the MCU's official tie-in TV show. It became increasingly divorced from the movies as the years passed, but ironically that became its greatest strength, because skilled writers built up a mythology all their own. Agents of SHIELD performed better than Marvel Netflix, with third-party analytics suggesting demand in the U.S. was equal to shows like Better Call Saul, Criminal Minds, and The Vikings.
Agents of SHIELD season 7 aired on ABC in 2020, with the season finale - which released in August - bringing the SHIELD team's stories to a satisfying conclusion. It featured one last MCU tie-in, an epic visit to the Quantum Realm, and ended on an optimistic note that delighted viewers who'd been tuning in since 2013. The show is now available on Disney+ - Agents of SHIELD was a hit with Disney+ Beta testers - and the streaming service has even released the last two seasons in some territories where they'd never come out before. Disney is reluctant to provide viewing figures, though, but fortunately, third-party analytics companies step forward with data that gives a hint of the show's performance.
Parrot Analytics measures online demand for various TV shows, and they've exclusively provided data to Screen Rant revealing Agents of SHIELD is still incredibly popular. According to Parrot, Agents of SHIELD was still in the top 10 superhero shows in the U.S. a full year after season 7 wrapped up, in August 2021; in fact, it was more popular than Marvel's What If...? Parrot conducted a comparison with the finales of other Marvel Television shows, and it illustrates that Agents of SHIELD has held on to audience attention the most.
Viewing figures for Agents of SHIELD were never through the roof, but it clearly built up a passionate and dedicated fanbase and reportedly performed well on DVR. It's entirely possible Disney+ has introduced a new generation of viewers to Marvel Television's old flagship, matching with the feedback from Disney+'s Beta testers. This certainly explains why the debate over Agents of SHIELD's canonicity to the MCU remains live in fan communities, with every comment from Marvel figures jumped on as evidence one way or the other.
The interesting question is whether this means Marvel Studios will ever bring back any of the actors - whether as a continuation of the story, or in a soft reboot. There have been rumors Charlie Cox will be reprising his role as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home, leading many to hope some of the SHIELD team will be brought back as well; Chloe Bennet has denied she's returning in Secret Invasion, but that doesn't mean Marvel couldn't give her a call for a later series. The studio would be wise to import Quake and some of her teammates into the main MCU, because clearly, Agents of SHIELD is still a hit.