Agatha All Along (season 1)

Far from spellbinding, Agatha All Along is an empty cauldron of unoriginal and pedestrian storytelling.
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Starring
Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Aubry Plaza
Creator
Jac Schaeffer
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Release date
Sept 19, 2024
Where to watch
Disney+
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Rating Summary
The first two episodes of Agatha All Along are a mixed bag of performances with a relatively restrained Kathryn Hahn capably piloting the action as others show varying degrees of competence when navigating an uneven script.
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Agatha All Along follows the infamous witch Agatha Harkness after her defeat in WandaVision. Stripped of her powers, Agatha is trapped in a small-town police procedural world. She teams up with a mysterious teenager who helps her break free from a spell and embarks on a journey along the legendary Witches’ Road to regain what was stolen.

Agatha All Along (S1:E1 & E2) Review

As a surprisingly restrained Kathryn Hahn capably pilots a cast with varying degrees of talent through an uneven and entry-level script, the one thing that remains consistent throughout these initial episodes of Agatha All Along is the question, “Who is this for?” The core cast has an average age of just under 50 years old, but their characters exhibit the maturity of 20-something wine moms, and the writing isn’t any better.

If I were to sum up these first two episodes, I’d say that they were like 1993’s Hocus Pocus without the charm, humor, adventure, or creativity.

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WOKE ELEMENTS

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  • There are rumors that this is going to be the “gayest” Marvel series, and so far, they haven’t exactly shied away from it, but they haven’t yet gone full gay, either.
    • The only male character is a soft-looking soy boy who wears make-up and nail polish, is a total beta fangirl to Agatha, and whose “boyfriend” conveniently calls in one scene so that his image and title as “Boyf” on Soy Boy’s phone could be prominently displayed, thereby removing any ambiguity for the audience.
      • Otherwise, his homosexuality has nothing to do with the narrative.
  • Several quick moments are shared between Agatha and Aubrey Plaza’s characters that suggest the two might have once been romantically involved.
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  • Agatha is demeaning and cruel to everyone, but only the men take it or seemingly deserve it.
    • This is especially prominent in the first episode, which is also the only episode of the two with men other than Soy Boy.

 

Agatha All Along (S1:E3) Review

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James Carrick

James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.

5 comments

  • ega

    September 19, 2024 at 4:52 pm

    This thing sounds like garbage, just not smelly garbage. The Devil Mouse is not to be trusted anymore.

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  • Kurt

    September 29, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    Thanks for your review. I know reviewing TV doesn’t seem to be as prestigious as being a film critic, but I think many people watch more TV than go to or stream movies. Therefore, I would encourage you to review more TV. Since streaming TV shows aren’t aimed at as wide of an audience as movies are, they are more likely to be woke. Therefore, It’s really difficult to find shows that are watchable.

    May I suggest reviewing some popular shows that seem to have potential, like Bad Monkey, Only Murders in the Building, Slow Horses, The Old Man, The English Teacher, Nobody Wants This High Potential, Colin From Accounts, High Potential, and Industry among others.
    I think your website is great and I like the way you review movies, but I think more TV reviews would be a big plus. While there are a few conservative film critics doing something similar, there isn’t anyone doing TV.

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  • Sweet Deals

    September 29, 2024 at 6:15 pm

    The review asks “Who is this for?” Well, not me. I never watch anything Disney-Marvel because I usually hear from viewers that they’re rushed and pandering. But since the question was asked, my mind won’t rest until I’ve taken a stab at answering it.

    Several years ago, I walked into a shop that specialized in knick-knacks. I saw a bunch of things that combined a cutesy aesthetic with crude vulgarity, and cute motivational signs that encouraged drinking lots of wine and declaring life to be an inconvenience without it. “Suburban wine mom” is a bad stereotype punchline these days. On paper, this woman is successful, affluent and has everything she wants. However, she obviously can’t be very happy if she spends all her time drinking to make life go away and justifying that as the ideal lifestyle. I walked out feeling disgusted, thinking that I would never want to be anything like that.

    I also have encountered the “soy boy” feminine fantasy. It seems to me there is a certain breed of woman who is awkward, has low confidence, and is sexually frustrated. For one reason or another, she can’t date any real boys, so she indulges in low-testosterone male substitutes. A few of them go through a lesbian phase, but others invent husbands whose primary function is to look charming, run errands and heavy lifting, be a cheerleader to his woman, sire her children, and then conveniently die off when he’s no longer necessary. Or she takes pleasure in forcing imaginary men to smooch each other; the more improper the romance and the more control she exerts over it, the more satisfaction she gets out of it. It’s everything that makes a man seem like a dreamboat, except without that pesky “masculinity” that makes real men too weird, too gross or too threatening. If you asked a woman to choose between a red-blooded human male and an android husband, she’s likely pick the robot man nine times out of ten. It’s a fantasy that provides comfort, but you can’t form a meaningful relationship with a fantasy. (I didn’t watch the original Wandavision series, but if memory serves, wasn’t it something about a witch with magical powers being married to a robot living out a nostalgic sitcom parody fantasy that wasn’t real?)

    Fantasy is not an inherently bad thing, but do the fantasies we create inspire us to become better people? It seems to me that popular culture tells women to desire things that make them unhappy. The traits that women are encouraged to cultivate as a source of power are the ones I dislike the most (e.g. being flighty, selfish, vindictive). And every time I see a “girlboss”, the narrative says she’s supposed to be universally beloved, but among audiences she is universally despised. Perhaps one of the most harmful things about “woke” is that it establishes a set of fantasies and cultural narratives that don’t inspire us to actually become better people, but tries to rationalize that indulging our basest and most destructive desires is what will make us better people and make the world a better place, as long as you willfully deny the truth and all the consequences.

    Because I don’t want to close on a negative note, speaking of sitcom witches, I’d like to go back and mention Samantha Stephens on the classic ’60s sitcom “Bewitched”. Although she’s a witch with amazing magical powers, she’s actually quite sensible and quite grounded because she chooses to live a mortal lifestyle. The other witches on the show mock her for marrying a mortal man and living as a housewife and mother, but they also use their powers to be flighty and vindictive, and the young warlocks who compete for Samantha’s affection tend to be weak soy-boys who were smothered by their mothers and can’t think or act for themselves. And more recently in our minds, the ’90s sitcom “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” was also well-received. Sabrina and her aunts have magical powers, but most of the episodes usually involve the magic backfiring in a form of poetic justice to teach moral lessons. Having magic can make a lot of amazing things possible, but it doesn’t make acting like a mature grown-up any easier. If women truly had unique and magical powers, there has to be a better way for them to use those powers for good.

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    • Sweet Deals

      October 1, 2024 at 12:51 pm

      It’s a couple days later, but I just thought up the punchline. The type of women I described above are what we would call “witches”. Not because they have magical powers and cast spells, but because they exhibit toxic femininity. It’s a show by witches for witches.

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  • Alyssakav

    November 1, 2024 at 10:33 am

    Well just finished the last episode and the whole last scene you can see about 27 pride flags, a trans lives matter flag. Thank gosh it’s not a children’s show. I brush it off, but man I’m so sick of it

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