Marvel Studios’ Agatha All Along continues the story of the witch known from WandaVision. The series starring Kathryn Hahn is sure to anger conservatives.
by Marvel Studios WandaVisionwas introduced in the series Kathryn Hahnin played by the witch Agatha Harkness, who received stronger magic than herself in Wanda Maximoff. At the end of WandaVision, Agatha’s fate did not look very rosy. Starting today on Disney+ Agatha All Along tells the story of Agatha, who has lost her power and identity, as she searches for her way back to magic. Based on the first episodes, there will also be some growth story as he rebuilds his personality.
The new series is more of a continuation of WandaVision than its spinoff.
Agatha All Along, with a strong focus on visuals and outer shell, is, like WandaVision, a mix of more traditional television than modern, faster-paced superhero adventures. It’s also a series that, with its liberal values, will definitely succeed in angering value conservatives – and not just because of the witchcraft it contains.
Agatha All Along has already been labeled as Marvel’s “gayest” series, so the internet’s “evil woke” geeks are in for a long time.
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Following in the footsteps of WandaVision
Agatha All Along begins very similarly to WandaVision.
The main character, played by Hahn, is seen as Agnes, a battered detective who works at the Westview Police Department on a homicide investigation. The beginning of the series even tricks the viewer by looking like a traditional police series at first.
However, it begins to be revealed to Agnes already during the first episode that her life may not be completely true. He acts as one of the influencers here Aubrey Plaza performed by Rio, who clearly has unsolved issues with Agatha from the past.
However, the central catalyst is a 16-year-old boy who unexpectedly comes to her home (Heartstopperfamiliar from the series Joe Locke), who asks Agatha for help to get to the mysterious Witches’ Road.
The boy has no name, which is why Agatha ends up calling him only Teen.
Together, Agatha and Teen start putting together a witch circle of witches who have lost their powers for one reason or another (Ali Ahn, Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata), with whom they head down the dangerous path of the Witches. Somewhat by chance, the neighbor’s Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp).
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Old-school craftsmanship
Agatha All Along’s aesthetic similarity to WandaVision is easily explained by the fact that both series were created by the same person Jac Schaeffer. In the new series, however, the theme of an alternative reality is not present as strongly after the first episode as in the “parent series”. A similar idea will be sought later in the upcoming tasks on the path of witches, where the appearance of the characters changes according to the task.
Agatha All Along is very strongly visual, but the series relies on old-school aesthetics. Computer effects have been used very sparingly and the creators have instead chosen a hand-made world with touchable sets. The characters travel on the Witches’ Road like in a classic movie The Wizard of Oz age. The surface gloss of the typical Marvel series is completely missing this time.
The series, which plays with staging and costumes, largely focuses on the outer shell – at least during the first four episodes received in advance for review. Thematically, the series is getting closer dark fantasybut is still light, easy-to-watch entertainment, where music also plays an important role. You see more than one musical scene (in which it’s a bit disturbing that the lip sync doesn’t always hit the right spot).
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My own series, but not my own cartoon
Agatha Harkness is an interesting Marvel character in that she never got her own comic book. Stan Leen and Jack Kirbyn created, the character who made his debut in Ihmenelos in 1970 has only appeared in the pages of comic books in a supporting role.
Agatha from the TV series is multifaceted because the character is used to being seen mainly as a bad guy. In his own series, it’s hard to tell if he’s ultimately good or bad – he’s selfish and self-motivated, but not in a straight-up villain way. And this makes the character unpredictable and therefore fascinating.
Agatha All Along is a comic-like light entertainment series that offers WandaVision’s fan favorites a new opportunity to tell their own story. The first episodes hint at something a little deeper, but at least in the first half, the series, which focuses on superficial things, mainly offers good-looking, light entertainment, as usual for Marvel, in the spiritual footsteps of WandaVision.
Agatha All Along starts on Disney+ on September 19 with two episodes. We got a preview of the first four episodes of the nine-episode series.
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