One of Marvel’s newest shows “Agatha All Along” is a spellbinding continuation of “WandaVision” filled with many twists and turns.
The show premiered on Disney+ on Sept. 18 with its final episode airing on Oct. 30. Its premier reached 9.3 million streams on the week of its release, according to Variety.
The show quickly became a personal favorite of mine after the first episode because of the characters, humor, wardrobe, effects and a very catchy theme song in “The Ballad of the Witches Road” episode.
The show follows the witch Agatha Harkness three years after the events of the show “WandaVision” once she was broken out of the spell Wanda Maximoff placed on her.
Harkness forms a makeshift coven and they go to walk the witch’s road to understand what each respective member desires most. On the road, they face trials meant to challenge each person on the trail. If they succeed at the test they continue to walk the road, while failing the test leads to the coven member’s death.
The show is filled with sharp and sarcastic humor, but it isn’t afraid of including creepy moments. An example of creepiness can be seen through the appearances of the Salem Seven.
“Agatha All Along” has a memorable cast of characters starring Kathryn Hahn as Harkness, Joe Locke as Teen and Aubrey Plaza as Rio Vidal.
A character worth bringing up is Teen, this character remains nameless until episode five of the show, due to a sigil we can’t learn anything about him until the sigil is lifted.
His character is full of mystery, thus making him stand out against the rest of the coven who all have their stories for the audience to learn about right from the beginning.
Throughout the second half of the show, we learn Teens’ reason for wanting to go on the road is connected to his family tree, leaving a major impact on his interactions with the rest of the cast once it’s discovered.
When it comes to the trials, my favorite was in episode seven titled “Death’s Hand in Mine” which focused on the character Lilia Calderu who is portrayed by Patti Lupone.
Calderu’s challenge was to do a tarot card reading on herself to stop swords dropping from the slowly descending ceiling. Calderu is a deviation witch, which lends to her having this ability to mentally jump to different points throughout her life.
Throughout the challenge we are constantly jumping around in the timeline as she keeps having to figure out what’s not working and why. This ability of the character lent to really interesting camera work and transitions between the period she is currently at, and the way the story pacing went.
Calderu test may have been my favorite but overall my top episode of the season was episode four named “If I Can’t Reach You / Let My Song Teach You” which was Alice Wu-Gulliver’s played by Ali Ahn trial. The episode and task took on a 1970s theme and featured a different rendition of “The Ballad of the Witches Road.” With classic 70s music energy, it easily became my preferred version of the song.
I loved this episode because of the way it handled generational trauma and how even if a person you love may not be here anymore, they will still be in your heart.
I feel this show was one of the best Marvel shows in the last few years, coming from a casual Marvel fan. This show had funny, intense, creative and witchy content. It does great as a continuation of “WandaVision” while also being original.
I would recommend this show to people who are into stories with witches and magic, as well as people who may want to dip their toes into Marvel content.
