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Tremble, tremble: the witch is back! Agatha All Along picks up from the events of the WandaVision finale: we left her without powers and were forced to impersonate Agnes in the fictional town of Westview at the end of the miniseries with Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany. Now Kathryn Hahn returns to play the powerful witch Agatha Harkness in a TV series all her own. We find her defeated in a reality that apparently she claims as her own, but she will soon realize that something is wrong. Agatha All Along dusts off the comedy style of WandaVision to better explore a sarcastic character, a woman who from an antagonist has carved out a prominent place for herself in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Agatha All Along: the witching hour has arrived, and Kathryn Hahn is in top form
Bringing the WandaVision team back to work worked: Agatha All Along presents itself as an atypical TV series, exactly as the 2021 miniseries was. As soon as we start the first episode (which cites Murder in Easttown, the HBO miniseries with an extraordinary Kate Winslet), we don't understand exactly what we're watching. Gradually, Agnes begins to realize that something is wrong in her world. A bit like what happened in WandaVision, the clues begin to appear and disappear. The fragments of the reality she experienced before this one resurface in her mind and crowd her memories. Agnes thus begins to become aware of herself and understand what happened to her.
Witches and the occult have always been fascinating topics, addressed in different ways through books and the screen. This is why Agatha Harkness is a character who can exist alone, without necessarily being tied to a franchise. Kathryn Hahn is in great shape: when we see her for the first time, three years after the miniseries WandaVision, it seems time has never stopped. The actress is attached to the character, she has become so fond of her that every movement of Agatha is made with awareness and naturalness. It is an Agatha that we already know, a manipulative and somewhat selfish witch, endowed with an unmistakable sarcasm that seems not to care about people unless she has a particular purpose. Here, her personality is amplified and deepened by new characters who, in some way, are linked to her and her past.
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Agatha All Along is a “magical” series
Agatha’s new story begins when mysterious goth Teen (played by Joe Locke) helps her break free from a spell. The young man's role is yet to be discovered, but it adds freshness to the ‘witchcraft’ topic: the character is a sort of fanboy who wants to be part of Agatha’s world. To recover her lost powers, the witch needs to travel the mythical Witches Road, but first, she must gather a coven. A difficult task. Among her colleagues are the charismatic Jennifer (Sasheer Zamata), the divination expert Lilia Calderu (Patti LuPone), and the mysterious Alice Wu-Gulliver (Ali Ahn). The character of Aubrey Plaza is kept quiet: enigmatic and disturbing, her character will reserve many surprises.
Agatha All Along is a “magical” series, that contains a lot of meat on the fire, and it is impossible to talk about it without ruining the viewing of the episodes. A bit of a comedy, a bit of a musical (you sing and dance, the witches’ song will resonate in your head like a summer hit), a bit of a drama: Agatha All Along is proof that not all spin-offs are wasted, especially if you manage to find the magic formula to make them work.
Agatha All Along: evaluation and conclusion
Even though I have only seen four of the nine planned episodes, Agatha All Along really promises well. Bringing back the technical team behind the success of WandaVision has paid off: the series with Kathryn Han (who has now made an original and engaging character her own, becoming as popular as Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff) is watched with pleasure and transport, until the last minute.
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