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The GuardianSep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The coven and more peripheral characters (many of whom are returning from WandaVision) don’t have a weak link, and the script is burnished to a high shine and slips seamlessly from comedy to tragedy and back again. There is plenty of action, but plenty of depth too. It’s the perfect show for Halloween season, but an absolute treat any time at all.
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Sep 18, 2024
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It’s all cleverly done and very funny but also suspenseful and a little scary, with a winning combination of the supernatural and the banal (the witches arguing about who was pitchy and who was flat when they sing a magic song). .... Hahn is hilarious, which makes her likable good company, whatever her shenanigans or cutting remarks.
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Sep 18, 2024
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In "Circle Sewn With Fate, Unlock Thy Hidden Gate," the pace is downright brisk. In just 40 minutes, we've gotten a whole coven together and motivated them to perform a complex spell that requires everyone to work together. With only four episodes remaining and several trials on the road to get through, Agatha All Along seems like the rare MCU show that won't outstay its welcome.
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Sep 18, 2024
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Agatha feels accessible and unique, offering a spooky, fun Halloween-season romp sure to keep you on the edge of your seat week after week. Just four episodes in, this series has a clearer identity than almost all of its predecessors, and fantastically utilizes the medium and its talented players to craft an engaging, funny, smart, sexy, singular show.
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Sep 18, 2024
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Even when the mechanics of its story aren’t entirely clear to the audience, “Agatha All Along” is never less than thoroughly enjoyable. There’s a sense of fun, not to mention consistent episodic structure, in the coven’s journey down the Road, punctuated by Agatha’s tantrums and waystations set-designed to the gills.
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ColliderSep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Fans who have been anxiously awaiting Agatha All Along since WandaVision ended are sure to be satisfied with where things go. Not only that, but the show serves as a compelling entry point for new fans, too, feeling like the beginning of a new, magic-heavy side of the MCU with the kind of characters who haven’t been given the spotlight before.
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SlashfilmSep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The first four episodes of "Agatha All Along" have done a great job at finding the balance between turning Marvel lore into a spooky fun time (not unlike "Werewolf By Night") and laying the groundwork for what has the potential to be one of the best Marvel TV shows on the roster by being unapologetically its own thing.
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Sep 18, 2024
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There's fun to be had with a premise like this. Unfortunately it takes a while to get there. Agatha All Along's debut pair of episodes are not terribly representative of the show. .... In fact, the show doesn't feel like it truly begins until the other witches are present. It's here where a loose structure begins to settle in. .... Here's hoping it's finally learned how to build a proper show around her.
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Sep 18, 2024
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Satisfaction is much less forgiving, and a smarter show, or even just one more concerned with not setting its audience up for a fall, wouldn’t let quite so much hinge on the result of filling in a few blanks. .... That’s not to say Agatha All Along isn’t enjoyable, even if most of the joy is to be found around the edges. .... But I could feel myself bracing for the part when it gets less fun, when the self-contained storytelling gives way to larger imperatives and the fun turns into homework.
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Sep 18, 2024
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The possibility remains that these disparate elements will come together in a satisfying way when the whole arc of the show is clear. For now, Agatha All Along makes a fun enough Halloween season watch for those who love witchy classics like Practical Magic and The Craft, but won’t strike most Marvel fans as essential viewing.
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IndieWireSep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The stake-less drama I already went over, but the jokes are sparse, the effects are too slapped-together, and the scares are polite. The consistent creative spark needed to boost a serviceable series into something more just isn’t there. As with many Marvel series, there’s plenty of potential in “Agatha All Along,” but past precedent is working against the final five episodes.
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The PlaylistSep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
As trifling as “Agatha All Along” feels, at least it’s watchable, marginally humorous, and not at all like Marvel homework despite its connection to past Marvel shows. Furthermore, and maybe this is faint praise, at least it’s a big step up from the dire “Secret Wars” and “Echo” nadir.
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Sep 19, 2024
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Creator Jac Schaeffer, a “WandaVision” veteran, conjures up a decent amount of lore and incident, clever ideas and solid performances, but fails to work much out with any real pizzazz. Plotlines feel arbitrary and old hat, while characters struggle to be more than wisecrack machines.
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Sep 18, 2024
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One of the most versatile and transformative actors of her generation, she [Kathryn Hahn] is just so good at playing bad (or really, playing anything a Hollywood script can throw at her). You wonder, given she's the real draw of the show, why she's hidden beneath excess characters and themed costumes.
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The TelegraphSep 19, 2024
The TimesSep 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
When this show embraces its gothic side, whether it is creepy ballads to open a portal, haunting spectres in a peculiar house or hooded figures, it could be an early Halloween treat, particularly for adolescents. A Hocus Pocus for Gen Z. Yet the jokes and set pieces often miss the mark. .... The main problem is, like the recent Star Wars series Ahsoka and The Acolyte, we’re now watching spin-offs of spin-offs, supporting characters of supporting characters.
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RogerEbert.comSep 18, 2024
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“Agatha All Along” is sometimes held together by the ensemble’s natural skill set and camaraderie. .... The four episodes available to press go through the derivative Point-A-to-B structure, featuring one-note characters traveling to a CGI world. And because the episode count is so minimal, the story’s flow is frantic, leaving pieces of potential regarding character scattered in its path.
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Sep 18, 2024
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It tries to keep us engaged by dangling calculated mysteries over future episodes. Who is the Teen? What's the backstory between Agatha and Rio? It's a cynical type of storytelling, and one I only tolerate in comic book adaptations with higher entertainment value. Maybe things will pick up in the latter five episodes, but for now, Agatha All Along has very little to offer.
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