Cinepals - AGATHA ALL ALONG Episode 3 Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

The witch is back! After the events that took place during "WandaVision" & "Doctor Strange 2," Agatha Harkness has been released from the Scarlet Witch's spell and sets out to recruit former unwelcoming allies so she can reclaim her powers. Agatha All Along stars Kathryn Hahn (Transparent, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Ingrid Goes West), Patti LuPone (Beau Is Afraid. Steven Universe), Sasheer Zamata (Home Economics, Woke), Ali Ahn (Anya), Debra Jo Rupp (That '70s Show) & Joe Locke (Heartstopper) Watch our cutdown reaction on Youtube at https://youtube.com/@cinepals or become a Patron and watch the full episode along with us https://www.cinejump.com ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals

Senna. Pows. We're continuing forward with a char all along. Oh, Agatha all along. No, Charles loves that. It never gets old. Just like you. Wow.

That's nice. That's actually a nice thing to say about me. Wow. I wasn't expecting that. I only expect roasts and burns. Your Benjamina button. Agatha all along, episode Trace. Here we go.

Everyone is safe. Not everyone. Oh, no. No. Sharon's dead. No, you called it. No. That sucks. Damn it. She didn't even consent.

Who's Sharon? I'm up with me. What? Well, that was definitely an exciting episode. I really, really enjoyed that. Like, as this series is going on, like, after the first episode, once we started getting into, the witchy things, I'm like, oh my gosh, I am so into this. Like, it's just really, really fun, you know? And yeah, I just like that whole aspect to it. Like, even aside from the Marvel stuff

and how it's connected to the MCU as a whole, I just find this really refreshing to delve into this magical world with these characters where, like, they're basically on a quest to, you know, get to the end of the road and get the thing that they want. Yeah, I just wish this came sooner, like last week, you know, because this would have been a cool episode too. Like, if they just made episode one shorter and then made one and two, like, just one long episode one, and then this is episode two. Sure, sure.

That would have been cool. Because, like, this is super, like, they ended in a good spot as a cliffhanger last week, and here they're ending in another cliffhanger, so to speak, because you're wondering if they're going to be able to save her. Yeah. I feel like that should happen. I feel like they should bring her back. That's got to be part of the mission of the group, right?

I mean, it's witchcraft is magic. They're like, why wouldn't you be able to bring her back? That's got to be part of it, no? I don't deal in bringing people back magic. But it could be that, you know... I deal in skincare magic. No, because normally if you ever deal in that sort of thing, it requires you a life for a life.

That's normally how it is, right? But didn't she drink the thing before the time ran out? Yeah, technically. So I don't know. I feel like there is a possibility that they could bring her back. It kind of saddens me that we'll be missing Mrs. Hart. And it makes me sad too because I saw comments on last week's episode where people were like, protect Mrs. Hart at all costs.

And it's like, yeah, no, she's not protected. She's dead, you know. But it is the road. And so I feel like anything could happen. It could be part of the test. I mean, they did say that walking the road is very dangerous. Right, but the thing is that the thing popped open after Sharon drank the stuff. Now, what even makes it a weird or cliffhanger is that Agatha doesn't recognize her?

She's like, who's Sharon? Because she knows her as Mrs. Hart. That's the whole joke. That was a joke at the end, or was it? No, but like that's the, well, this is how I'm taking it. It's like every single time she's talked to her, she's like, Mrs. Hart. And then she's like, no, I'm Sharon, you know, because Mrs. Hart was the name that Wanda gave her when they were under the spell. That can't just be like, you know, a Ron Boehner joke or whatever the guy's name was from the first season.

Oh, yeah. You know, like, it's got to be more than a joke. It has to have some sort of implication. Maybe, maybe. That's what I took it as. But you might be right. You know, it might be that she genuinely doesn't remember it. and it's as if she'd ever existed.

I guess we'll have to wait until the next episode to find out. But, I mean, I just really enjoyed this so, so much. Like you said, it was just, like, really exciting. And it's interesting getting a taste of, or a glimmer of what all of their traumas are. Like, I get the sense that for Jennifer, it seems like maybe that guy taught her stuff. And then he got jealous because she got really good. Gotcha. And then he probably, like, locked her powers or something like that.

So for those of you guys who were, like, confused about my X-Men reference, in X-Men 97, in one of the recent, the recent show, in one of the episodes, like, the scary Jean Grey, I don't know which one it was. But one of them came to the, to the Xavier's mansion for the gifted and just, like, made it a scary, like, nightmarish house. Right, right, right, yeah, yeah. And so that's, like, immediately that's from my head one,

because it's all taking place in a house. But then also, Flatliners is a bunch of people who experiment with the afterlife come back and they're having to confront some crazy shit from their past. Yeah. So, yeah, I thought that those elements are just really fun to explore in this, you know, with these characters and seeing how they deal with it. Yeah, and finding out about Agatha's past and, like, what she had to give up in order to get the dark hold was really interesting as well. Like, it kind of gives you a really good insight into her character because I feel like,

If you're a mother, being able to give up your child in order to get power isn't something that a lot of women would do. Like, you'd have to be a very specific type of woman. Or desperate. Or, yeah, to be like, fine, take my child. It's in order for me to gain this power. Yeah. And so I actually found that really moving.

Like, you can feel her sense of regret maybe as she's in her. nightmare and she pulls the blanket back and it's the book you know it's like oh crap like she really wanted to see her baby there she didn't even get to super random reference it's just where my brain went uh the whole thing with his name being cut out you know for that moment immediately every time it happens it reminds me of kill bill volume one oh because when um what's monumitherman's character tries to say her name it gets bleeped out as a weird joke that i don't get it's some deep reference that i don't understand and so that's where my or my head went, but also in Kill Bill, she thought she lost her kid.

Right. But the whole thing is like, no, actually, her kid's still alive. And so I'm like, I feel like that's got to be the connection. It's so obvious, but unless there's something else that I don't see coming, maybe it's too obvious, and so maybe it can't be that. Who knows? I mean, it's magic, right? So literally anything can happen.

And as they've established with the witches, because of their magical powers, they're able to live for a very long time. A lot of these witches are like over 100 years old. or like a couple of centuries old. Right. So who knows? First of all, I would imagine that Agatha has had that power or did that to gain the dark hold many, many years ago, like centuries ago, perhaps.

And so with magic, who knows, maybe teen is her son because there is something, you know, what you said when we watched the first two episodes, you were like, kind of looks like her. You know, like maybe that is something where he might be her secret son. I don't remember saying that, but cool, I'll take the credit. Yeah, you did. But if that's the send-off for Deborah Joe Rupp, who plays Sharon, you know, she did a great job for those two episodes. Yeah.

She definitely made it more fun, you know, her whatever. She just, for energy. Yeah, she was just such a delight, and it was just really cute to have her be the fish out of water and have her be, like, really excited about random things that, like, any of us might be, like, her response to the house being like, oh my God, this is like a dream house and like getting excited about the wine and being upset about the upholstery

and stuff like that. It's all like really mundane and funny. If she is in fact dead, then her losing her purse was foreshadowing, right? Because it's like she's just not equipped for this world. No. And it's so unfair as well because she didn't ask to be part of it. Everyone else consensually came.

She'd consented to come to the party but she didn't fully know... Her arm was twisted. Yeah, she didn't fully know what was happening and so it's it's sad if that's the case yeah so the one aspect of the show that i guess i'm slightly wrestling with still is i don't have any affection for agatha yet you know what i mean because like she roped Sharon into this thing just to like get this thing going and i'm like it's hard to root for her because Sharon she got Sharon killed yeah right and then when she came out of it she just kind of shoved everybody aside like very rudely and there wasn't even so much as a thank you

for hey thanks for getting us through that Exactly. So I'm like, I'm not exactly on Agatha's side at the moment. I think that's, that's intentional. I don't think we're supposed to be on Agatha's side because she's a villain. Do you know what I mean? Like, she's not nice. She isn't nice to anybody in her coven.

She's not nice to the teen. And so I guess her arc as we go through the series is going to be that we, you know, we learn more about her as we learned about her son and her sacrifice in this episode. I'm sure as the. trials and tribulations continue on, then, you know, we'll find out more about her and like her more. It puts me in an awkward position where I'm rooting for everyone except for Agatha. And that's fine. Because as long as you're rooting for someone, I feel like that's okay.

The worst thing that can happen is if we're watching this show and we're like, we literally hate everyone and nothing else interesting is happening. Like, why are we even watching it? But I think everyone in it so far is really fun and interesting in their own right. And, like, they're dropping little hints of their past that is really interesting to me. And so I'm excited to find out more about, like, the things that happen to them that put them in the position that they're in now. I did enjoy the, I guess, pseudo-modernization of the boiling, you know, cauldron, witchcraft thing. Because there's, like, a certain idea you have of it in your mind. growing up, at least for me.

I mentioned last time, you know, playing Legend of Zelda, like, that sort of introduced me to, like, how witches look and what they behave and how they behave and what they say and all that. And so to, like, see an evolution of that through the modern lens of, you know what I mean? And using a suvite, what's it called? A suvite. A suede. Yeah.

I'm like, wow, that's fun. Okay. It's really fun. And I think it just kind of brings it to a more, like, modern era. And, like, anyone who's into things like astrology. or, you know, doing things in order, like, to match the faces of the moon. You know, you might do a new moon ritual, full moon ritual, blah, blah, blah, cleanse your crystals.

To me, that's kind of like all modern day witchcraft and stuff like that. And so I feel like a lot of women who or people, sorry, no, it's not all women, but, you know, a lot of people who are into that, we kind of feel witchy and it's fun, you know. I certainly lump myself in that group. Well, you don't have to feel witchy. I am witchy. So you guys, thanks so much for hanging out. I'm Jabby Kauai.

This is. Acharakook. Peace out.