The Reel Rejects - AGATHA ALL ALONG 1x1 & 1x2 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:45 opinions let me tell you what to think uh i'm enjoying this quite a bit so far it's definitely something that's pitched up my alley so i'm also like kind of gonna wait and see how this uh you know pans out but uh at the out it's set. I really enjoyed that we at least picked up with the TV you know, style riff motif coming out of Wanda Vision and you know

Starting point is 00:02:09 sort of extrapolating on her imprisonment here. It's an interesting thing to watch them do especially when you're not making that like the main motif of the show I don't think like it's more of like kind of a gag or a gimmick for the first episode and so I like that they took a good amount of time

Starting point is 00:02:26 to let that unfold although I feel like you might argue that they could have done more depending but you know it's like these two episodes definitely set up like the journey is a foot we're done with act one it makes a lot of sense but I am curious to see like what the rest of the show feels like because I can imagine these trials and things you know flavoring each episode but it did seem like yeah we went from you know prestige crime small town you know drama thing into you know more of what the actual show is just going to continue feeling like this, yeah, which adventure, which I enjoyed both flavors of it. There were times in the

Starting point is 00:03:03 dramatic true crime portion that pushed maybe a little to the edges of like, oh, goodness, this is, it's well capturing the style of what it is, but it's maybe kind of threatening to become a little silly in the wrong way. But it never really got to that point before they broke the illusion and kind of let you know what's really happening, or at least what the main sort of adventure is. But at the outset, I really like Agatha and we're just going to call them Billy together. I think they're back and forth.

Starting point is 00:03:37 It's really fun to see the flavors of everybody who they have to assemble for this makeshift coven. So at least from here, I really enjoyed watching these and they have a lot of the spooky, again, witchy flavors from various kinds of witch movies and stories that, you know, appeal greatly to me. And I think they're doing a fun job of that. here and that you know sapphic energy that sort of like elemental you know sort of fluid sisterhood energy uh is hidden for me so uh so yeah i'm cautiously optimistic so far what do you think so

Starting point is 00:04:10 is something you didn't like about it not really anything that i like didn't like uh specifically but uh i don't know i mean i'm waiting to see again how well this proportions itself because at least right now there have been a couple moments of like oh yeah there's some exposition for you but like the cast i think has done a really nice job and i'm at least intrigued by all this and the world is flavorful and fun uh i'm you know mostly now looking to see if it can manage to i guess like in the early part of the episode there were certain moments where i was like okay this is doing a good riff on like a crime you know tv show but there are a couple moments here or there and even actually later on the second episode like when the um hooded figures are

Starting point is 00:04:58 breaking in. Like there are times and moments every now and again where I'll be like it seems like this scene that we're cutting to is kind of stalling a little bit so that this other scene that we're cutting to that's moving very quickly can have like some kind of tension but like why isn't Billy just sort of running downstairs

Starting point is 00:05:14 at a certain point? This is usually like little things like that or like maybe one or two scenes where I'm like you could go a little bit more I don't know interesting with this but you know nothing that seemed outright flat or that you know took me out of it in any major sort of way so i mean so far so decent at least

Starting point is 00:05:36 mainly i just hope that they can keep building on this and i mean you know they did things i wasn't expecting to see certainly that whole naked sequence i certainly was not expecting them to you know it's not that scandalous but uh for where we are and and the context of the world we're used to being in like you know nudity and and the sort of casting off and just being free in your purest form. Like, that's a witch-story motif, most certainly, and I'm glad that they found a way to even incorporate that here. And I was, like, surprised that they allowed that to play out the way that it did,

Starting point is 00:06:13 you know, and to be kind of more than just a one-shot gag. I expected her to be there in the window with sunlight pouring in, and then immediately cut to robe clothes, and we're going outside. So, I don't know. This certainly seems steeped in the kind of thing that it is, you know, selling itself as, you know, I like the idea that this seems like is going to, like, commit to expanding the more occult, magical side of things, you know, because Wanda Vision had a lot of that, too, in this sort of like science fiction and also, obviously, sitcom package. But, you know, the actual mysticism of it at the very end becomes mostly like a powers battle. So I'm curious to see if and how they expound upon, like, witchcraft in this world because they have, like, I like they made that distinction. We've got the potions master.

Starting point is 00:07:07 We've got the protection spell master. We've got the, you know, clairvoyant divinations master, you know, like, oh, cool, we're expanding what magic means and what different kinds of wielders there can be, at least for, you know, the on-screen world. So that says to me that, okay, we're going to actually, like, you know, commit to this kind of story. Yeah. What do you think? It's good. This is good?

Starting point is 00:07:38 It's all right. It's good stuff. It's pretty decent. I think that, I mean, the journey is interesting because I think the first episode, when we were in the true crime stuff, I found, or not the true crime, but the mystery, detective element. I like the commitment to it because it didn't feel like unique or something to, if it seemed like just, if I had just turned this on and I didn't know that I was watching Agatha, I'd be like, this just seems like a show that feels like a lot of other mystery shows.

Starting point is 00:08:13 The next true detective mayor of East Town, whatever it is. Yeah, it feels like a generic version of that. and it's the mystery elements i i find those to be more a little more intriguing i was a bit taken abbey plaza rio character in the detective vision sequence and then when it comes to the reality after agatha wakes up i found myself a little bit let down by oh i just want to kill you like I just want to like make you suffer or something like that right and it was just about that because it seemed like it was building something that would be significantly more interesting with like personal from the past or something yeah wanting to bring her out for something bigger

Starting point is 00:09:01 rather than I just want you to suffer because I'm mad at you yeah I mean there might be more that's just what the show was telling us right there especially because she burst into just like I'm gonna kick your ass you know so it was a little bit uh let down by that's like uh that'd be a little more clever or something more because it seemed like they were saying of something intriguing and then it wasn't intriguing when you got to the reality yeah um the dynamic between agatha and billy is pretty pretty solid there are times where it does feel like i i can i i can hear the script and what i mean by that is i i can feel like it's like i'm aware there's like a dialogue being written sure if if that makes sense like i'm aware of it being performed like i'm not just like in the moment with them sometimes a lot of times i am but there's other times where a bit of that banter feels like a little bit um forces a harsh word uh for it slightly canned yes yes but overall i like it and the mystery around billy i think they're doing really well of like why is his voice blocked out why is the backstory blocked out um and it's cool connective tissue to bring over from

Starting point is 00:10:13 Wanda Vision that's not a memberberry, but that makes a lot of cohesive sense. Yeah. Where I'm really loving it is Catherine Hahn is not just redoing what she did in Wanda Vision. I'm loving her performance. I think there's such a magnetic energy to her, and there's so much variation in her delivery that it makes it, she's really elevating the material, I think. like she's really carrying the show to the point where you say like you're going to do an agatha show not really that interested in it especially with knowing how she was sort of like a supporting side character in wanda vision and now i'm watching her and i'm like oh no she's a great lead she's a really strong leading character and it's especially due to the chops of katherine hon like she's fantastic and the rest of the casting i think is really good it does it felt the little rushed when it becomes clear that this is the putting the team together episode

Starting point is 00:11:15 yeah and i i felt like i could have used a little bit more spark and personality because it kind of all felt repetitive from everyone like i don't like you agatha i need money and here's a spooky animal yeah it's like i'm reluctantly going to go like when you do like a recruitment team episode or something like the basic the basic thing you got to do is just make everyone's just very distinct from one another and there's and it didn't feel like their personalities were like their attributes were not um strongly distinct so that was a bit of like a oh i like i enjoy it again it's like it's all it's so good like i think it's a fun show i do think it's fun i just think sometimes it um is not as strong as the potential of what we're watching

Starting point is 00:12:01 it to be it's like some of you there are certain things that like that's a pretty good version of that but i can easily see how this could be made great yeah certain instances yeah sometimes it is missing a little bit of that that extra um for certain for for certain key moments but i i do find it fun like uh the whole thing with the uh ceremonial ballad at the very end i thought that was really well edited the performance of it watching agatha surrender to the performance and the whatever creepy things at the end we're like fine to look at whatever take it i do love that they committed to the incantation thing like that that's one of those and that's something to the uh i'm always struck by that and funny enough like you know lord of the rings things

Starting point is 00:12:49 rings of powers on right now like you know those will take time to be like no song is an actual part of this and i i like that they did that here and aside from the question about i wonder if Sharon maybe even has like some kind of latent power or something that's going to get revealed just through this whole situation. But, but yeah, the makeshift forming of the coven and the sort of like ramshackleness. Like I figured the door would eventually open, but at the same time I was like, oh, I don't know. I don't know how this is still open, even though she needs, like, there must be something more to heart. That's what I'm saying. It's like maybe she has some kind of latent power or maybe it's just that, you know, enough of that energy all in one room.

Starting point is 00:13:29 you get one more conduit and maybe that's all you like she says something line about like all i said potentials or has beens or something like that they're and when she said that yeah to sighting i was like oh she referring to um yeah that's what's kind of like to me yeah absolutely but yeah the the set dressings and the you know details you know are certainly well observed and it's it's fun and i could see how this could become something really great and we just need to get the set up out of the way like I hope I hope that you know anything that felt maybe a little bit rushed here it just is in in favor of letting the second and third acts really kind of spread out and be you know substantial because I feel like one thing that commonly comes up with these shows is

Starting point is 00:14:14 like this could have either been crushed down into a movie or you know you bit off more than you could chew and you know I feel like the amount of episodes is always kind of a tricky one to get them absolutely right so I just hope the rest of the journey is like rounded in some way because this is the again this is the kind of story that gets that I am like naturally very excited for and these are the kinds of aesthetics I really enjoy so they're playing to me right now and yeah it's one of those things where I'm like relieved because it's like it's pretty good so far but it also could be they have so many great elements and now I just want to see all those great elements you know really

Starting point is 00:14:52 synthesize into movie magic where like they're all firing you know and the rhythm is you know really going yeah i guess yeah the rhythm of the pace and the you know tension of the adventure and all that stuff i guess i'm kind of curious to see what the um character arc will be for her yes you know like usually usually it's not about the like every character has a goal but it's not about the goal it's about who they become in pursuit of that goal and i don't really know what that pursuit is ultimately amounting to yeah she she going to uh because i keep building up this road i'm like are you going to deliver on the goods on this road or is it's going to be kind of whatever yeah and and is agatha's journey going to

Starting point is 00:15:37 maybe in some way be kind of an alley up for like a billy related thing ultimately like is the ultimate outcome going to be something that supports and sets up him as a character of some significance rather than really focusing it on like the namesake character like because it's interesting and like making a show about agatha is an interesting prospect because that could easily go wrong it's a character that in a lot of ways works in small doses uh and you know if is too like i think it's cool because she does feel like an actual potential anti i i hesitate to say anti-hero because her inclinations and her goals are often uh nefarious but uh it makes me curious about who her character could be because certainly now that we've met rio the

Starting point is 00:16:22 submitty who seems at least like a greater evil yeah yeah or saying and so like i don't know her her chaotic i don't know the spectrum that well she seems like not neutral whatever's like the next malevolent down from neutral chaos is what agatha seems to me so i feel like there's a lot of interesting potential it's weird it's like i i i don't know exactly what kind of show it right now to expect because like the kind of story this is i feel like you would want then to kind of embrace and go dive into all the sort of uh you're walking the crooked path like it's all about the shadows and it's all about the you know gray weird there's some line in here she says some character shouts one thing and she says but also this and somebody else

Starting point is 00:17:08 is like they're both true so like you know this this nuance of right and wrong yeah to to a right and a wrong thing can can kind of be true at once sometimes and i feel like you know the path is all about you know oh everything is upside down from what you know and everything's inverted so like i just hope that they really make the show feel like that feel like a sort of twisting uh right thing sort of i don't know yeah like i don't know how much depth to expect but i feel like they have so much potential so that's the main kind of stakes of the show for me is like are you going to satisfy a potential well i think if you're not going to do a show that it cares really about um feeling like one of those strongly connected to the marvel cinematic universe things then i think you just kind of

Starting point is 00:17:52 then you really got to commit to your own thing that you're doing and elevate it because yeah like there's nothing that feels it feels like a good play right now on the whole witchcraft thing yeah um but nothing feels entirely unique yet yeah and the uniqueness is kind of vital you want to come out the other end feeling like yeah this was and like again it's it's all it's all right there like it's theirs for the taking it's it's their game to lose almost because so much of what they have is so unique at least aesthetically already and so if they could craft a unique story out of that that also yeah has a bit like even though it is attached to a nexus point like wanda vision and something that certainly people love i feel like it would be cool and especially as they've said marvel television they don't want to do as much like reliance on crossover and i know this is kind of in a funny place because it seems like this was in production as things were being kind of changed in terms of their upstairs approach. But I do think, yeah, this is a cool opportunity for them to make something that, yeah, could just stand on its own and be a perfect thing to pull out every Halloween or whatever. And, yeah, like, again, I'm overjoyed that they are seemingly committed to doing so much of, you know, the canon of witchcraft in, it's like the ending credits, you know, pretty much spell it out visually there. It's the literature, it's pop culture, it's all that stuff over the ages.

Starting point is 00:19:20 And that's really fun. If they can make, you know, a little bit of a classic witch thing, like, I would be overjoyed. Because that's a subgenre of horror that's, like, well-engrained, but, you know, isn't... There aren't a million witch movies, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, overall, I'm enjoying it. I'm having a good time.

Starting point is 00:19:39 I think it's better than when I expected it to be, honestly. Yeah. So I'm finding myself, like, pleasantly surprised by a lot. When Aubrey Plaza was on screen, that she was great. I feel like she's a very captivating actress. Yeah. So, yeah, guys, what did you think about Agatha all? uh leave your thoughts down below and before we head out we have agatha finally returning after

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The Reel Rejects - AGATHA ALL ALONG 1x1 & 1x2 Breakdown & Review!!!

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