The Reel Rejects - AGATHA ALL ALONG 1x3 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:16 Witch's Road. We're watching Agatha all along, but as luck would have it, our Coven has picked up a member today as well. Coy! Welcome to the show. Glad you decided to turn up. Yeah, which. Yeah, which, please.

Starting point is 00:01:34 I think without further ado, speaking of books, Darkhold, that's a segue. Roll the bumper, let's go. Dance to you, I'm surprised. I think you're really funny. All right, let's talk about it.

Starting point is 00:01:51 The needle drops on these, too. Not bad. All right, gang. Season 1, episode 3, Coy! Since you are finally among our Yes. Among our ranks. What do you think?

Starting point is 00:02:06 Well, I always have to miss some Marvel show, and I got it out of the way first so I could join you guys for three on. And I think this is what I was missing from the first two. It's still not quite for me, but the show's not made for me, and I like that I kind of feel like it's counter-programming

Starting point is 00:02:22 that I can find my way into. I don't really connect to Desperate House wives or the shows they're referencing and I also don't really have an attachment to these characters as strongly except Agatha. For me, the first two episodes were like, Agatha, I love because the Salem Witch Trials and things, and Aubrey Plaza, I love because she's Aubrey Plaza. This episode without Aubrey Plaza, I actually didn't miss her as much as I would have assumed I would because I finally got to invest in the other witches that I didn't have a connection to. I finally got to invest in a little bit more of an arc that didn't feel redundant like this episode. The second

Starting point is 00:02:52 episode felt a little like it repeated itself. And then the first episode, I didn't love the true detective world enough. It didn't feel authentic enough. This felt authentic even though I don't know what it's referencing and it felt like the characters evolved a bit. So it's growing on me like I wanted it to and it's endearing me to the characters enough

Starting point is 00:03:11 that like the tension works, the build works really well directed. I love that the transitions were practical. Like it's a show that could have done CGI a lot of, you know, comic book stuff does but it does lighting and practical effects and actually uses set magic to move which felt like witchcraft.

Starting point is 00:03:26 which I loved. So I dug this one more. Well put, sir. Gregory, what did you think? Tell me your thoughts. Glad you asked, John. Well, I have thoughts, and my thoughts are positive thoughts, I think. I think they're really positive.

Starting point is 00:03:41 I was noticing that Catherine Hahn was taking a bit of a backseat for a lot of this episode. And I liked how they actually propped up the other witches throughout. It started feeling like a true ensemble piece. It's like one of my complaints about episode two was. that it felt like it was a bit repetitive in the recruiting process and I didn't feel the personalities were strongly distinct despite good acting. And I thought that the distinguishing aspects of people's personalities, I still feel like it could be a little bit more defined perhaps outside of like what they serve as witches. They're a witch per like, okay, one's clearly

Starting point is 00:04:15 a potion person, right? But in terms of like personality, I think we can perhaps add a little bit more of an accentuation to make them all strongly distinguished but I liked everyone a lot more here and I wasn't like just get back to focusing on Agatha just get back to focusing on Agatha because I was find myself enjoying the journey I think out of the three

Starting point is 00:04:35 this is the best directed one I think there was amazing shots and a strong grip on the build throughout it like it started off a bit ominous and slower and then they let you like gradually ease into it to the point where it started getting a little bit

Starting point is 00:04:50 crazier, more fun-housy. The commentary on men taking away women's agency and their power. How you could regain that power and all that, yeah, that's what all men do, apparently. Especially John. I do. And so, good job.

Starting point is 00:05:06 Brian's about it. Right. It's like, took her. Griffin on that kind of joke right there. Excellent work. Yes, I am. But that that, that was a very, I thought this was the, this is my favorite of the agree because of the fact that I felt like we got a really good ensemble piece, strong mystery,

Starting point is 00:05:26 and I think the usage of practical, yes, but also great blend of CGI, of VFX. But it was subtle. It never was the forefront. It was the movie magic blend. Like there's solid transitional things that are meant to seem like, you know, just one shot. Specifically, when they're in the kitchen and then that's before Agatha has the vision with baby crib and the dark hold, the way I should just walks into frame and the other customers even fade out. And I love the way how a lot of those transitions are done and how things can feel really large. Like with the oven, like, oh, you open an oven, it's easy to do

Starting point is 00:06:04 a trick shot to make it look like there's something in the oven. But then when they all start going in there, there was a bit of like a Tim Burton Beetlejuice kind of funhouse effect to it, I thought, with a bit of like spooky Mike Flanagan horror to it. I kind of feel like this show wants to go a little harder though honestly and in terms of the thematic elements and a lot of more of the traumatic commentary I kind of feel like this show is holding back a bit and that's the part of it where that kind of leaves me in a tad bit of a conflict because it's like oh we want to be the fun agatha show at the same time you know there's people behind this show are I believe the women are the ones crafted in my mom yeah jacifer writer director

Starting point is 00:06:49 Yeah, so, and I think, like, there's something there. Like, I feel like there's, like, something more underlying and strong here that they want to lean in on, especially, like, with those traumatic memory moments. And yet, I think there's a bit of a conflict within itself of not fully going there. Because they want to keep it a little bit of a fun show. I definitely get that specifically with Catherine Hahn. Like, I feel specifically, like, Agatha is, like, remember, she's bad? And then they do, like, a silly bad thing.

Starting point is 00:07:16 But I'm like, you could make her bad. Yes. But in terms of like, you know, the Disney Plus show, like, is it a little bit harder? Is it harder than a lot of the other ones? Yes, absolutely. I still feel like there is a bit of a not as strong complimentary restraint. But I am enjoying this one a lot more. I liked everyone here, and I thought this was the best episode.

Starting point is 00:07:39 Yeah, yeah, I would agree with both of your sentiments, gang, and I think that's a fair criticism. I mean, you know, I like the array of which and which craft-related lore and history that they've brought together to make this. Like, it really feels like everybody writing and crafting these, like, really knows and is interested in this kind of lore. And it is a bracket of, you know, stories and history that does come with a lot of harsh and traumatic and painful context. So, yeah, like, I would agree that it would be nice to. The glimpses are good. I'm just like, yeah, do more. Expound on that.

Starting point is 00:08:19 And it's like, I like that it's a shorter episode series. You know, it's in the half hour realm. It seems appropriate. But at the same time, things like that make me go, you could just do 45 or an hour, you know, if it meant getting a little bit more of that meat. But for what we have so far, and as it's been presented,

Starting point is 00:08:36 I am sort of increasingly enjoying the fun with a few edges flavor that they've drawn here. Yeah. And I like having, you know, It seems like they set up the whole thing about, like, oh, Agatha, you gave away your child for the dark hold. Could that be Billy? I guess we're just all going to call him Billy for any. Could it be teen?

Starting point is 00:08:53 Like, that seems like a mislead for a foregone conclusion that we're all kind of probably aware of, but it pertains to a character. It's not just an arbitrary red herring. And it still could work out that way, and that would be kind of interesting, too. I've liked the misleads so far, how we are having these conversations. I think the misleads are effective. They don't feel like they're just misleads to have the internet talking. They don't feel like they actually feel like they suit the story. And they said Mephisto.

Starting point is 00:09:19 They said Mephisto out loud. I don't know if I believe that Sharon is dead. I feel like she is also primed to be a mislead type of a character. But she did do the thing where like when someone's about to die, they're the coolest person in the episode. You know, like when they kill someone off, they always have like 20 minutes. Like, man, I love this character. So that also might have been a double mislead though, where she does come back. And it's steaks.

Starting point is 00:09:43 Yeah. You got to kill someone for steaks. First, literal. New York. Hangar steaks. Yes. Kill them at the steaks. But yeah, I appreciated the way that they used her in the episode and the contrast that she brings.

Starting point is 00:09:56 But, yeah, the makeups and stuff like that. The effects work and everything is great. And, yeah, I just hope they keep building on this. There was some other thing that they brought up that I thought was kind of neat. But I guess it will have to wait until the next episode. Gang, leave us your thoughts. on agatha episode three and we'll catch you for episode four be well and keep on that straight and narrow witch path all right we're good i remember what i was going to say and since i'm controlling the end screen i'm just going to put it in here anyway and then

Starting point is 00:10:26 then we'll talk more about it next week most likely but i just really like uh them acknowledging the idea that witchcraft is a craft and i think in a universe where your brain sort of defaults to like literal acts of sorcery and beams of light, like, it's nice to acknowledge the fact that, you know, the history of witchcraft and the lore therein, you know, is steeped in the elements, you know, in physical, tangible things provided by the earth that are then being, you know, sort of shaped and morphed into, you know, the instruments of witchcraft that we, you know, know, know, know, throughout the ages. So, yeah, the idea that all these people who have lost their mystical powers, need to go back to the roots of what witchcraft actually is, the holistics and the spirit,

Starting point is 00:11:13 the spirituality, and just like the freedom of all that. I don't know. This is like a really nice thematic element to bring in and in a universe, again, where everything is so heightened and fantastical to bring it back to like the roots of witchcraft. I just thought it was like a nice thing to do that they didn't have to do. And I feel like to acknowledge, you know, the tangible part of that is kind of a neat swing to take, especially because, you know, witchcraft, in like all seriousness. It's still like something of a fringe concept. But anyway, yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:45 Catch you next week. Thank you for watching.

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The Reel Rejects - AGATHA ALL ALONG 1x3 Breakdown & Review!!!

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