The Reel Rejects - AGATHA ALL ALONG 1x4 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:28 This week's videos are sponsored by price picks, the easy-to-use fantasy sports betting app. More on them in just a bit. Either way, let's watch Agatha. So much love. Let's get into episode four. Well, that was episode four of Agatha all along. We're going to dive right on into it.

Starting point is 00:01:49 First off, John, what did you think? I am increasingly enjoying this. This is lovely. I like it very. very much all the oscillation of visual and tonal styles is a delight. And in this episode in particular, I remember we were quite struck the first time The Witch's Road, you know, him incantation song. I'm trying to figure out who people in the credits are. Yeah, because I think that was her mom now that I've seen.

Starting point is 00:02:12 Yeah, it was her mom. And I think that was the younger version of who is the older lady here? Oh, Patty Lepone. Patty Plone, yeah. Yeah, it's obviously Lisa Simpson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Aubrey Plaza. It I am.

Starting point is 00:02:26 So weird that fox is. Anyway. Oh, and it's them. They do tons of music for Disney. Anyway, yes, I really liked the way that this episode in particular honed in on the notion that music is like a shared ritual and spiritual experience of sorts and can speak in ways that like simple verbiage cannot. And, you know, song as incantation and as like bonding is also just a. pretty witchy thing to do so uh yeah i thought that was really cool just as a music fan and a fan of witch lore like i thought that was really sweet uh and then having the you know late 60s early 70s

Starting point is 00:03:04 vibes and you know camera choices and stuff like that was really fun like i i i'm just enthralled with the game of the show thus far and uh yeah like you know it's not because of the length of the episodes it's not like able to get like mad deep but i feel like i have some attachment to everybody here and I'm really enjoying the sort of unfurling mystery now that we have Aubrey Plaza back of just what's going on between her and Agatha and like the way they play off each other is terrific. The overall chemistry between everyone is great. The little Agatha and teen relationship that is blossoming slowly is nice. Like yeah it's their game to lose for me at this point because I'm really digging it. Greg?

Starting point is 00:03:48 Yeah, Coy. Everything that John said first, first off first I want to be said that everything John said I also would also agree with what John said so add that to my commentary as part of Greg's commentary Talk twice as long because you already had half

Starting point is 00:04:06 John's coverage That's what I'm talking about baby In the edit you'll see that He just talked dubbed over it This is actually just John talking Very well spoken By taking his words Oscillates

Starting point is 00:04:16 Great use of oscillates And last time when I forgot to bring up Oh Sure I think it is a truly wonderful development that they touched on that idea of like analog, like magic as the craft of and the physical, like, you know, obviously we're in a fantasy realm, so you think like,

Starting point is 00:04:37 oh, beams and powers and Harry Potter, you know, but I feel like the true, you know, roots of all of this are built on, yeah, holistics and metaphysics and stuff like that. And things that are very tangible and things that you can kind of just do by hand with what Earth has provided you. And so in a universe where everything is very, you know, mystical and magical and, you know, the supernatural

Starting point is 00:05:00 is real, I think, as a theme. And it carries through this episode, too. It's just like a really terrific. I like that. And the ant-term analog, especially, for this use. Which is a great way to set up Dr. Doom. Yeah. Amifisto. Analog magic. No, I mean, this is... I do think on the long

Starting point is 00:05:14 game, this is setting up a lot of things that will be leading to Doom, including even maybe Aubrey Plaza playing Cynthia Von Doom. Yeah, that's a good point. I thought this was a fantastic episode. I think each episode is... Two is my least favorite of the episodes. But out of that, I would put this...

Starting point is 00:05:31 I was like, okay, the third was my favorite. I would say this one's my favorite of them all. So it is cool to watch it, like, gradually just get better each time. And I feel like there's something a bit... Like, okay, if you look at the Wanda Vision comparison when they went into the sitcoms, their personalities changed when they went into each one of those sitcoms. They were really adjusting their purse, like the way they all acted to whatever the sitcom was. They don't do that here.

Starting point is 00:05:59 They keep their personalities the same, but they really commit to the genre. So it is like plopping the characters that were following into another genre without changing who they are. And they allow their evolution to continue just within a different genre, which I actually find really intriguing and not a repetitive motif from the previous show that this is a spinoff of. So I really like the usage of that. Yeah, they didn't speak in like 70s slang, but the energy of the 70s music drama translated. It's a good compliment to what came before

Starting point is 00:06:30 without being a direct, like, oh, we have to do film styles. Which is the definition of a spinoff. Yeah, and it's not like even funny in the genre. It was like, Wadna Vision kind of aimed to be a little bit funny about the genre that it was doing, and this is not even funny in that sense.

Starting point is 00:06:46 And so I really, really am enjoying that a lot. And I find that, so it actually makes me like episode one a little bit more, the episode you're really against, because episode one feels like a direct, like, I remember saying to John when we were watching it that if this wasn't Agatha all along, I would think this is just a cliche TV show of this type of genre where I wouldn't say that for what happened in the last episode and I wouldn't say that for this one. It feels like it's honoring those genres that it's being, like the 70s demonic horror, which is something that I know a lot of more indie filmmakers like to play on. nowadays and i think they did a really good job here for the disney plus medium and watching how this show like what i love about the path the last thing i'll say is what i love about the path that they're doing is that it's not just like a big macguffin path it's not just a bunch of fetch quests or like solve some stupid riddle it's it's all about confrontation from within first true trials yeah and like they they make direct analogies or metaphors of like oh yeah to face

Starting point is 00:07:48 the curse you got to face to overcome the curse you got to face yourself and it's like this one was dealing with generational trauma this time you know and so I really love that and there was something really beautiful about the motherly protective element of of creating that song

Starting point is 00:08:04 I actually felt quite a lot for that when they were playing I really felt that a lot like the re contextualization of the song because I noticed one of those moments it gets crapped on a lot for some reason even though I really liked it an episode too who gets crapped on a lot I loved that choice People will give crap on it for some reason, but I liked it.

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Starting point is 00:10:24 Miss Marvel, because it felt out of nowhere, and it didn't feel like it furthered things. It felt like gimmick, and this does not feel like a gimmick. It feels like it's actually like filled with heart and purpose. For me, I did not like the first episode. I've made it pretty clear. I actually, if I, I usually give a show three episodes, and the first

Starting point is 00:10:40 episode, I didn't like to the point where I was like, I don't know if this show's going to be for me. I'm really happy that I think it's for a lot of people because I could see that it would be like for the crowd that loves musicals and the crowd that like I like for example I was in Rocky Horror for four years but I don't like stuff other than Rocky Horror in that kind of tone

Starting point is 00:10:56 I just don't get it like it doesn't translate to me so the first episode I was like oh the line between Campy and corny for me is very fine and so it was a struggle for me to really connect to it and then I was worried that the show would feel like that as a gimmick and it did the opposite it actually like you said made the episode one better for you. It doesn't, I still don't love episode one because I feel like it's still

Starting point is 00:11:17 not a choice I would have made. I don't quite think it fits, but it retroactively makes me appreciate the swing a little more and it makes me appreciate what they did later more, which is these last two episodes because episode two is just like, you know, gather your team and like kind of your Dungeons and Dragon Squad and that was needed, but now that we're into the story and the heart of it, I am liking these characters more. I do feel like where you have a connection. And this episode in particular really established that you can play kind of like what you were saying with genre keep the characters true

Starting point is 00:11:45 but I really like that it never felt inauthentic to the characters to Agatha or to the arc we're on like the this felt like the biopic with Val Kilmer playing the Jim Orson yeah this felt like you know

Starting point is 00:12:00 Laurel Canyon this felt like that era music in time but it also was still a story about generational trauma and about healing through music and my favorite ever Chuck Pollanick book one of my favorite authors is about a culling song it's this book called Lullaby

Starting point is 00:12:14 and it's this really haunting concept of every time someone reads this, do you know Lullaby? There's a poem in this children's book and it accidentally gets printed and it was a song that these tribes would read to their dying warriors and so it accidentally gets printed in a children's book and parents are

Starting point is 00:12:31 killing their kids because they're reading them this poem and sudden infant death syndrome is sweeping the nation and babies are dying dark book and ever since I read that I was like the power of words which is my obsession is so incredible and the power of song is adding emotion to words and connecting and all those things

Starting point is 00:12:46 and so my biggest association of that is this killing babies thing and this was this really beautiful inversion of that is songs connect us in so many ways like going to a concert feels like church going to listen to the radio millions of people around the world are sharing one experience

Starting point is 00:13:01 sharing music with each other like to me and John before almost every single video and the patrons know we just talk about music it's a connection in an emotional way and I really like that they use that here as a generational thing, as an emotional thing, as a protecting spell, like all of that really connected. So, officially, as of episode four, I like this show.

Starting point is 00:13:21 And I was still, like, three was like good, but I was like, I'm still fitting fit because I just had such a bad time with what to do. Four was so good that I'm like, okay, I'm in. Okay. And I like, I like, too, that you get. I'm to be honest, people think I like everything. I did not like the first girl.

Starting point is 00:13:33 I was like, do I do the show? Like, I don't want people to think because that denigrates the things I really like. I did not like the point. I was like, do I come? cover so the four is like okay i'm excited for five not because marvel studios logo i'm excited five because episode four's entire experience gets me excited yeah and even though when alice walks away you can obviously you know the house is going to show back up in front of her like i like that

Starting point is 00:13:55 the road itself to your point feels like it is orchestrating all this by peering into the characters rather than just coming up with stuff for them to do yeah so like the real gimmicks the road the place even though it's changing form feels like a character. And also, I thought that demon was pretty sweet. Like, that demon looked icky and gross and really, like, formidable just in terms of the design alone. Yeah. Again, though, that's my thing, is it'll get a lot of credit.

Starting point is 00:14:24 Will it play in China? That's his thing. If it's not put it to China. Why are we even watching? If it's, we're going to move there one day. This is one of this country is headed. I'm learning the language now. Because that is inevitable.

Starting point is 00:14:39 Is this coverage applicable? Like, because it's on Disney plus, it's like, oh, impressive, but if it was not, if it was an index,

Starting point is 00:14:50 it looks like a demon I've seen before. Like Hulu had with each in the other Aubrey Plaza's a demon show. And it's those little things that I'm like, ah, just kind of pushed past a little more than just be here,

Starting point is 00:15:00 being higher than usually what Disney does. It's truly a disturbing demon, not just pretty disturbing for Disney. Yeah. The Disney asterix is very strong on spooky. But hey, we almost got a lesbian kiss, and we almost got a scary demon, and we all got it.

Starting point is 00:15:16 So we're getting there to be coy about it. If you're sitting there, objecting to the queerness of the witch series, maybe you should go and maybe expose yourself to any other witch thing ever. The craft, highly recommend it. I felt like multivor some madness with Sam Ramey's touch. I just to put it out there,

Starting point is 00:15:35 I feel like that really would push like violent imagery like surprisingly honestly sure sure so yeah I really like this one I cannot wait to see how the Aubrey Plaza just because I love watching Aubrey Plaza and they made the character so captivating anytime you cut to Aubrey Plaza or even there's a frame with her

Starting point is 00:15:51 in the backer I'm like well she's devouring the scenery in the best way my god I love her so cannot wait for the next episode please in that notification bell so you know when we drop the next episode spoiler alert this time next week but also leave a comment below let us know which of the episode is your favorite you're enjoying this journey. Leave a like. Do all the things. We'll see you next week. Reject Nation.

Starting point is 00:16:10 Much love. Lex. Lex. Lex. Man. Lexus. Wow. Lexi. If there's anyone who I think we could travel down the witch's road with. Let's go, Lex. The top of my head, I was like, Lex. You know why? Because there was one of two names left a shout out in this shout out. And I saw yours first. You're the witchiest. That's how fate works around here.

Starting point is 00:16:37 process of elimination. And due to that, you are now going to travel the practical effect world of Agatha all along with us. You lose a witch. They just lost Kitty from that 70s show. And now you are going to be the replacement witch. Boom. Get in there. Insane. Works some magic. What do you think Lex's specialty is? You got three options, John. Take it away. Gary Busey style. I got three options. Three power sets. Gary Busey style. Take it away, John. She can conjure a meatball sub anywhere she is. That comes in handy. People get hungry on the road.

Starting point is 00:17:13 Absolutely. Another power is when Lex appears in point break, she's the most grounded performer. Underrated. Somehow, despite all odds. I can see Catherine Bigg alone knows the one gets the right actor, knows how to get them to be good. And Lex also, one of her powers, is conjuring up tall, blonde, sun. named Jake. Oh, yeah, you need to have a Jake on your, on your side.

Starting point is 00:17:42 As much as this is the queerest show of Marvel ever made, you got to have one guy in there. Definitely token guy. They want to be able to, you know, take out some experimental lust on or punish. Oh, sure. You know. Or both. You could see, oh, my God, that sounds like a great time.

Starting point is 00:18:00 You call that power number four. That's power number four. Lusty punishments. Lux, you are, you are just a great addition to the cast. of Agatha all along. Can't wait. Can't wait to see what you bring. And I hope the internet's kind to you.

Starting point is 00:18:11 Of course. As they always will be. Lord be with you.

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The Reel Rejects - AGATHA ALL ALONG 1x4 Breakdown & Review

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