The Reel Rejects - BEST EPISODE YET!! AGATHA ALL ALONG 1x07 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:32 Let's cast a spell, and now you're mine. All righty, gang. That, dare I say, was a banger. Gee. Take it away. What did you think? I was very much engrossed in it. and I'll say this

Starting point is 00:01:58 anyone who's been watching us for years knows we're always making jokes and sometimes that can be misinterpreted for making fun of show instead of having fun with show and usually when we're having a good time with the show we're just making jokes with the show so it's how we just watch things

Starting point is 00:02:15 part of Who Real Regix is for the longest time like Penguin but yeah Penguin is a great show that we're loving right now we're always making jokes and what was so cool about this structure here is that the way the narrative device is done, it forces

Starting point is 00:02:31 you to kind of just pay close attention or else you're going to miss some important detail because of how it thrusts you into a very unique POV of Lillia. Because when you're in her POV of someone who is in and out of different time

Starting point is 00:02:47 frames, you start to pick up the puzzle pieces along with her. So I liked how as an audience member you become part of like the investigation with her. You're like playing detective along with her so you are kind of forced to like you relegate down to like so we're all like sort of like okay all right

Starting point is 00:03:03 trying to like pick up on it as well and then feeling rewarded when you do guess things before they reveal them in a good way not in like a this shit's predictable because it wasn't predictable it was like you would guess it right before they're about to say it. Yeah you know so I wouldn't say it's a predictable thing it's

Starting point is 00:03:19 it's like that feeling of reward of your oh I get it like reading a mystery novel like when you figured out the page before and you're like yeah like oh my god it's not like oh this is yeah yeah so i thought i thought it was brilliant and you guys might not know exactly what i'm referencing and when i keep saying the mike flanagan episode so there's like this was some considered one of the best plot twist ever in house of house of um hunting of hill house my bad yeah honey of hill house uh episode four i believe episode four or five the rose episode sure you've seen that right boy i love that

Starting point is 00:03:49 true um well i don't remember which episode you kind of just it's the big reveal episode of what is really going on with this rose character i'll just say that if you haven't seen it's absolutely genius and it's a i heard there's a big twist before i watch it did not predict it at all and i don't know anyone else who has it's like this brilliant reveal and then his follow-up show haunting a bligh manner has a similar thing where with um a character to go in and out through time and you're putting together these different pieces and stuff and it's like totally very similar to that it's not aping it it's just very reminiscent of that that kind of episode you know what episode that is you Yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:24 So it's a very specific type of thing that you don't see done a lot. And I love it for in terms of just writing because it shows that this writing team had to map out a season. It wasn't just like, well, we'll see what happens next. Like they had to map out a season. They had to map out specific lines for her. It's like it had me going, when did they figure out this episode for Lilia? And then they had to go back in place little nuggets so that way they can have the giant reveal, the tariff card, like you're literally

Starting point is 00:04:55 on the tariff card journey reveal throughout this whole episode with her. So I think it's just a very sort of meta-layered execution of writing. I was very much impressed by. I thought it was a very impressive episode. It was my favorite one by far.

Starting point is 00:05:11 Yeah, no, I would agree. Koi. I'm sorry, Agatha all along. I wasn't aware of your game. This was, this was, this was. Agatha did cook. Though Agatha herself was She did cook this week. This was the show, dare I say I want it all along.

Starting point is 00:05:31 This was truly what I have been hoping for the investment of for me with characters. I personally like coy struggles with art when I can't find my way into the eye line. Like when I'm watching something and it's just entertaining, I can enjoy it, but I don't get invested. Like there's always like, you know, watching it through. opaque glass versus transparent glass versus being on the stage. Like there's always layers removing me and when I when I can like feel with a character it takes it above

Starting point is 00:06:00 just entertainment and I feel and I identify with and I connect and that's what I usually get out of these shows because I am a comic book reader from that I learn to read with comic books so I think that a lot of people get mad that I sometimes judge things either not harshly enough or too harshly because I'm known

Starting point is 00:06:16 as the guy that like loves this stuff and I love it because it literally taught me what I consider my moral Who I am, the things that make me, me are because of comic books. The stakes couldn't be higher. I think my biggest fear in life is losing my mind. I really honestly, like, I value intelligence, I value intellect, I value reading, I value communication, I value what it is to be human, to me is words.

Starting point is 00:06:43 My favorite thing in language is word, like the concept of word that we've developed something that we can pass on, that we can have stories, that you can pick up a book and everything you've ever wanted to know. someone has already learned it can convey to you like the idea of what we've created with thought and speech is everything to me so now this show was like by the way glad you stayed here because it gave me an eye line and now i cannot wait to watch it again like i'm going to go back because like i'm so afraid of losing my mind i'm so afraid of the inevitable dementia or Alzheimer's or the number of things that happen as we age i'm so afraid of slipping through reality i i get

Starting point is 00:07:19 sensory overload where I don't know if I'm real and it scares me like I have moments of total disassociation at times when I'm overstimulated and this episode made me feel this episode made me connect to that this episode gave me so much that I was looking for while feeling like that incredible scarlet witch run on the road while feeling like it's blending IP in a dope way while feeling like it's paying off on what it's set out to do in a way that is deserving of these characters and these writers and these actresses that I honestly hadn't connected to yet I loved episode four but it was

Starting point is 00:07:54 like one two and three I was trying and then four I was like oh I'm here and it's harder when you feel that thing and then you lose it again but this explained to me a lot of the why and it gave me a character to connect to and it gave me so much like I'm so happy right now and I and I really I really just want to

Starting point is 00:08:11 rewatch the show with these new eyes and delete all my reviews that's not going to happen but like it really gives me what I was looking for yeah like it honestly this is what I was looking for so I'm just overjoyed I'm this was so special for me I got to just really quickly add on to what you were saying because in terms of the comic side of it this episode

Starting point is 00:08:28 and this show in particular has really set itself aside even if you love the show in total from beginning to end there's been a lot of people have been saying but it doesn't really feel like a Marvel show you know it doesn't really feel like whatever I don't know what that really means that could be a good thing but there are people

Starting point is 00:08:44 who have been saying yeah whether sets they built it but people have been saying that and it's like oh it feels more yeah it's like a witch show and I really like how it's really embraced

Starting point is 00:08:56 it being a witch show however when you introduce this character of death and have that big reveal you're also getting that comic book payoff in that regard so I like how this show was able to really do its own thing

Starting point is 00:09:10 with a structure that felt akin to something out of Loki season two meets that Mike Flanagan shit I was talking about whilst still also giving you, oh, here's your big comic book moment with the character of death. Yeah. It felt like such a payoff. John, I monologued. I apologize.

Starting point is 00:09:25 I know you've loved this show. I want to know if it elevated or what was your experience. It's the one he didn't. You know, I was on board until this one. I'm actually kind of bland and confusing. I've seen Memento already. Yeah. No, I love this episode. I was overjoyed as well. I feel like

Starting point is 00:09:43 everything you guys have brought up is beautifully said. And I mean, yeah, this... We haven't talked about performances. Well, and as a... Categories we did not touch us. No, no, for sure. For sure.

Starting point is 00:09:54 To make sure you have something. No, absolutely. And that is on my mind. Connect to your own trauma. This does. Yeah. Well, I mean, this episode in multiple ways, like, this was really fun to watch because this was clearly firing on all possible cylinders.

Starting point is 00:10:09 This was reaching, like, the very high potential for what just this show could possibly be. And yeah, it delivered me something that was like, quite again supernatural witchy but also yeah that's like a little bit sci-fi and a little bit sort of timey-wimey and almost like that bookcase thing i was like interstellar like there's there's a mishmash of cosmic supernatural loveliness that i think they encapsulated here that is also like really well distilled through the motif of taro and the idea that you know that debate of like it's a scam it's just subjective this is all like kind of what you want to make out of it versus like, no, if you really focus, you might be able to, and especially in the fantastical

Starting point is 00:10:51 context of this, you know, if you focus in and attenuate, you can divine what the actual messages and what the actual spiritual, you know, slipstream is and, you know, follow that. And I thought as, and yeah, as this show has gone on, with some exceptions, they have done a fun job of giving certain episodes, you know, as an opportunity to spotlight a particular performer, particular actor, and I feel like some people have benefited greatly from that. I feel bad for Allie On, because I feel like her character benefited the least

Starting point is 00:11:24 from that kind of treatment, but here, Patty Lepone, just like, as an opportunity, like, I never thought I would be sitting in front of a Marvel show that is just like a full episode where Patty Lepone just gets to take the reins and be center stage and, you know, shine

Starting point is 00:11:40 the world-class talent that she is and has been for so long to, you know, like, from the height of the pop culture obelisk. Tens and millions of eyeballs because of. Yeah. And it's just, you know, this is a show that seems like, yeah, it has benefited

Starting point is 00:11:56 from an amount of foresight. When we watched Loki season two recently, it seemed very gleamingly clear that like when they have a plan for these shows ahead of time and barring any sort of... This is the part where you don't really

Starting point is 00:12:14 have to look at us. You can just listen. But, you know, I feel like they're barring any sort of intervention from, like, huge world circumstances or whatever. You know, some shows seem like they're more thought out than others. And I didn't know exactly what to expect coming into this show. But yeah, looking at Loki season two, we were sitting there going, man, look what you can achieve when you have a plan. And I'm sure they updated things and had rewrites. But like, look what happens when you come up with a plan, flesh that plan out, and then shoot that plan. It's all part of the plan.

Starting point is 00:12:47 And this felt like part of the plan. And certainly, yeah, like, I feel like the previous episode did suffer from being slight. And so, like, that feels a little, you know, outside of her anomalous to the plan. But, like, this, I didn't know what to expect from Agatha all along going in. I was like, is this going to be a fun side quest? Is this going to be essential or not? And from here, I'm like, this is kind of neat because, like, yeah, Billy, I'm sure will be interconnected. And I'm sure death is a character.

Starting point is 00:13:13 We're going to see Agatha. I'm sure at least we will see again but like this seems like it's occupying its whole own neat little lane where I feel like you know people are actually kind of flocking to the show and checking it out and it's been kind of event TV to some degree each week and this episode was cool

Starting point is 00:13:29 because it's like yeah obviously the Wiccan reveal is going to be a big thing for the future but like also just this show has managed to be something unique and there's clearly a lot of really lovely thought and craft and effort put into to it and like watching this episode kind of made me misty-eyed at points because too it was the

Starting point is 00:13:49 culmination of seeing like my gripe about the episode last week was sort of like I know you can do this well because I've seen you do a bunch of other stuff well so I'm just bummed we can get that opportunity whereas here I was like this is you're getting to shine all the stuff that you do so well as a show and on top of that I'm also just kind of emotionally affected by the actual character journey of yeah lilia doubting herself and you know being sort of excelling in certain you know facets of the trade the craft and feeling very shaky on others and yeah her like little journey of you know completeness and self-actualization and bringing together all the disparate elements of her journey in these weird little flashes and interludes and and moments where she's transported out

Starting point is 00:14:32 of time like all that culminated into something that was both really neat from a high concept you know pulp angle but also like really touching from just like oh wow like and it's all in the performance like again patty lapone is like a world-class performer and and yeah just like I felt kind of misty-eyed as she was putting it all together and clarity was dawning upon her and and yeah she was able to like truly shine and to really again in function of the plot save everyone's asses but also you know really go out on such a beautiful high note and that last moment of peace for the character as she falls into the swords with the tower the flip of the tower and like there's so many great little details like if you know any little i'm not a terrorist expert but i know little

Starting point is 00:15:16 things and they've done a great job of elacing that throughout the show like this is just so well constructed for what it is in terms of again the the you know the stuff that they're drawing from that's actually part of our world and i like when comics to bring in like you know death exists throughout so much folklore and so much history and so do you know these tenets of which but they're all adapted here for Marvel and I feel like yeah this is I'm excited like you said to go back and rewatch it and to see all the little clues and the little mysteries and see yeah how a second watch of the show goes down and I was already feeling like oh yeah I could pull this out every Halloween it's pretty I'm enjoying it it's a lot of fun but yeah at this point I'm really excited to see whatever culminates in the finale and also was just yeah super impacted by this episode for sure you thought we monologued Ladies and gentlemen, I'm excited to shout out today's sponsor because it is an app that I have been using since before we partnered with them, which just makes my job easy. And I just get to share with you something I really do love. And that is the Acorns app.

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Starting point is 00:18:25 In the beginning, there was witches and then, man. You got to talk about, like, what it means to be alive with, like, the essence of human experience and this. I'm going to take credit slash blame for this journey. We all went on together, introvertedly and extrovertedly. Sure. Introspectively and extrospectively. No, no, I agree with what you're going to say. I was actually going to comment on your comments.

Starting point is 00:18:47 I really like that it is something that opens up doors that you can choose how much to see. Something you said about the taro. Oh, the intuition. in the beginning of your journey through the mental experience of it, I really like that when you tarot, it is usually stuff that you've intuited yourself, that you've blocked. And I like that the episode was all about stuff that she wasn't letting herself see,

Starting point is 00:19:11 but that unraveled like when you were playing a deck of tarot. Yeah, I like that the actual experience of the show, Greg pointed out that it was the format, but I like that even the way I think of taro feels like you're unlocking stuff that you yourself know about you, but you need to see a card for it to, unlock so I really enjoyed that she got to have that because the whole time I've been like I hear this pat-in-lapone is amazing yeah and I feel like she was getting short change and that was a purpose behind it

Starting point is 00:19:35 and we got to discover it with her in a way that felt like thinking no that's the brilliance I think of the opening shot I feel like it's very intentionally making you because that shot up from get out is so famous that there's nothing else really that you'll probably think of right and then even when she's originally falling from the profile shot you can't see what she's falling into doesn't even really look like she's in a room it looks like just a black void so it does seem like you are in what i love about the setup of that is that it's yeah showing you physically where she's going to land what her ultimate and part of her journey will be however it is also visually as a director throwing you into her mindset having you subconsciously think you're going into her

Starting point is 00:20:15 subconscious yeah yeah yeah yeah i think it's a really smart like visual cue because that is what it's doing it's it's both going physically and mentally with our character, Lilia. And the narrative allows for that because it's been doing things that are references to other things. So like the door, like the, you mentioned another seller,

Starting point is 00:20:31 I do like that the show from episode two or what, actually from episode one with your detective slash mayor of Easttown. It's always been acknowledging other stuff and shortcutting to that emotional connection in this case of subconscious. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:42 And I also like too that they didn't just completely drop the whole William Billy thing because they would, with him questioning like, who am I really? I like how there is still a question of identity for this guy who has now just inherited a body

Starting point is 00:20:55 and is also having like family like he has parents I have a mom I have a mom I have parents but then I'm also the child of Scarlet Witch like there's all these like complications and I like that I like that didn't drop the complexity of that and the Kevin Faggy yes no that was that was gonna be one two even just a little thing

Starting point is 00:21:12 I like that they were like someone's gonna ask but comics well and I guess the last just little stray thing that because you made me think of like yeah Patty Lopone for so much of this has just been being like an all star support, you know, like being, making sure to be just enough to punctuate, but not enough to, like, steal every scene or something like that. But here I also really loved the her and Jen back and forth. Yeah. The, like, you know, accepting, embracing of the coven for both of them. And the coven as being something less immediately now these people even and just, like, all

Starting point is 00:21:44 of us who donned this mantle of witchcraft and, you know, divining the elements and the, you know, all that stuff so cool i got out yep oh guys i got it all along did you think of this episode leave us your thoughts down below is your favorite of the season so far what do you want from the finale let's hear it and we'll catch you next week keep on the road people you bonky bill

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The Reel Rejects - BEST EPISODE YET!! AGATHA ALL ALONG 1x07 Breakdown & Review!!!

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