TV Show Review - Agatha All Along (Season 1)

Season: 1
Genre: Fantasy/ Adventure/ Action
Number of episodes: 9
Year: 2024
Starring: Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Patti LuPone, Debra Jo Rupp, Aubrey Plaza

Description: A spell-bound Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) regains freedom thanks to a teen’s (Joe Locke) help. Intrigues by his plea, she embarks on the Withes’ Road trials to reclaim her powers and discover the teen’s motivations.

Review: Agatha Harkness pretended to be the meddling neighbor Agnes in the successful “WadnaVision” (2021), but actually turned out to be the be a very powerful with who was after Wanda’s powers. At the end of the series, however, she is dicovered and Wanda traps her in Westview, New Jersey, without her memory and magical powers. In the spin-off series “Agatha All Along”, after she is released, still without powers, she decides to found her own coven of witches. After all, she needs them to walk The Witches’ Road and regain her powers.

A series about Agatha was not actually in the Marvel master plan. It was due to Agatha’s popularity in “WandaVision” that the series was made at all. In the comics, the witch is only an obscure character, but Marvel wanted her to be featured in “WandaVision” because she plays an important role in the story of Scarlet Witch. And I’m glad Marvel decided to give Agatha her own she, because this is amazing.

Kathryn Hahn, who portrays Agatha, loved getting to the bottom of what lay beneath Agatha's sarcasm and big mouth. And that combination is exactly what you get in “Agatha All Along”: a delightful witch who says what she thinks, but as the season progesses she peels off some layers.

Hahn’s movements and facial expressions are a joy to watch. But once she is no longer alone its delightful to see the actress carry the dramatic edge as well.

The pace is slow. Once The Road has emerged (not me constantly singing that song in my head ever since), it also becomes clear that the coven have several so-called trials to overcome and thus, as a viewer, you have a long journey ahead of you. The acting is fantastic. At first, the women cannot stand each other, but still have to work together. In the process they help each other see where their personal strengths lie.

You get sucked into the coven as if you were part of it yourself and I’m so happy this series focuses on female empowerment.

“Agatha All Along” was very well-received and each episode gets high ratings, Not below a 7.3. But my favorite episode, and I’m in the majority here, was episode 7: Death’s Hand in Mine. That episode was perfection.

The end of the series hints to a second season, which I wouldn’t be mad about. But “Agatha All Along” is a fantastic series I’m glad Marvel decided to make.