I liked Agatha All Along, even though I'm pretty sure it "objectively" wasn't as good as WandaVision, which Agatha All Along is a spinoff of.
One thing that really struck me was that the quality of Aubrey Plaza's acting seemed better than anything else I've ever seen her in. I ❤️ Aubrey Plaza, but in general it's not particularly her acting that sells, it's her persona.
I also liked that we finally got to see what happened to Wanda's kids after the dissolution of Wandaville. I'd been wondering when we were going to find that out ever since WandaVision ended. I had no idea it was revealed in this miniseries.
The worst thing about the miniseries, in my opinion, was that the witch's road—the parts of it that weren't challenges inside buildings—looked so obviously like a set that it took me right out of the show.
The only other particularly bad thing about it was that they made it harder and harder to really like the main character as they revealed more about her. But I guess we're supposed to be sold on the fact that, in the end, she felt too guilty to face her son due to her past, at least.
Oh, and actually, one of the bad things that was revealed about her just seemed like a cheap plot twist, as it didn't really resonate with the show's history up to that point. She had seemed to so earnestly want to try the witch's road and to get all of the other witches onboard (beyond any reasonable consideration that it was all just a ruse), and then we find out that she never really believed in the witch's road and had just wanted to steal all their power and kill them. She had even confided in one of them earlier that she can only steal a witch's power if they unleash it on her, which is especially inconsistent with that turn of events. I don't mind giving away this particular spoiler, as I feel that the writers committed an intellectual crime against the viewer on this point.
One other thing worth noting was that the show was a bit macabre, as (spoiler:) nearly all of the protagonists died eventually.
There's a pretty amazing and unexpected twist at the end that I thought was good, that I won't reveal here.
The show ended in a way that seemed to suggest there may be a future season, but we're not really told one way or the other about whether there will be. I read somewhere that the fact that Agatha All Along was submitted for awards as Best Comedy Series rather than Best Miniseries or whatever may indicate that they're planning future seasons.
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