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Agatha All Along rushed its journey down the ‘Witches’ Road’
Agatha All Along’s season 1 finale still managed to knock it out of the park in spite of some uneven storytelling.
Because Agatha herself was already framed as a unique threat to magic users, it was difficult to suss out what kinds of dangers were lying in wait for the coven as she and the teen recruited fortune teller Lilia Calderu(Patti LuPone), potions master Jennifer Kale(Sasheer Zamata), protection witch Alice Wu-Gulliver(Ali Ahn), and ordinary Jersey woman Sharon Davis (Debra Jo Rupp) to their ranks. The Road, with all of its hand-painted leaves and trees that transformed the set into an otherworldly forest, hammered home how Agatha All Along ’s creative team was smartly using its lean budget to create magic that felt more real than its predecessor’s. And the Road’s horror movie-inspired trials to test witches’ skills gave the show a narrative structure that was similar to but distinct enough from WandaVision ’s to make it seem like Agatha All Along truly was the second chapter in a trilogy of stories rather than just a spinoff.
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