Agatha All Along

Stream on Disney+

Episode: 9 Episodes (42 - 44 minutes each)

Rated TV-14

Agatha Harkness, the villain from WandaVision, must escape the mental prison Wanda left her in and reclaim her powers. To do this she must accomplish the task without the powerful Darkhold (which was destroyed in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness) and put together a Coven to tackle the trials of the Witch’s Road. Once the Witch’s Road trials are completed each living member of the coven gets one wish granted.

Before watching this show it would be beneficial to Watch WandaVision and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.

Themes:

Witchcraft, alternative realities, cop shows, power, revenge, magic, The Witch’s Road, a coven of witches, sisterhood, LGBTQ, psychics, divination, trials, evil, spell books, gifts, potions, accidents, amnesia, conspiracy theories, music, death, getting what you want, created reality, survival, gardening, murder, ghosts, children, brothers, mothers and sons, and lies.

Language:

Name-calling throughout.

Religious Exclamations - 20 A*s - 2 B*tch - 3 D*mn - 3 Hell - 2. Sh*t - 3

The word “efing” is used once.

Stuff to be aware of:

Gore - There is a dead body that starts an investigation. There is a close-up of a dead woman’s hand, but not many details are shown. A woman grabs the sharp end of a knife causing her hand to bleed. A boy’s hand is cut and his blood is dropped into a potion.

A dead woman is seen and a character closes her eyes. In episode four a coupl ofe different characters receive burns on their shoulders.

Several characters die or disappear during the course of the show.

Sexual - There is a naked woman, at first she is blurry and her private parts are all covered. Eventually, the sides of her breasts are shown, but her nipples and the majority of her breasts are covered by her hair. When she walks away from the camera her butt is clearly shown for a few seconds.

One female character flirts with another female character and licks blood off her hand. A boy, who wears black nail polish, receives a call from another boy. The name of the caller on his cell phone is “boyf.”

In episode four there are some cleavage-revealing clothes worn. Two female characters seem to flirt and lightly touch each other. One woman mentions that she loved another woman. They later share a hug that almost turns into a kiss.

In episode six two boys kiss and one thinks about telling the other boy that he loves him. The other boy tells him, “I love you too” and they kiss again. One tells the other that he is “adorably trusting.” One character is named, “Bohner.” It is pronounced “boner,” but I am not sure if this is meant to be a sexual reference or not. There is a male character that in one episode is dressed like the female character Maleficant. Two women share a prolonged kiss in episode eight.

The following sexual things are mentioned: pelvic floor, kegel, a jade egg and where to find it, extra nipples, and puns with the word queer.

Scary - There is a scene that takes place in a morgue with a dead body and some jump scares.

There are robed figures that show up in episode two. Their faces are dark and creepy, hard for me to explain what they look like. There is a mist that creeps into a house followed by whispers. The robbed figures enter the house in scary ways. One of these villains unnaturally crawls downstairs, with its head bent at an inhuman angle. These characters show up again in later episodes.

Episode three has some creepy illusions of character’s fears. In episode four a body climbs out of the ground in a very unnatural way and it contorts in scary ways. In episode four there is a demonic-looking monster that is referred to as a curse. It is a hideous-looking beast that screeches and burns a character.

In episode five the creepy robbed figures (Salem Seven) return and move around unnaturally. A character becomes possessed and moves in very unnatural ways and attacks the other characters. She looks like a zombie. There is also a human-looking ghost in this episode. One character looks like a skeleton in episode seven.

In episode eight there is a woman who during flashes of light her face looks like a skull. Later she only has a skull for a face.

Violence - A knife is pushed into a woman’s neck which draws blood, but she is not killed. In episode four characters get thrown around by an unseen force. In episode five a character gets her life force sucked out causing her to die and shrivel up like a corpse. In episode six some characters do not return after being sucked into black-looking tar in a marsh.

In episode seven several sinister looking being are impaled but swords. In episode eight a woman gets cut up by glass and vines. There is blood. In episode nine a child dies, but just while sleeping.

Other - A few characters drink beer. In episode four, characters seize as if they are burning. The characters mention praying to the Divine Mother instead of God when He is mentioned. Characters play a Ouija board and read tarot cards. In episode nine a woman gives birth to a baby in the wilderness, but it isn’t graphic, but there is some blood.

Overall:

This show is very good, but the partial nudity and sexual jokes are unneeded (as they always are). With the success of Deadpool and Wolverine, I fear the MCU is going to start putting in more adult jokes and humor sadly.

On a positive note, you can tell the writers have a fun time playing with TV shows again and bringing Agatha back to the MCU. They have also done a good job bringing in obscure comic book characters to join Agatha’s coven from the comics who are tied to Wanda (Scarlet Witch). The writers do an amazing job taking comic books stories, places, events, and ideas and weaving them into something new for this show. There are some very good twists and turns in the plot that while not true to the comics are even better, in my opinion. I look forward to see what is coming next.

This show is not meant for children, and it leans heavily into the evil (Satanic) side of witchcraft. The themes, the sexual nature of much of it, and brief nudity probably will keep me from watching this one again. There is a lot of sexual tension, flirting, and kissing between two females. The show is very “queer.”

Neat Easter Egg (slight spoiler) - Mephisto is name-dropped, guess he is coming to the MCU after all.