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Post by danb on Sept 21, 2024 8:21:41 GMT
Woke up stupidly early so watched the first two episodes of Marvels latest tenuous offshoot tv series. I loved ‘Wandavision’ and theres little doubt that Agatha Harkness was the MVP of that series. So they’ve done the only logical thing and given Agatha her own series.
We join her in the first episode as a just back from suspension cop investigating a dead body in the woods in some crazy scandi-noir pastiche. This goes on for about fifteen minutes until something or someone jars Agatha out of her created world, and the real story & its characters pop up. In short, she needs to form a coven and walk ‘The Witches Road’ to get her powers back…like you do!
I didn’t love the first episode; it was a bit ‘off’, but the second found its stride and by the time the coven start singing and their journey gets going I was sold! Patti Lupone is good value, as are all of the coven in their own ways. Joe Locke’s American accent wavers between convincing & Surrey many times but his character is, I suspect, one of the central mysteries to come and he’s doing good work. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
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Post by marob on Sept 21, 2024 10:10:39 GMT
Only seen the first one so far. The cop show thing outstayed its welcome, but overall I quite liked it. Looking forward to LuPone turning up.
I did like WandaVision (and Kathryn Hahn was wonderfully arch in it) but gave up on the MCU stuff around What If…? When I was 10 I loved reading X-Men comics, trying to piece together the backstory of what might be the world’s most convoluted soap opera. But now, even with all the MCU being available to stream whenever I want, I just CBA with it all anymore. It feels like a chore to keep up.
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Post by danb on Sept 21, 2024 11:07:03 GMT
This seems quite contained so far apart from fleeting mentions of Wanda, so my fingers are crossed.
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Post by alece10 on Sept 21, 2024 12:44:24 GMT
Is this on Disney+ and do you have to like Marvel type things to enjoy it? (As I dont).
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Post by danb on Sept 21, 2024 15:39:22 GMT
It is, but you only need a rudimentary knowledge of Wandavision for it to work.
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Post by blamerobots on Sept 24, 2024 8:06:45 GMT
The last Marvel thing I watched actually was Wandavision, so maybe I'll watch this. The ending of that though was genuinely awful and marked the end of me watching anything Marvel-related so I hope this could be OK.
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Post by amyja89 on Sept 24, 2024 10:37:52 GMT
I'm aching to watch this for the sapphic riot of it all, but I do fear I'll get lost in the MCU maze!
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Post by amyja89 on Oct 10, 2024 10:31:21 GMT
Reporting back to say that I am LOVING this show, despite not understanding some of the wider MCU context!
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Post by danb on Oct 10, 2024 16:34:55 GMT
Great (kind of expected) reveal this week which will hopefully pave the way for a resurrection in the last episode.
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Post by Deal J on Oct 11, 2024 7:56:54 GMT
Generally enjoying this, mainly because of the performances - the trials seem to slow the main story down a lot. The whole thing has been worth it though to see Patti LuPone in a Liza Minnelli wig.
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Post by amyja89 on Oct 11, 2024 10:02:29 GMT
Generally enjoying this, mainly because of the performances - the trials seem to slow the main story down a lot. The whole thing has been worth it though to see Patti LuPone in a Liza Minnelli wig. Definitely echo this. Especially the latest episode with the Ouija board, felt extremely light narratively. When there are so many glorious women performing together, though, I just din't care, added to the fact that I never watched WandaVision so the 'reveal' at the end meant nothing to me.
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