‘Agatha All Along’: Marvel Should Be Ashamed for Wasting All This Talent
With films such as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals and The Marvels, and TV series like Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Echo, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has spent much of its post-Avengers: Endgame phases trying to respond to criticism that it’s not inclusive.
Agatha All Along furthers that mission via a Hocus Pocus-y story featuring two lesbians and one gay male character on a predominantly all-female adventure. Alas, any points won for representation don’t overshadow the ho-humness of this small-screen affair—a pleasant trifle that’s nothing more than a franchise footnote.
Agatha All Along, which premieres Sept. 18 on Disney+, is a follow-up to 2021’s WandaVision, and though it eventually proves somewhat disconnected from the MCU’s serialized narrative, it begins where its predecessor left off.