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AGATHA ALL ALONG Ep. 1.1 and 1.2

"Occult Marvel Series"

Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)
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What You Need To Know:

AGATHA ALL ALONG is the latest series on a long list of Marvel mini-series streaming on Disney+. In the first two episodes, viewers meet spell-bound Agatha Harkness, who lives in a false reality as a detective. However, with the help of a teen boy, the spell is broken, and she remembers she no longer possesses the Darkhold, which gives her extreme powers. Harkness assembles a ragtag group of local witches to regain all she lost to open a gate to the Witches’ Road. But not all want the Darkhold and its power to fall into Harkness’ hands again.

AGATHA ALL ALONG expands upon the character introduced initially in WANDAVISION and leans into other forms of witches worldwide. As Agatha forms her coven, there are references to the occult, with many occult images throughout the first two episodes. Perhaps more concerning than the series’ depiction of witch activity is the nonchalant attitude towards the occult. The show doesn’t know if it should lean wholly into the darkness of the witch’s powers or treat them as a joke. Such occult beliefs are evil. God warns us about them in the Bible. Occult imagery aside, the script is lackluster, and the first two episodes have little to no redeeming qualities. MOVEGUIDE® advises discerning viewers to skip AGATHA ALL ALONG, altogether.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Strong occult worldview, the series follows a witch trying to regain her powers, to do so she forms a coven, characters recite spells, there many occult artifacts and images throughout, such a pentagrams, locks of hair, rabbits, physic palm readers, tarot cards, mentions of potions, and other various forms of magic;

Foul Language:
One character uses “Christ” as an exclamatory comment, another says “OMG”, Agatha tells her boss, “eat my a” and at another point she calls a group of witches the “b” word”, in general Agatha is mean to everyone around her;

Violence:
In the first episode a dead body is found, the crash is not shown but they talk at length about the possible causes of the death, a teen is hit by a car after running from the police, a woman cuts another woman with a knife in the chest and on the hand, blood is shown, the woman then licks up her blood, witches use their power to break into house and throw characters against walls; Alcohol Use/Abuse: No alcohol abuse, two characters drink beer;

Sex:
No depicted sex, the one male character central to the plot is shown to be in a homosexual relationship;

Nudity:
Once the spell is broken, Agatha walks around town naked, her hair covers most of the frontal nudity, or it is partially blurred or blocked, however, there is full rear nudity, she is fully nude for a surprisingly long time;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
None; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
In the first two episodes, there is no moral center, Agatha is an evil witch who loses her powers, and she tries to regain them, the series does not contain any moral characters to root for.

More Detail:

AGATHA ALL ALONG is a Marvel mini-series streaming on Disney+. In the first episode of Season 1, a detective named Agnes investigates a strange homicide in the small town of Westview. She doesn’t feel like herself, but the stress of the case keeps her from getting to the bottom of what’s bothering her.

However, when an FBI agent shows up to help with the case, Agnes swears she recognizes the agent and hates her. Despite this realization, she accepts the help. While talking with the FBI agent, a teen attempts to rob Agnes’ house and chants a spell during the interrogation. The spell weakens a past spell that bound Agnes’ mind to a made-up reality. She remembers she’s a famous witch, Agatha Harkness, and the FBI Agent is one of the many trying to kill her. The episode ends with her discovering she lives in Westview, the created world of Wanda Maximoff, first introduced in WANDAVISION, and she’s lost her power.

In Episode 2 of Season 1, Agatha and the teen boy hatch a plan to open the gate to the Witches’ road. Agatha warns the boy of the potential danger that could lead to his death, but she soon realizes it’s the only way to regain her powers. Together, they gather a coven of witches to open the gate to the road. But with the Salem Seven hot on their trail, they must be quick.

AGATHA ALL ALONG has a much darker tone than the previous Marvel series. While this is partly due to the subject matter of an old Salem witch trying to regain her power, it also contains more mature foul language. The language in the first two episodes includes several profanities, including “Christ” and “Oh my God.” There are also some harsh obscenities, such as Agatha calling the group of witches the “B” word and telling her boss, “Eat my a.”

However, the language in the series is the least concerning part of the show. In many instances, the show struggles to balance presenting the witches and the occult elements as truly dark elements, cracking jokes about the occult and showing characters being nonchalant about their evil actions.

Unfortunately, this Disney-edification of the occult in this series only serves to treat something that should be cause for concern flippantly and spoon-feed it to unassuming viewers. Unlike WANDAVISION, AGATHA ALL ALONG fails to have any redeeming qualities, either to the main characters or to the motive and purpose behind Agatha’s obsession with gaining back her occult powers. This series serves as the perfect example of mainstream media normalizing the occult.

Marvel does create a unique atmosphere for AGATHA ALL ALONG, which is refreshingly void of over-the-top CGI sequences. However, the script and acting are so over the top that the series is difficult to watch, even when disregarding the occult elements. The first two episodes of Season 1 provide no greater moral purpose or character to root for. The show only offers a very shallow group of characters helping a dark witch regain her evil powers.

Once again, Disney doesn’t present a proper biblical theology about witchcraft and the occult. As with all sin, dabbling in the occult is rebellion against God and, ultimately, demonic.

Deuteronomy 18:10-12: “There shall not be found among you anyone who. . . practices divination, or a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or one who casts spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.”

While there is no graphic violence and few frightening images of witches, MOVEGUIDE® advises discerning viewers to skip AGATHA ALL ALONG, altogether.



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