‘Agatha All Along’: Marvel Should Be Ashamed for Wasting All This Talent
‘Agatha All Along’: Marvel Should Be Ashamed for Wasting All This Talent
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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/DisneyWith 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.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/DisneyWith 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.Read more at The Daily Beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/agatha-all-along-review-marvels-shameful-waste-of-female-talent