AGATHA ALL ALONG Arrives On Rotten Tomatoes With One Of Marvel Television's Worst Scores

AGATHA ALL ALONG Arrives On Rotten Tomatoes With One Of Marvel Television's Worst Scores

Despite glowing social media reactions and reviews which initially appeared largely positive, Agatha All Along's Rotten Tomatoes score, while Fresh, leaves it with some dubious company. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Sep 19, 2024 07:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Agatha: Coven of Chaos

UPDATE: Agatha All Along is now "Certified Fresh" at 79%, tying it with She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.


As we write this, more than 50 verdicts for Agatha All Along have been counted on Rotten Tomatoes and that means an all-important Tomatometer score has been generated by the review aggregator. 

Despite receiving overwhelmingly positive social media reactions, critics appear a tad more divided as the WandaVision follow-up sits at an okay 69%. Interestingly, more than 500 fans have chimed in on the "Popcornmeter" and given Agatha All Along a much higher 78% score.

With 69%, the latest Marvel Television series to hit Disney+ finds itself sandwiched between Secret Invasion (52%) and Echo (70%). 

In contrast, WandaVision has 92% and remains one of the MCU's highest-rated streaming offerings, beaten only by Ms. Marvel (98%) and X-Men '97 (99%). 

With Agatha All Along planned as a standalone limited series, neither reviews nor viewership are likely to have a major impact on Marvel Studios' future plans. The WandaVision story will continue with Vision and we'd bet on Agatha Harkness playing at least a supporting role in future projects like Midnight Suns and the long-rumoured Scarlet Witch feature.

In our review of the series, we concluded by saying, "A spooky, scintillating, supernatural delight, Agatha All Along is a worthy successor to WandaVision and a showcase for the bewitching Kathryn Hahn as your new MCU favourite, Agatha Harkness."

Stay tuned for more on Agatha All Along as we have it and click here to see what the two-part premiere reveals about the Scarlet Witch's MCU status.

In Agatha All Along, the infamous Agatha Harkness finds herself down and out of power after a suspicious goth Teen helps break her free from a distorted spell. Her interest is piqued when he begs her to take him on the legendary Witches' Road, a magical gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards a witch with what they’re missing.

Together, Agatha and this mysterious Teen pull together a desperate coven, and set off down, down, down The Road. 

The series stars Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Maria Dizzia, Paul Adelstein, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Okwui Okpokwasili, with Debra Jo Rupp, with Patti LuPone, and Aubrey Plaza.

The executive producers are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Mary Livanos and Jac Schaeffer, who is also the head writer and directed three episodes. Rachel Goldberg and Gandja Monteiro each direct three episodes of the original live-action series.

The first two episodes of Agatha All Along are now streaming on Disney+. 

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ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 9/19/2024, 7:39 AM
This will make ProfessorWhy cry 😢
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 9/19/2024, 7:49 AM
@ElricReturns - I'm pretty sure they/thems parents are the ones who did that. Everything else just triggers that old trauma, and we all get to deal with it and normalize it.
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 9/19/2024, 10:31 AM
@ElricReturns - lol
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/19/2024, 7:39 AM
Wait, Ms. Marvel has 98%? Didn't knew that many critics liked it. Same with some of the movies. Surprises me how high the scores are
Wallywest001
Wallywest001 - 9/19/2024, 7:43 AM
@bkmeijer1 - yep critics loved it. Fans not so much. Less than 750k watched the premier in the first 2 weeks. That’s incredibly low.
supermanrex
supermanrex - 9/19/2024, 9:30 AM
@bkmeijer1 - you are surprised because you are trained to just follow the hate clickable trolling comments as gospel. people did really like ms marvel. the villains sucked but i hope it gets another season with a bad ass villain.
SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 9/19/2024, 10:28 AM
@bkmeijer1 - Ms Marvel had its charm, but I’d give it like a 6/10. But I also didn't feel like the target audience. It felt more teen-oriented, which is fine. But not my cup of tea.

I also thought the last few episodes were so-so, from a storytelling perspective. Just didn’t land for me at all.
SDCA27
SDCA27 - 9/19/2024, 11:12 AM
@Wallywest001 - really do ratings on the steaming services matter? Subscriptions per
Month matter. D plus has 158 million. Multiply that times let’s call it an average of like 8 bucks a month. They’re cleaning up
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 9/19/2024, 1:09 PM
@bkmeijer1 - tv shows arent judged as harsh as movies. they have the ability to improve down the road so its quite hard to get a poor review even divisive shows with a lot of hate will usually score fresh thats why i dont watch tv shows unless it really interests me.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/19/2024, 1:15 PM
@supermanrex - I don't follow the hate train though. I did enjoy it a lot too.

Like @SheepishOne said, it did have it's charm. I just didn't knew it was liked that much in general.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/19/2024, 1:54 PM
@mastakilla39 - and aren't reviews based on just a few episodes? It's never really feels representative imo
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 9/19/2024, 6:22 PM
@bkmeijer1 - it differs by studio. some get 1st 4 episodes, 1st half, or the whole season. amazon and hbo usually gives the critics the whole season to review and disney usually only gives them the 1st 4 episodes. its still the same though, critics are still more lenient on tv shows. Tv shows are still just considered fillers for the day or week so if you meet the bare minimum of interesting characters or plot then you automatically get a passing score.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/20/2024, 7:21 AM
@mastakilla39 - true. I judge them more easily as well because of that, so makes sense
NathimusPrime
NathimusPrime - 9/21/2024, 1:16 AM
@SheepishOne - I really liked it when it started, I liked the characters and the charm, but I was losing interest by the end and I don't think I even watched the last episode.
Reginator
Reginator - 9/19/2024, 7:48 AM
hahn as your new MCU favorite? WTF is he smoking?
cubichy
cubichy - 9/19/2024, 7:51 AM
No one wanted this, will tank huge, worse than marvels, its a tertiary character no one knows or cares about.
grendelthing
grendelthing - 9/19/2024, 8:22 AM
@cubichy - Tertiary? You mean like Guardians of the Galaxy, Moon Knight or Werewolf by Night? Just because YOU aren't interested doesn't mean other people aren't. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two episodes and know a lot of other people did too.

One of the things I always liked about comics was all of the smaller characters side stories. Those weren't always the big sellers but they had their fans. I like that Marvel is exploring these smaller avenues. Yes, they definitely need to up the quality in many cases but I don't think this is one of them. Just because something isn't for you doesn't mean it isn't for anyone.
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 9/19/2024, 8:44 AM
@grendelthing - i get it, but I think it’s just a matter of good story telling. Few people knew about the GOTG, but Gunn is a good story teller and knows how to humanize those characters.

It’s becoming more and more apparent what a corporate show looks like vs someone who wants to tell a compelling story.

This show has some cookie cutter writing imo and that seems to be why many have lost interest.
cubichy
cubichy - 9/19/2024, 8:44 AM
@grendelthing - it's not just that I don't like it, its comic book héroes, magic has been done to death, scarlet wich, strange, this is way too into the weeds into magic,why? There's no one asking for this, it's takes away from the other better IPs.they can remake the defenders, Rick Jones, war machine, secondary around the avengers, not tertiary off of wanda, wich herself is barely secondary in the comics. This will be the least watch show ever, until iron heart arrives.
grendelthing
grendelthing - 9/19/2024, 8:59 AM
@cubichy - Yeah, and the Armor Wars/Iron Heart/Rick Jones stuff doesn't peak my interest all that much. I'll still watch them, but unless they do something really impressive, I doubt I will get that excited.
TheCoonII
TheCoonII - 9/19/2024, 10:00 AM
@grendelthing - in 2022 anything having to do with wandavision would have been eaten up! I swear to Christ this fanbase is bipolar or something
SDCA27
SDCA27 - 9/19/2024, 11:18 AM
@cubichy - dude you’re literally posting on a site called comic book movie and said comic book heroes have been done to death
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