Marvel’s latest series, Agatha All Along, an offshoot of WandaVision (itself an offshoot of The Avengers), distills the worst cliches of modern entertainment into an unwatchable slog, dragging what could have been an hour’s worth of plot across nine excruciating episodes.
The story follows Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), a witch stripped of her powers in WandaVision, now on a quest to reclaim her sorcery. Along for the ride is her initially unassuming and unnamed companion, played by Joe Locke. Locke’s character feels like the product of generative artificial intelligence trained on trending TikToks: an overly affected, effeminate, and gay Generation Z archetype who could moonlight as an influencer for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.
