Exploring the Unique Features of Agatha All Along

Experience the Intriguing World of Agatha All Along

Agatha All Along opens with gritty, wet woodland, as a weary, jaded detective is dragged out into the sticks with her partner to investigate a mysterious Jane Doe found dead on a road. So far, so Mare of Easttown / True Detective / The Killing – delete as appropriate. Yet this isn't Kate Winslet or Jodie Foster, but a sarcastic, weary, frazzled, gum-chewing, burnt-out detective played enthrallingly by Kathryn Hahn, in a show called Agnes of Westview.

A Blend of Humor and Hard-Hitting Crime

Anyone who's seen Hahn's more serious acting chops in I Know This Much Is True knows that she's easily at home with heavier material, and surprisingly this is where Agatha All Along shines the most, just like the light emanating from the fingers of a certain witch. But it's not all hard-nosed crime capers. Relying on wry little touches, it mimics the tropes of those procedurals while harking back to the best moments of televisual parody from WandaVision. From the extended opening credits channelling The Wire's famous music style to the faux source material, the show-within-a-show based on 'The Danish series Wadavisdysen', this is Agatha All Along at its slickest, from the four episodes we've seen so far.

As Tension Mounts, Comedy Takes a Back Seat

Soon, however, Agnes becomes more shrill, more exasperated, and once Aubrey Plaza's mysterious Rio Vidal shows up as an FBI agent, the story begins to melt into something more MCU-y. Agnes harasses a local librarian for information on a mysterious stolen book (the Darkhold) and finds it burnt to a cinder before she interrogates a witness forcefully (Joe Locke), and hits the bottle.