‘Agatha, Who Else?’ doesn’t force viewers to do Marvel homework. And that’s why it’s working so well.

As always happens with Marvel productions on Disney+, any apparent success of the platform must be taken with a grain of salt, due to the obscurity that the platform exercises with its releases, and which makes It is impossible to know if a series is doing well or badly, unless there are sudden renewals or sudden cancellations.as happened with ‘The Acolyte’. But if opinions on social networks and the press count, I would say that the results are very positive, with consistent scores on platforms as Rotten Tomatoeswhere it has won 80% of the press and 81% of the users.

Although it remains to be seen how this sort of approach that mixes ‘The Wizard of Oz’ with pop witchcraft and soft folk horror will develop (we’ve seen four here and the truth is that at least half of it maintains the interesting starting point), as we already mentioned at its premiere, the result is stimulating. We pointed out that it distanced itself from the usual Marvel codes: there is no depressing redemption story, with dark pasts and tormented antiheroes.

The tone is closer to ‘Ms. Marvel’ or ‘She-Hulk: Hulka Advocate’ not only because of the female lead, but also because You don’t need to “do your homework” to enjoy this series. There’s no need to keep track of all the deaths and resurrections that have occurred and will occur in the recent MCU, which is certainly relaxing for the casual viewer. Of course, you need to have seen ‘Wandavision’, but ‘Agatha’ does not hide its status as a sequel at any time. It is the only precedent to pay attention to.

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The idea that the MCU was an interconnected whole was one of its great attractions until that catalogue of references that, however, worked perfectly and that was ‘Endgame’. From there the narrative trick began to limp, and films like ‘Black Widow’, ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’, ‘Quantumania’, ‘The Marvels’ or ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ were below in revenue and impact than other proposals that worked as independent artifacts, such as ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, ‘Shang-Chi’ or ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’.

It is obvious that no matter how much the most radical faction of the fandom complains, the key to success or failure at Marvel It has nothing to do with politics woke or the ghost of forced inclusivityDisney knows this and continues to push different buttons in search of a new goose that lays the golden eggs that will lead to blockbusters like the multi-million dollar phase 3 of the MCU. In this case, it is trying with a series practically disconnected from the rest of Marvel, although the next thing goes in another direction: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’, if it works, could lay the foundations for another renewed style for the franchise.

For the casual observer, someone who approaches Marvel with curiosity but without the desire or time to consume a dozen previous productions, ‘Agatha, who else?’ can be attractive as it presents a fun, effective series that does not hand out fan cards. In a time of absolute parenthesis like the one Marvel is currently experiencing, about to play its future during the next year, it would be better not to leave anyone out.

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