AAA 'Reach/Teach' - Oct 3

Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, so let us talk about this week’s episode about ‘Agatha All Along’ after all.

First, Sharon Hart/Davis is dead, and the coven replaced her with Rio. Sigh. AoS was notorious in how it dealt with its’ deceased characters: when the show needed to, it did a song and dance number, and when it did not, they de-facto just vanished into oblivion. AoS was a hypocritical show, as we have discussed in the long past – and now AAA has arrived. In this week’s episode it is all but revealed, Ms. Hart/Davis was all but a stand-in for Rio – she died so that Rio could arrive on the Witches’ Road in style, so to put it otherwise, AAA has AoS beat, and not in a good way.

In addition: remember Sharon’s probably-not-a-wake, when the coven’s members are pronouncing a list of what the ‘new’ green witch should be, and they get Rio? Does it mean that Rio is all of those things? Really? Given that AAA is her own debut in MCU, this makes Rio Vidal more pretentious than anything else. Does AAA really need this? Pause.

The greater question is, does MCU need AAA? So far, there is no indication just how exactly it is connected to MCU, aside from Wanda’s corpse; given that we have seen Wanda last in the ‘Dr. Strange 2’ film, which played around in the multiverse, AAA can be taking place in alternate timeline from the one, (because Wanda is a nexus being, among her other traits). Given how MCU has quietly put the kibosh on the multiverse after ‘Loki’ the TV series and ‘Ant-Man 3’ the movie, this is not very likely, but still.

Aside from Rio being injected into Agatha’s new coven with all the subtlety of a locomotive, the main goal of this week’s episode (‘Reach/Teach’) was Alice Lu-Gulliver confronting her demons, both metaphorically and literally. This was done well enough, but again, AAA is Ms. Lu-Gulliver’s first appearance in MCU so it’s hard to generate anything for her; the late Sharon Hart/Davis at least had her time in WV before she died here; Agatha and Rio bounce against each other, and TT is probably Billy Kaplan, (Rio tells Agatha that he isn’t her son, so Nick Scratch he apparently is not); but Alice? No one is too impressed over her victory over the demon, who was one of those monsters of the week that come and go with no impact at all. BtVS, in the 90s, had this scheme down to an art form, and proportionally, it was a better show than AAA is all along. Anything else?

No. Somehow, AAA is making much ado about little anything, probably substance. (We are not talking about the movie with the same name – someone else will have to review it entirely). It is fun to watch but little else, and there is no more ties in with the rest of MCU once it left WV and the state of New Jersey entirely. Where will it get from there, to success or disaster, only time will tell.

 

…Therefore, for now, this is it. See you all soon!