What If...?: What If... Agatha Went to Hollywood?
December 23, 2024 7:16 PM - Season 3, Episode 2 - Subscribe
Hollywood meets Bollywood in a powerhouse production play for power that could change the world... if not the universe.
The first episode in this season didn't thrill me, because I'm not that much into mecha or kaiju, but this one did, not only for bringing in Kathryn Hahn close on the heels of Agatha All Along, but also for bringing in Kumail Nanjiani, whose character Kingo was in Eternals (and mentioned in the Ms. Marvel series), and, lo and behold, actually doing something interesting with the Eternals, which movie didn't do well critically or commercially. Someone who tried to use Wanda Maximoff as a battery probably wouldn't hesitate to do the same with a nascent Celestial, and having Howard Stark (getting more into the Howard Hughes groove) and Jarvis be part of the production makes sense. And the visuals are just gorgeous.
They're putting these episodes out once a day, so I may not be able to do tomorrow's through Xmas, so if someone else wants to do them, that's fine, otherwise I'll catch up later.
The first episode in this season didn't thrill me, because I'm not that much into mecha or kaiju, but this one did, not only for bringing in Kathryn Hahn close on the heels of Agatha All Along, but also for bringing in Kumail Nanjiani, whose character Kingo was in Eternals (and mentioned in the Ms. Marvel series), and, lo and behold, actually doing something interesting with the Eternals, which movie didn't do well critically or commercially. Someone who tried to use Wanda Maximoff as a battery probably wouldn't hesitate to do the same with a nascent Celestial, and having Howard Stark (getting more into the Howard Hughes groove) and Jarvis be part of the production makes sense. And the visuals are just gorgeous.
They're putting these episodes out once a day, so I may not be able to do tomorrow's through Xmas, so if someone else wants to do them, that's fine, otherwise I'll catch up later.
It helped a lot that they actually committed to the dance number/fight a lot more than they did for the previous episode's set pieces. And I liked that Stark knew that Agatha was a witch and didn't care.
Agatha used the same gambit that she fell for in Wandavision, which I thought was odd. And I've seen people complain that her not killing the Eternals seemed out of character. Still this was a lot more focused and FUN than the previous episode.
posted by Spike Glee at 9:21 AM on December 24 [1 favorite]
Agatha used the same gambit that she fell for in Wandavision, which I thought was odd. And I've seen people complain that her not killing the Eternals seemed out of character. Still this was a lot more focused and FUN than the previous episode.
posted by Spike Glee at 9:21 AM on December 24 [1 favorite]
her not killing the Eternals seemed out of character
Agatha kills people by sucking out their life force, leaving them a dead empty husk. If you’re a robot, I suppose you couldn’t be killed that way; you could just be plugged into a wall outlet and recharged.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 9:28 AM on December 24 [1 favorite]
Agatha kills people by sucking out their life force, leaving them a dead empty husk. If you’re a robot, I suppose you couldn’t be killed that way; you could just be plugged into a wall outlet and recharged.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 9:28 AM on December 24 [1 favorite]
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posted by jedicus at 6:03 AM on December 24 [3 favorites]