Marvel’s marketing team got the last laugh. We’ve known for a while now that a show about WandaVision’s nosiest neighbor, Agatha Harkness, was in the works. But the title kept changing, with past iterations including Agatha: The Darkhold Diaries, Agatha: House of Harkness, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, and Agatha: The Lying Witch With a Great Wardrobe. At Disney’s 2024 upfront meeting with advertisers on May 14, it was finally confirmed that the spinoff’s name has been Agatha All Along. What, A:TLWWGW wasn’t catchy enough? Here’s what to know about the show, including who’s in the cast, when it will be summoned onto Disney+, and what magic is underfoot in the trailer.
Who’s in the cast?
Kathryn Hahn will reprise her role as winking witch Agatha Harkness, who has been rendered powerless (for now …) by Wanda Maximoff, though we doubt she’s going to quietly live out the rest of her life as nosy neighbor Agnes. Patti LuPone and Aubrey Plaza are joining Agatha’s coven, while Emma Caulfield will reprise her role as Sarah Proctor (a.k.a. Westview neighborino Dottie). The full cast also includes Heartstopper’s Joe Locke, plus Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Maria Dizzia, Paul Adelstein, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Debra Jo Rupp.
Conjure up the trailer.
The trailer for Agatha: All Along begins with Hahn in full Mare mode, before Plaza breaks her out of the TV pastiche spell of WandaVision. This isn’t like that! No, Agatha: All Along is in the straight-up witch-story vein, like a Marvel-fied version of The Witches of Eastwick. There’s a coven, there are campy line readings by LuPone (“the Witch’s Road is a death wish”), there’s Florence Welch on the soundtrack, and Agatha is even granted a familiar (it’s a twink). Gonna be one campy Halloween season.
Who else is involved?
WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer is back as head writer and executive producer. “I remember Kevin [Feige] saying to me, ‘We really should think about an actual Agatha show,’” she recalled in a WandaVision Blu-ray featurette. “And I was like, ‘Where do I sign for that job?’”
When will it premiere?
The first two episodes of Agatha All Along are due to drop on Disney+ on September 18.
So the title changes were all planned?
It sure seems like it. Based on posts on Marvel and WandaVision’s social-media accounts, this all seems to have been a cheeky way of building Agatha’s reputation as the one who’s “been messing up everything.”
It was Agatha All Along 🔮
Don’t miss the two-episode premiere of #AgathaAllAlong, September 18 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/hwPSOeJFv6
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) May 14, 2024The WandaVision Instagram account has posted, joking about all the Agatha All Along logo’s over the years !!! pic.twitter.com/u8v3nv2vnb
— Agatha Harkness News (@AgathaHNews) May 14, 2024Is Agatha going to sing another song?
Well, LuPone did tell Deadline that the show is a “musical.” We don’t know. But God, we hope so.
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