Marvel Studios Been Messing, It’s Been 'Agatha All Along'
It’s such a pity pity pity pity to be played like this, but it’s finally settled what the 'WandaVision' spinoff is callled
Oh Hahn, thanks for playing. After one last fakeout, the perfidious Marvel Studios has officially revealed the title for their WandaVision spinoff Disney+ series starring Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness, and what else could it be but Agatha All Along.
The reveal was announced at Disney’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York, and with it a September 18 premiere date with the first two episodes. Every title was acknowledged, from Agatha: House of Harkness it began as in November 2021, to the Agatha: Coven of Chaos title initially revealed at San Diego Comic-Con in 2022, the Agatha: The Darkhold Diaries reveal of September 2023, and even Monday’s Agatha: The Lying Witch With Great Wardrobe slip from Monday. The prevailing theory is that they’re episode titles but again, I’m not in that camp. The series is of course ultimately named after the viral Emmy-winning song from Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez from WandaVision’s penultimate episode. The September 18 release date makes the filing at the United States Copyright Office pretty accurate, as it was listed for September 19 there.
In addition to Hahn, Agatha All Along also stars Joe Locke as the Familiar (reportedly Billy Kaplan), Patti LuPone as Lilia Calderu, Sasheer Zamata as Jennifer Kale, the returning Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon Davis aka Mrs. Hart under the hex, and Ali Ahn and Maria Dizzia. Other Westview residents including Emma Caulfield Ford as Sarah Proctor, aka "Dottie Jones" within the sitcom, David Lengel as her husband Harold Proctor / "Phil Jones", David Payton as John Collins / "Herb", Asif Ali as Abilash Tandon / "Norm", Amos Glick as the pizza delivery man who was "Dennis" under the Hex, and Kate Forbes as Agatha's mother, Evanora Harkness are all set to make return appearances.
Hahn, Locke, and LuPone attended Disney’s upfront presentation and got to talk about the show, with Hahn boasting “We can say that the coven is strong. We can say that it is hilarious, and deep. And I was moved to work with all these people every day. It was a gratuitous dream that it happened to be this group to go through that together.” She also gave series creator Jac Schaeffer her due, noting that it was important to them for there “to be minimal CGI. There is very little that is not practical magic, which is our magic.” She continued “That was very thrilling. [The] sets were incredible and it was like a practical… it just felt delicious. It was a very immersive experience.”
LuPone confirmed the musical elements and remarked that “the production design and the set dressers, and the lighting, and the costumes, everything about it, it appeared to all of us when we saw it, that everybody on the creative end were at the top of their game.” When they first saw Witches Road she revealed she “burst into tears” adding, “It’s gorgeous to look at on top of it being a fantastic story. It looks like a 100 million dollar movie.”
Episode and season length isn’t quite known yet, but in the first of the two episodes premiering September 18, Agatha manages to free herself from being trapped as her Agnes persona, a containment Wanda had put her in at the end of WandaVision. The description continues “She can’t wait to go back to her old murderous ways, only to find that she is powerless. The only way forward for her is to embark on a perilous quest to get her powers back with the help of an unlikely friend or two.”
