This text incorporates spoilers for “Agatha All Alongside.”
Jac Schaeffer’s 2024 TV collection “Agatha All Alongside” stars Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness, a depraved sorceress who serves as a nemesis to the Scarlet Witch. The present is a direct spinoff of 2021’s “WandaVision,” the place the character was first launched. The brand new collection noticed Agatha forming a brand new coven of witches in order that they alongside along with her new teenage sidekick Teen (Joe Locke) may face the trials of the Witches’ Street, a mysterious course of that grants its survivors any want they need. Agatha misplaced her witch powers, so she very a lot wish to have them again. The collection additionally featured Aubrey Plaza because the Rio Vidal aka Demise (who was Agatha’s ex-girlfriend), in addition to dwelling legend, Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, and Debra Jo Rupp.
The reveals from inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been a bit of irritating to viewers, as one can by no means be certain if they’re meant to be long-running collection with new seasons on the horizon, or in the event that they had been designed to be encapsulated miniseries with a particular endpoint. Typically, a Marvel present will not be outlined as a collection or a miniseries till close to the tip of its first season, and even then, a curious seeker must lookup its entry on Wikipedia simply to make certain. As of this writing, “Ironheart,” “Echo,” “Secret Invasion,” “She-Hulk: Lawyer at Regulation,” “Ms. Marvel,” “Moon Knight,” “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” and “WandaVision” are described as miniseries. Solely “Loki,” “What If…?,” and “Daredevil: Born Once more” rely as ongoing reveals. Different upcoming reveals stay up within the air.
“Agatha All Alongside” was additionally declared a miniseries, implying that no “second season” will ever be nigh. This wasn’t a “season one.” This was a nine-episode TV particular. The miniseries was, nonetheless, well-received. “Agatha All Alongside” obtained usually optimistic critiques, with many responding cheerfully to the present’s flippant humor and queerness. Some have even posited that the great critiques may result in a brand new season or a miniseries sequel.
Thus far, nonetheless, a follow-up “Agatha” collection stays within the realm of conjecture.
Why hasn’t an announcement for a follow-up to ‘Agatha All Alongside’ occurred?
The rankings for “Agatha All Alongside” had been very excessive. Varied ranking experiences acknowledged that it was the highest-rated present on Disney+ when it was being launched, and that social media engagement was excessive. It was additionally, not like another Marvel reveals, fashionable all over, retaining the best variety of viewers from the beginning. Everybody’s social media feed is totally different, in fact, so it is arduous to simply accept a present has excessive social engagement when you do not personally see individuals speaking about it, however the numbers had been certainly there.
Critics additionally like “Agatha All Alongside,” and the present obtained an 83% approval ranking on Rotten Tomatoes primarily based on 207 critiques. That is an analogous approval as “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and the unique 1992 “X-Males” animated collection. It is also a sight higher than reveals like “Iron Fist,” “Secret Invasion,” and “Inhumans,” which had been all panned.
It is tough to say what numbers Marvel executives must greenlight second seasons, or what sort of summary qualities a present should possess as a way to be worthy of a follow-up, however no matter these are, “Agatha All Alongside” should not have it. The one trace audiences may need for a follow-up collection is that the present’s makers submitted “Agatha All Alongside” to varied awards our bodies as a “collection” and never a “restricted collection.” The previous time period implies that the door is open for extra, however it may be associated to the actual fact it is a spin-off immediately linked to “WandaVision” which makes the definition of “restricted collection” a bit messier.
With none announcement, although, that is all anybody has to go on.
What has Brad Winderbaum stated a couple of follow-up to ‘Agatha All Alongside?’
The top of streaming for Marvel Studios, a person named Brad Winderbaum, famous on Twitter/X that he would certainly be keen on a second go-round for “Agatha All Alongside,” saying that “I feel all of us wish to see extra adventures in Westview,” the city the place “Agatha” takes place. Though he’s in command of streaming, it isn’t his job to greenlight new reveals, so his assertion was extra an expression of curiosity than any type of official assertion.
Speculations have begun to rise, in fact, positing that among the present’s supporting characters might flip up in future Marvel initiatives. Sadly, nobody’s contracts have been revealed, and no press releases have been given. Audiences are at the moment within the “what if” part, permitting them to invent thrilling new reveals of their head.
Though the Marvel Cinematic Universe remains to be planning on many movies and TV reveals for its future, there is a basic sense that the social gathering is over. Superhero films are, on the whole, bombing extra typically than hitting, and the dialog is not being led by the style as a lot because it was about 4 or 5 years in the past. Certainly, ever since “Avengers: Endgame,” increasingly more MCU films have been tanking or merely getting unhealthy critiques. The huge success of “Deadpool & Wolverine” is now the exception, not the rule. In such an atmosphere, releasing “Agatha All Alongside” was a threat to start with. The truth that it was mildly profitable and comparatively well-reviewed was a “thank our fortunate stars” second, and never a “we’d like this to proceed” second.
The environment on the whole means that there shall be no extra Agatha, until she seems in a unique MCU mission.
