Alright… let’s discuss Marvel and the way they’re messing up with Agatha All Alongside.
Effectively, if we’re being trustworthy, there are a number of issues Marvel hasn’t been tremendous nice with currently. It has felt like there actually isn’t an actual path for the story. We now have just a few upcoming Marvel motion pictures that persons are enthusiastic about, such because the long-awaited The Implausible 4: First Steps and the new Thunderbolts*, however there are many different points plaguing the studio that I feel are making issues fully too sophisticated.
A type of is what Marvel is doing with Agatha All Alongside. Whereas it’s been marketed as a miniseries, it’s entered into awards consideration as a comedy sequence as a substitute of a restricted sequence, which might result in many believing {that a} Season 2 for the present is perhaps potential.
Nevertheless, it’s been repeated repeatedly that there aren’t plans for a Season 2, although it feels as if the Agatha All Alongside finale actually led us to extra questions than solutions. Heck, even Kathryn Hahn has stated she’s not executed taking part in Agatha, however what which means, I’m unsure. I actually don’t perceive what Marvel is doing with this present, however all I can suppose is that it’s a mistake.
Something To Do With Magic – And Wanda – Has Been A Enormous Hit
As somebody who’s perpetually on-line, do you wish to know what’s been going nicely in the previous few years with the MCU? Magic and the Marvel multiverse.
Most Marvel motion pictures that discover these classes have made a ton of cash or acquired loads of views, and most have gotten nice evaluations. Spider-Man: No Means Residence was clearly an enormous hit, and Deadpool & Wolverine was additionally a significant smash for the studio. However what lots of people neglect about is that Wanda Maximoff (the Scarlet Witch) actually was a driving power behind this universe again in 2021 and 2022, and that included Agatha.
Positive, Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity was profitable when it first got here out, and Benedict Cumberbatch is great within the position, however many individuals went to see that film due to Wanda. We had been all watching WandaVision and theorizing for hours on finish, and after we lastly acquired to see her use her magic once more, it was like our love was restored.
I nonetheless love that film, and it’s clear that loads of different individuals did, too, with the practically $1 billion {dollars} it made on the field workplace. Nevertheless it’s not simply Wanda and her magic – or actually any magic – that brings individuals in. It’s Agatha as nicely.
In response to The Hollywood Reporter, the ultimate two episodes of Agatha All Alongside introduced in 744 million minutes of viewing for Disney+, which is a enormous hit. The present itself was extremely fashionable on-line. Heck, even “The Ballad of the Witch’s Street” earned thousands and thousands of views on YouTube. The fanfare behind Agatha All Alongside was enormous. And but, it appears that evidently after this sequence, there’s no continuation.
Agatha Herself Has Developed A Enormous Following
I do know that many individuals thought it was the silliest factor on the earth to middle a narrative on a aspect character from WandaVision after they first heard of this present. However reality be advised, there’s an enormous following round Agatha now.
I don’t know what most of us had been anticipating after we came upon that there could be an Agatha present, however to me, I do know it was not what we got. I’m certain most had been considering this was simply one other foolish sequence with Agatha getting as much as her outdated methods and never a deeply private story of who she was and the way she grew to become the witch that she is now.
We didn’t count on there to be such deep and significant love tales blended in with witchcraft that actually knocked our socks off, or tales about ladies who’ve been pushed down their whole lives and are simply now preventing again to regain their energy. Loads is occurring for her and for this present that different Marvel TV exhibits don’t do, and the fan response is evident proof of that.
The Creator “Doesn’t Do” Second Seasons, However There Was So A lot Room Left To Discover With The Finale
Patti LuPone, who performed Lilia in Agatha All Alone, revealed in a Sirius XM podcast with Andy Cohen that there aren’t any plans for a Season 2 as a result of the creator, Jac Schaeffer, doesn’t do Season 2’s.
And wow, I’m sorry, however the finale left a lot up within the rattling air.
How will you say that you just don’t do Season 2’s while you orchestrated and created a finale that made us theorize and marvel what occurs subsequent? I might be alright with this if it had been a WandaVision finale state of affairs – we already knew we had been going to see her within the subsequent Physician Unusual movie, so I used to be okay with us not figuring out the whole lot about her.
However we actually don’t know what’s going to occur to Agatha or Billy. I do know that we’re purported to get a Imaginative and prescient Quest present (each time that comes out) that can allegedly contain Tommy, however I don’t understand how Billy and Agatha would tie into that in any respect, other than perhaps them searching for the previous’s brother.
Fact be advised, we need to see this unusual pairing. We wish to see one other journey with them. And never solely that, however what about Jennifer? She’s simply alive and randomly on the market? The place did she go? What’s she going to do together with her powers now? I want these questions answered.
To deal with us with this a lot to investigate, with no set plan of what to do subsequent, is messy at finest and lazy at worst, and that angers me.
The Sequence Itself Supplied Effectively-Finished Illustration
That is one of the best illustration of something Marvel has executed in years, and I stand by that. We not solely had an overtly homosexual protagonist with Billy, however the story of Rio (Demise) and Agatha was one thing I significantly wasn’t anticipating. It was deep, significant and heartfelt in a approach that shocked me with how a lot I linked with it afterward.
It’s not even simply them. This forged is principally made up of badass feminine actors who’re additionally all completely different ages and ethnicities, and that’s freaking. Superior.
I’m not saying that the whole lot in Marvel has to have illustration like this, however the truth that it was executed so nicely and integrated usually right into a present like this makes me smile, and it was a superb opportunity for Marvel to essentially embrace it.
The World Of Magic Has Barley Been Explored In The MCU, And This May Have Been The Likelihood To Dive A lot Deeper
We’ve had WandaVision and the Physician Unusual motion pictures, and I suppose you may additionally depend Loki in a approach together with his powers, in addition to Agatha All Alongside. However other than that, we actually know not that a lot about magic on the earth of the MCU. We all know that it may be darkish and controlling and highly effective and terrifying and the whole lot else underneath the solar, however we haven’t seen its full power.
This present would have been an effective way to discover it extra. We’d have been capable of see Billy discover who he’s as he grows extra highly effective and be taught extra about Agatha—there may have been a lot extra. Having it in a tv present would have been an effective way to gauge how a lot individuals would like to see it in theaters, and magic has all the time been doing nicely.
So why not proceed? Why not leap proper into the portal of magic and throw Marvel followers right into a world of chaos and sorcery? That is the sort of present we’d like. I don’t know what sort of future these characters have, and I actually hope that, one way or the other they’re able to seem extra within the MCU. If that is the final we see of them collectively in this sort of present, I suppose I’ll take care of it.
However there’s a lot magic to find, and now Marvel isn’t even taking the leap; it must open the pages of these spell books and forged a attraction on the world of superhero followers. There’s nonetheless rather a lot to look ahead to with Marvel, however I want that magic and Agatha All Alongside would even be part of it.