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American television miniseries Agatha All Along is premiering its first two episodes on Disney+ on September 18, followed by a weekly release of the other seven episodes until November 6.
Picking up from the events of WandaVision released in 2021, mischievous witch Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) escapes the town of Westview with the help of a ‘goth’ teen (Joe Locke) with whom she ends up forming a new coven of witches to face the trials of the legendary Witches’ Road.
Despite it deriving from the 2021 series, showrunner Jac Schaeffer revealed that the idea for the antagonist-led dark comedy did not come during the making of WandaVision.
“I tend to not really dream the things that I want more than anything. The idea of doing a spinoff or doing a show on her (Agatha) didn’t happen during WandaVision. But she did do things during WandaVision that made it clear to me that there was so much more story to tell,” Jac added.
Kathryn, who portrays Agatha, also recalled the showrunner hinting her interest to create the spinoff around the time of wrapping WandaVision (November 2020.)
“I remember Jac saying ‘God, I’d love to write for you again’. We both kept saying, ‘we have unfinished business’ to each other at the end of WandaVision. I didn’t know if it necessarily meant something in this world or somewhere else, but our minds melded,” Kathryn said in an interview.
“Then over the summer, I got a call from Louis D’Esposito (Marvel Studios co-president) saying ‘How’d you like your own Marvel show?’ A call you never get. My heart was pounding.”
Additional cast include Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon Davis, Aubrey Plaza as Rio Vidal, Emma Caulfield Ford, Joe Locke, Maria Dizzia, Paul Adelstein, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, and more.
Before the official title reveal, which refers to the song of the same name that the character sings in the seventh episode of WandaVision, the fantasy series has had several different titles announced throughout the promotion campaign.
The series was first announced in 2021 as Agatha: House of Harkness, but was renamed in 2022 to Agatha: Coven of Chaos. The year after, the title Agatha: Darkhold Diaries was revealed.
In May of this year, Marvel Studios released a new logo on social media with the title Agatha: The Lying Witch with Great Wardrobe, but later took down the post.
The next day, Disney finally announced the real title at an upfront presentation, and released a video showing that the constant title change was orchestrated by the main character herself as a way to mess with the fans.
