Agatha
Disney
On Monday we got our first trailer for Agatha All Along, perhaps an ill-conceived concept for potential viewership on Disney Plus, but one that features a talented cast from the hilarious Kathryn Hahn to the enigmatic Aubrey Plaza.
The show appears to be trying to hide its concept, but everything from its casting to its trailer are screaming the same thing:
This series is about resurrecting Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch. Or at least some version of her.
From the start, we knew that Joe Locke would be playing Wiccan, Maximoff’s son who was “imagined” in WandaVision, but appears very real here. The show, for whatever reason, is playing it coy, not calling him Billy Maximoff (now Billy Kaplan) but just “Teen” in the synopsis. But Variety has confirmed that of course, he’s Wiccan.
The trailer opens with Hahn, who has forgotten Agatha altogether and is now a police detective, finding Wanda dead in the woods of “blunt force trauma.” Wanda was allegedly crushed to death as the main villain of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but it always felt pretty obvious that either A) wasn’t permanent or B) wasn’t how it looked.
Multiverse of Madness
MCU
But she may be dead, transported here…somehow. But it very much seems clear the main plot of Agatha All Along will be resurrecting her. I mean, read the official synopsis.
“In Agatha All Along, the infamous Agatha Harkness finds herself down and out of power after a suspicious goth Teen helps her break free from a distorted spell. Her interest is piqued when he begs her to take him on the legendary Witches’ Road, a magical gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards a witch with what they’re missing. Together, Agatha and this mysterious Teen pull together a desperate coven, and set off down, down, down The Road.”
Huh, I wonder what a mysterious Teen (I love how they capitalize that) named Billy Maximoff with a dead mother might be “missing” that he wants back? Hmm? Hmmmmm? I mean, come on.
WandaVision
Disney Plus
I assume the idea is that all the witches in the coven want something they’re missing as well. I suspect Agatha wants the full extent of her power back, and perhaps she believes if she brings Wanda back to life she can…take it? That’s moving more into speculation, but it does seem like there’s a zero percent chance this show is focused on anything else.
Well, I’ll give it maybe a 10% chance that Billy could be missing his brother, Tommy, later known as Speed, and wanting to find him/make him real. But even if that’s true, there’s no chance Wanda won’t be involved.
I’m certainly interested in the show. I predict it will be Disney Plus’s least-watched production so far, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be good (its current least-watched is Ms. Marvel, arguably one of its best shows). And above all else, I am looking forward to seeing Elizabeth Olsen back as Wanda, in some form or another, by the end.
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