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Amy West

Agatha All Along sneaks a lesbian love story into a spooky superhero show – and breaks ground for the MCU

Aubrey Plaza and Kathryn Hahn in Marvel's Agatha All Along.

Well, it's official, Kathryn Hahn's Agatha Harkness and Aubrey Plaza's mysterious Rio Vidal were canonically lovers prior to the events of Agatha All Along. While the premiere teased their romantic connection ("It's black, and it beats for you"), the fourth episode outright confirmed it, with upper thigh strokes, Rio telling the coven that she once betrayed a woman she loved, and the pair sharing an almost-kiss in private – and it's not something I ever expected to see in the Marvel Cinematic Universe...

As a queer, longtime fan of the franchise, I'd kind of given up on the idea of it representing people like me beyond a throwaway line or moment, like Loki saying he likes a "bit of both" in his Disney Plus show, Nikki dating app-swiping on men and women in She-Hulk, and Phastos' blink-and-you'll-miss-him husband in Eternals. Hell, I'm still not over Tessa Thompson promising that newly appointed Asgardian king Valkyrie would find a queen in Thor: Love and Thunder, only for that to be reduced to her drunkenly telling Korg that her ex-girlfriend died fighting Hela. (Worse, too, because Thor: Ragnarok had already hinted at this with a slow-mo flashback, but apparently it wasn't okay to make it explicit back then).

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