When Marvel announced a spinoff focusing on Agatha Harkness, the “nosy neighbor”-turned-wicked-witch from WandaVision, many fans were skeptical. “The only reason she has a series is because of that stupid song that was trending on social media,” one tweet reads. There is some merit to the criticism: “Agatha All Along,” written by Frozen songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, did become a popular meme for a few weeks in 2021.
But one earworm does not make a spinoff. Agatha All Along, the final name of the show after a long string of fakeout titles, doesn’t have the same status as other Marvel series. It isn’t the setup for a big hero or the prologue to a future movie. It has to prove it is worthy of its own existence.
