- Launching on Disney Plus in mid-September
- First of two planned WandaVision spin-offs
- Official trailers revealed in July and August
- Kathryn Hahn returns as Agatha Harkness
- Other cast members revealed
- Plot synopsis and other story details unveiled
- No word on how it'll impact other MCU projects
- Marvel has provided a positive update on Agatha Harkness' MCU future
The witching hour is upon us. Agatha All Along, is set to debut on Disney Plus tonight (September 18), so there's no time like the present to quickly learn everything you need to know about the forthcoming Marvel TV series.
Below, we've rounded up all of the spellbinding news and cackle-worthy rumors we could find about the first of two planned WandaVision spin-offs. That includes a cauldron's worth of information like its release date, official cast roster, plot specifics, and how the Marvel Phase 5 show may set up future Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies and TV series.
Major spoilers for WandaVision and potential spoilers for Agatha All Along follow, so don't *ahem* witch and moan that we didn't warn you.
Agatha All Along release date
This witch is back for more 😏Marvel Television’s #AgathaAllAlong, streaming September 18 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/QPlcq2BGhiAugust 10, 2024
Agatha All Along will arrive on Wednesday, September 18 (US) and Thursday, September 19 (UK and Australia). Marvel confirmed Agatha All Along's release date alongside Daredevil: Born Again and Ironheart's 2025 launch dates during Disney's Upfronts 2024 presentation in May.
When will Agatha All Along episode 1 arrive on Disney Plus?
6PM is the new witching hour 🔮✨Don’t miss the two-episode premiere of #AgathaAllAlong September 18 at 6PM PT/9PM ET on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/iBXt8u4FbjSeptember 13, 2024
Depending on where you live, Agatha All Along will make its enchanting debut on Disney Plus with a two-episode premiere on the previously mentioned dates.
As for when the rest of the dark comedy musical show will arrive on one of the world's best streaming services, here's its full release schedule, which includes a world-first for a Marvel project as it'll wrap up with a two-episode finale in time for Halloween.
- Agatha All Along episode 1 – September 18 (US); September 19 (UK/Australia)
- Agatha All Along episode 2 – September 18 (US); September 19 (UK/Australia)
- Agatha All Along episode 3 – September 25 (US); September 26 (UK/Australia)
- Agatha All Along episode 4 – October 2 (US); October 3 (UK/Australia)
- Agatha All Along episode 5 – October 9 (US); October 10 (UK/Australia)
- Agatha All Along episode 6 – October 16 (US); October 17 (UK/Australia)
- Agatha All Along episode 7 – October 23 (US); October 24 (UK/Australia)
- Agatha All Along episode 8 – October 30 (US); October 31 (UK/Australia)
- Agatha All Along episode 9 – October 30 (US); October 31 (UK/Australia)
Agatha All Along trailer
Agatha All Along's official trailer was one of nine big Disney Plus announcements made during D23 Expo 2024. It gave us a better idea of the spook-filled adventures that Agatha's assembled coven will embark on, not to mention the uneasy alliances that'll be at play. So, don't be surprised if there are betrayals along the way to – and on – the Witches' Road.
Its final trailer arrived one month after the series' first was released in late July, which confirmed Agatha will spend its premiere breaking out of the reality-warped spell that Wanda Maximoff placed her in during WandaVision's finale, before she forms her own coven of misplaced magic wielders.
Agatha All Along cast: confirmed and rumored
Full spoilers follow for WandaVision. Potential Agatha All Along spoilers are also discussed.
Here's the confirmed cast list for Agatha All Along so far:
- Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness
- Aubrey Plaza as Rio Vidal
- Joe Locke as Teen
- Patti LuPone as Lilia Calderu
- Sasheer Zamata as Jennifer Kale
- Ali Ahn as Alice Wu-Gulliver
- Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon Davies
- Emma Caulfield Ford as Sarah Proctor
- David Lengel as Harold Proctor
- David Payton as John Collins
- Asif Ali as Alibash Tandon
- Paul Adelstein as Jeff Kaplan
- Maria Dizzia as Rebecca Kaplan
- Miles Gutierrez-Riley as Eddie, Teen's boyfriend
- Kate Forbes as Evanora Harkness
- Okwui Okpokwasili as Vertigo, the Salem Seven's leader
The first six character (minus Teen), plus Forbes' Evanora and Okpokwasili's Vertigo, are dark magic wielders. Meanwhile, the quintet from Rupp to Ali reprise their WandaVision roles as Westview residents who were trapped in the New Jersey town by Wanda Maximoff.
Of the named magic users, Forbes' Evanora, LuPone's Lilia, and Plaza's Rio are the only ones with ties to Hahn's Agatha. Evanora is Agatha's mom and the leader of the Harkness coven of witches, who appeared in WandaVision episode 8's 1693-set sequence. Agatha killed Evanora during that scene, so the latter's appearance here will likely be in another flashback. Meanwhile, Lilia is a 450-year-old Sicilian witch who can see into the future, while Rio is a warrior witch who, in the comics, is Agatha's on-off love interest.
According to LuPone (per Entertainment Weekly (EW)), Locke's Teen is a Familiar, aka an individual with supernatural abilities. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Locke claims that's his character's real name, but this seems to be a front to his real identity, which we believe to be Billy, i.e. one of Wanda's sons who's somehow been reborn.
Billy's likely presence in Agatha All Along has generated plenty of discussion among Marvel fans because, well, he died (read: disintegrated) in WandaVision alongside twin brother Tommy. The pair were the fabricated offspring of Wanda and Vision (he was also a make-believe version of the deceased synthezoid that a grief-stricken Wanda created following Vision's death in Avengers: Infinity War). But, if Agatha's Billy is the same Billy we saw in WandaVision, that raises questions about how he survived.
Billy, Agatha, Rio, Evanora, and Lilia will be joined on the dark magic-wielding front by two other magic users: Ahn's Alice and Zamata's Kale. In the comics, the latter is a a sorceress who's part of another mystical group known as the Cult of Zhered-Na, but her origin story has likely been altered for this series. A rival witch faction called The Salem Seven will appear and be led by Okpokwasili's Vertigo, too and it seems this gang has been teased in a couple of recent TV spots.
Lastly, there's speculation that Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda could also unexpectedly cameo, depending on how the story plays out. Speaking of which (or should that be speaking of witch)...
Agatha All Along story synopsis and speculation
Major spoilers follow for WandaVision. Potential Agatha All Along spoilers are also discussed.
Here's the show's official plot synopsis: "In Agatha All Along, the infamous Agatha Harkness finds herself down and out of power after a suspicious goth Teen helps break her 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…"
Before we get into mild spoiler territory, the show's cast and crew have provided additional clues on its narrative. Speaking on the Official Marvel Podcast, Marvel's Head of TV and Streaming Brad Winderbaum provided fresh details on numerous Disney Plus shows, including Agatha All Along, which he labeled as a "Marvel brand of scary" and "a Halloween show... there are deadly stakes in the series, it's a fun ride, but it's a dangerous one."
Elaborating to Rolling Stone, Locke claimed it's full of "magic, fun, and mystery", before adding in an Empire magazine interview that it's akin to Marvel's dark, twisted version of The Goonies. Locke also told Total Film that the series took inspiration from, and even references, classic horror productions, such as Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.
Anyone who's seen WandaVision will know how and why Agatha is trapped in a magical reality, not unlike the one Wanda crafted post-Endgame. But, if you need a refresher, our WandaVision finale deep-dive piece provides more details.
Based on what the previously referenced plot synopsis and trailers, this rumored plot is accurate and Agatha escapes from her fabricated 'nightmare'. In the first teaser, we see Agatha attempting to claw her way out of Wanda's spell. Ordinarily, it would be easy for someone with her power level to do so, but Wanda stripped Agatha of her dark magic abilities in WandaVision episode 9.
Anyway, after seemingly doing so, another Marvel TV spot confirms three years have passed since Agatha was imprisoned in said hex. If we're following the MCU timeline correctly, that means Agatha All Along takes place in 2026.
a witch is nothing without her coven pic.twitter.com/3JMsVQZhNcAugust 10, 2024
As for the "unlikely friends" she'll need to round up to help her regain her abilities, they're the witches we mentioned earlier. Indeed, the depowered enchantress needs to traverse The Witches' Road, a life-threatening plane of existence that only sorcerers can tread. Clearly, Agatha will need to assemble her own coven to not only keep her safe on said journey, but also help her navigate it with their powers and expertise.
Speaking to Empire magazine, showrunner/executive producer Jac Schaeffer confirmed this "disparate, mixed bag of witches", all of whom are "covenless" and self-serving like Agatha, will join the untrustworthy titular character on her quest to get her powers back.
In order to travel to this alternate dimension, Agatha and her bewitching crew might need to employ a classic witch trope. An image (posted on the Scarlet Witch Updates X/Twitter account) from Disney's 2024 Upfronts presentation shows Agatha and company flying on broomsticks. There's no word on whether there'll be, say, a black cat or a cauldron attached to their classic method of transportation, though.
But we digress. There'll be callbacks to previous MCU projects in Agatha All Along, including Doctor Strange 2 and (obviously) WandaVision, and there'll be some musical elements, too. Indeed, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, who penned the hugely popular 'Agatha All Along' from WandaVision episode 7, which stormed the music charts in early 2022, have written new musical numbers for it, one of which – titled 'The Witches' Road' – was performed in full at D23 Expo 2024 (see above). It sounds like it'll be as catchy and earworm-inducing as its WandaVision counterpart, too.
Other story-based rumors have circulated online in the lead-up to the series' launch, but we'll refrain from mentioning any major ones we've seen to preserve some of its biggest mysteries. We don't have long to wait now, so why ruin the fun so close to release?
Will Agatha All Along set up future Marvel movies and TV shows?
It's possible. Marvel is still focused on telling its Multiverse Saga, which began in Phase 4, continues in Phase 5, and ends with Marvel Phase 6. Still, that hasn't stopped the comic giant from branching out and telling standalone tales that have few to no ties to its overarching multiverse narrative.
So, which movies or shows might be spun out of Agatha All Along? There's only one project whose events could be set in motion by it: an untitled, second WandaVision spin-off that'll star Paul Bettany as White Vision, which could arrive sometime in 2026 (per Variety).
If Billy Kaplan is the same one we saw in WandaVision, and if he survives the events of Agatha All Along, we suspect he'll embark on an adventure to track down White Vision – the closest thing he has to Vision, aka his 'birth' father – and/or his twin brother Tommy, to seek their help in finding Wanda, aka Billy and Tommy's mom. She was last seen in Doctor Strange 2, where she seemingly perished after destroying the Darkhold and Mount Wundagore. However, we didn't actually see her die and, given Wanda's popularity among MCU fans, it wouldn't be in the studio's best interests to consign her to the MCU's history books.
There are very few details on this show, but it could very well adapt the 'Avengers: Children's Crusade' comic series, which sees Billy, Tommy, and other members of the Young Avengers search for Wanda/The Scarlet Witch. There's been speculation that a Young Avengers project has been in development for some time at Marvel Studios – if it still is, could it be based on 'Children's Crusade' and be announced post-Agatha All Along?
As for Agatha's own MCU future, Winderbaum admitted there are plans to further explore her journey once her standalone series ends, but not in the way you may expect. "When you have an icon like Kathryn Hahn [and what she] has brought to the screen with Agatha, you just want to see more of her," he told ScreenRant. "So yes, there will be more Agatha in the future [of] the MCU. She is in an episode of What If...? season 3–- I shouldn't say more, but it's one of my favorite episodes ever done, and and it may involve the giant musical number, and she's just incredible, and we all want to see more of her."
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